Pizza

From the backlog: 5/8

Pizza with Italian sausage, mushrooms, caramelized onions, and roasted red peppers.

Pizza, again

From the backlog: 4/26

Okay, so I liked this pizza dough recipe so much that I made it again, less than a week later. This time, topped with mushroom, caramelized onion, roasted red pepper, cheese, and basil.

No-Knead Bread

From the backlog: 4/25
Basic loaf from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day.

Pizza

From the backlog: 4/20

I found this Light-As-Air Pizza Dough recipe from the King Arthur Flour website, and it's a winner. It uses some baking powder as well as yeast, so it doesn't take too long to rise. I just whip up a partial batch of dough and then bake on one of my personal-pizza sized baking stones. I think this pizza has roasted red peppers, caramelized red onion, a few anchovies, and basil.

Okay, not the healthiest meal I've ever made (skillet flatbread, zucchini, and broccoli)

From the backlog: 4/17
Flatbread from the recent Minimalist column, sauteed zucchini, and broccoli florets.

Cinnamon Bread

From the backlog: 4/6

I think this was a cinnamon-bread variation of the basic Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day recipe, but I can't quite remember it.

Roasted Eggplant and Tomato Soup & Rosemary Flatbread

From the backlog: 3/27




Roasted Eggplant and Tomato Soup from Simply Recipes and Crisp Rosemary Flatbread from Smitten Kitchen.

The soup was really good - I love the combination of tomatoes, eggplant, and chickpeas - but it did create a lot of dishes.

Flatbread

Wow, really far behind posting!
From the backlog: Wednesday 3/25

I made a quick pan-fried flat bread that I found on a random site with a Google search. I think I wanted to something to serve something (hummus??) with, but heck if I remember.

French Toast Redux

From the backlog: Thursday 3/19

I had some challah left over and decided to whip up some more French toast for a quick breakfast before work. You'll have to trust me that this isn't just another photo from the last time I made French toast. But since I am also my readership, that shouldn't be too hard.

Apple Coffee Cake

Breakfast this morning was an adapted version of this Apple Coffee Cake from Simply Recipes. I made a few changes based on comments on the blog:
- used a smaller pan than the 9-inch square called for, since there were some comments that there wasn't enough cake batter
- used brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, and walnuts for the topping (instead of white sugar and cinnamon)
- used half white whole-wheat flour, because I always try to sub some whole grains when I can


Here's a closeup of that luscious orange, direct from Florida. Boy, was it good.

Valentine's Day Feast - Honey Walnut Bread, Swordfish Kebabs, Baked Apple

Backlog from 2/14:

This year I fended off any possible Valentine's Day depression with a kick-ass dinner and a Battlestar Galactica mini-marathon.

Appetizer: Freshly Baked Honey-Walnut Wheat bread with Goat Cheese Brie
I just made a half-batch of the speedy no-knead bread, substituting white whole wheat flour for half of the bread flour and adding 1 Tbsp honey and about 1/2 cup chopped walnuts.


The entree was swordfish kebabs, based on a recipe in The Fifteen Minute Single Gourmet, borrowed from the library. Swordfish chunks marinated in a soy sauce/tomato paste/honey mixture, then threaded onto skewers alternating with fresh pineapple chunks, onions, and orange sweet pepper, and broiled to juicy perfection. The main course was rounded out with leftover brown rice and sauteed green beans garnished with pine nuts.


And for the finale - a baked apple from Simply Recipes, served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

With a meal like that, who needs a man?