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Christine Cooks: March 2015
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Monday, March 16, 2015. Tomato Soup With Gruyere and Fried Capers. March: She is a sultry, wanton wench with her come hither. Dance toward Spring as she promises warm breezes and sunny skies then slams the door in your face just as you begin to lose yourself in her lies. And when nothing but tomato soup will do, with nary a sun-ripened tomato in sight, I turn to those delightful tomatoes in a can: San Marzanos. Winter to Spring Tomato Soup with Gruyere and Fried Capers. Or Pacific Organic, Low Sodium.
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Christine Cooks: October 2012
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Monday, October 29, 2012. The Old Wedgewood Ain't What She Used to Be; The New Thermador Cooktop Is All That and More! Although the installation is not quite finished, my sister Cynthia asked for photos of my new cooktop so I am obliging her wishes. As you may notice, the cabinetry around the oven is not finished, but will be soon. This 5-burner cooktop by Thermador. Has a btu range of 400 to 18,000. It totally rocks. And I am totally smitten. See the brown scorch on the wall behind the cooktop? Grilled ...
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Christine Cooks: Basics: Roasted Rich and Robust Chicken Stock
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Saturday, February 5, 2011. Basics: Roasted Rich and Robust Chicken Stock. One of the things that has been missing from this blog from the very start are posts dedicated to the basics: stocks and broths, salad dressings, sweet and savory sauces, gravies, the. Sure, some of those things are embedded within a post about soups or stews, crab cakes, dinner salads, and desserts, but very few are the stars of their own page. So one of my goals this year is to remedy that omission. Herewith is my first. And dri...
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Christine Cooks: Book Review: Breakfast for Dinner
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013. Book Review: Breakfast for Dinner. Eggs poached in tomato sauce) from Breakfast for Dinner. By Lindsay Landis and Taylor Hackbarth. Show of hands, please: How many of you cooks out there, while perusing fridge and pantry for dinner inspiration, come across more breakfast ingredients than dinner ingredients and ask yourselves, surely what's good for breakfast should be just as good for dinner? I'll bet there are many of you. The book is neatly sectioned into categories beginn...
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Christine Cooks: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Vegetarian Hoppin' John For A Prosperous New Year in 2015. Update 12-31-14: I re-made this today to take to a new year's potluck gathering, adding smokey ham and substituting rich chicken stock. I left out the red bell peppers and added 4 diced carrots to the saute. It's rich, earthy, and has a wonderful salty-smokey element from the ham. Happy New Year! Especially in the form of. For my rendition of Hoppin' John, made for a crowd of 18, I started with tubs of. Juice of 2 Me...
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Christine Cooks: September 2014
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014. Oven Slow Roasted Tomatoes. Two weekends, 40 pounds, eight baking sheets, one major f* k-up, and, finally, success! Even as I read and read, and read some more, about slow roasting tomatoes, there are so many different versions out there (right? And even with that I had a few bumps before getting it right. The first bump was just silly: I went to a potluck party while my first batch of tomatoes was merrily roasting away, and roasting away (albeit at 260-degrees), and roasting.
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Christine Cooks: Fresh Peach Ice Cream with Ginger Liqueur and Crystallized Ginger
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Fresh Peach Ice Cream with Ginger Liqueur and Crystallized Ginger. Peaches ripen later on the north coast than in hotter-in-summer parts of the US, which makes July the start of the season for our truly local ones. The peaches pictured below hail from Neukom Family Farm. And may be found these days at local farmers markets. They're sweet, dribble-down-your-chin juicy, and they make a terrific ice cream. And chopped crystallized ginger. 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice. 1 cup 2% milk.
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Christine Cooks: March 2014
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Sunday, March 2, 2014. Gluten Free Pasta: Shrimp in Tomato Cream Sauce. This recipe is a variation on one that I hadn't thought about in years. It appeared in the Sunset Recipe Annual 1988 Edition: Every Sunset Magazine Recipe and Food Article From 1987. That the kernel of a recipe took hold as I vaguely began remembering making a cream and vermouth-based pasta sauce so very many years ago. And how perfect is that for Mardi Gras month? Creole Seasoned Shrimp in Tomato Cream Sauce Over Gluten Free Pasta.
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Christine Cooks: Homemade Creme Fraiche
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Wednesday, November 8, 2006. It seems like such a very long time ago that I put a post on my blog for making creme fraiche. Since then, although the ingredients are still the same (now I use locally produced dairy products) and the method identical, I've changed the measurements which has resulted in a very creamy, silky-textured creme fraiche that I like better than my original. This is so simple to make, I don't know why everyone doesn't have a jar of it setting up on the back of their stove. 1 cup hea...
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