Last summer my friend Sue convinced me that I shouldn’t go through another canning season without a Victorio Food Strainer. At first I didn’t even understand what she was talking about. I don’t have a technical mind and in no way could even fathom how this works, let alone design something like this. But my hands, that is another story — they love this Victorio! I don’t have a food allergy to tomatoes but my hands really break out when I cut them up and process them. With the Victorio my handling of fruits and vegetables is much less.
Pepperoni and Tomato Galette
PSSSSST…Please don’t tell my sous-chef dish-washing mom, but the Chief gardener just brought in MORE tomatoes. Yikes! I’m pretty sure I told her last week that we are done with tomatoes for this year …. Lucky for us we have fallen in love with tomato galette. Galette is a term used in the French cuisine … Read more
It’s Tuesdays With Dorie. That usually means I join some 400+ other bakers and whip up a fun and awesome recipe from Dorie Greenspan’s book, Baking With Julia. The recipes in the book are based on the PBS series hosted by Julia Child. Baking with Julia presents an extraordinary assemblage of talent, knowledge, and artistry from the new generation of bakers whose vision is so much a part of this book. The list of contributors reads like a Who’s Who of today’s master bakers, including Flo Braker, Steve Sullivan, Marcel Desaulniers, Alice Medrich, Nancy Silverton, Martha Stewart, including Nick Malgieri, who is the contributing Baker for this week’s Semolina Bread.
