Boccone Dolce's Profile
Wanted - Potato Gnocchi recipe with no wheat flour
I haven't tried this but it looks amazing: http://thesensitiveepicure.blogspot.com/2011/04/gluten-free-gnocchi-with-tomato-sauce.html
My food world have flipped since having a child with special dietary restrictions, and I am constantly recipe hunting.
I could actually make this for him with a few other slight changes-thanks for the idea!
Repurposing cooked broccoli - this is a challenge!
Calzone? I'm liking that.
No eggs for me (long story) but that sounds good.
Have a package of dumpling wrappers- I have seen them used in making ravioli but It seems like work.
Cavatelli (or GAVA-deeeel as we like to butcher it) is looking better & better!
Repurposing cooked broccoli - this is a challenge!
A year later and I've got this issue, but my broccoli doesn't taste so good...
I can wait 9 days until my conscience allows me to throw it out, or try and fix it up.
Broccoli, tossed with olive oil, s&p and roasted to a nice crisp. It just tastes lousy.
I may do the cavatelli route, but I also have some mascarpone to use up. Blah to soup. Pesto? That could work...
Vegan Cream Cheese
Galay Nutrition rice-based American slices are a favorite around here, my toddler loves them. Which means nothing, he also likes chewing on the dog's tail. But he also loved that cream cheeze... On toast, with jelly.
I tried the Daiya shreds, amazing in Mac-n-Cheeze sauce, not so good on grilled cheeze. very slippery.
Easter Menus, y'all!
It's not traditional from my part of the boot- I think it's Sicilian- it's a heavy, dense, ricotta pie with wheat berries, citron, a gazillion eggs, killer crust (no short cuts on the crust, people!!) - my gorgeous sister made it from her wife's recipe (handed down from her wife's mother)
I love it 'cuz it's not sicky sweet. And the wheat berries are fun!
Easter Menus, y'all!
Thank you, yes, they ARE amazing. Just one and done for me (I'm an old Dolce) but he fills me up, so he is plenty!
3 weeks? Bless you! I was still popping percoset and wondering if they make bras in XYZ cups at 3 weeks... Anyway:
Tort Salad- I use frozen cheese tortellini, cooked al dente and dressed quick with minced garlic, crushed red pepper, salt, diced roasted red bell peppers, salt, olive oil- then chill it. Later add diced hard cheese, hard cold cuts (don't go too crazy on the meats) and for crunch sometimes bits of celery.. It needs salt.
I make an oil and vinegar dressing and toss in a handful of romano...
Easter Menus, y'all!
It's a pre-Easter Sunday dinna here in Flora-duh... This is small and unusual for us but with a 16 week old, Momma is exhausted. Lately, you are lucky there's food and I remember to wear pants.
Hammy
Cheese Tortellini Salad
Gingered Pears & Apples
Something green
Rolls
Wine, wine, wine, cheese and wine
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Grain Pie!!
How should I use my MILK chocolate chips? Not for CCCs.
Melt them down and coat pretzels/pretzel rods, roll in crushed nuts or sprinkles, or just leave naked- let harden on parchment.
I get lazy so I use the pretzel rods (faster!) - I've done this many times. Now I want some!
Not sure- but someone may know if they work in those Magic Cookie Bars?
http://www.eaglebrand.com/Recipes/Details/Default.aspx?RecipeId=3934
Saving a piece for someone else: the ultimate chowhound sacrifice?
Yes pika- I believe I called him a Brute!!
My guess, Parigi, is that I'm 21 weeks pregnant, hardly anything tastes amazing anymore and I was hoping my sweety loved it as much as I did ... and as he was probably hoping for meat!
Yes of course I'll always share-this is actually the first time I ever viewed it as a non-mutual happy ending!
Does a bone really thicken up a spaghetti sauce
Throw it in a big roasting pan and "bake" it a while- to me it gives the tomato sauce intense flavor. And it's always thick...
Saving a piece for someone else: the ultimate chowhound sacrifice?
Yesterday I ate one half of this delicious eggplant parm sandwich... The bread was perfect- chewy on the outside, not crumbly or too soft and the eggplant was thin and light, plenty of gorgeous mozzarella oozing out, it was all I could do not to eat the other half. I ate every bite, even all the bread because it was SO GOOD (she said the bread is flown in from NYC) and I don't normally EVER let myself eat all the bread. The flavors were amazing. It was a thing of love. I hugged the deli owner.
So on the way home, my husband called-stuck at work and starving... I brought him the rest. I told him all about it, that it was magical, that it would taste so good he would want to smack himself. I kissed him goodbye, and gave one long last look at the EPP... When I called him later I asked about the sandwich first thing- and I get 'It was alright... bread was too chewy."
I MOURNED the loss of that sandwich for the rest of yesterday and all of this morning. He knew I was in lust with it, that I gave it to him because I love him so much I could know no greater joy at that moment than sharing such perfect sandwich-ness with my amazing husband. Our relationship would be even stronger, once I was able to share this food with him...
And he crapped all over it.
But I'll still share, usually the results are much more fulfilling...
Crack Pie Recipe
My boss (who calls me a Yankee) loves his Chess Pie.
I was frantic the night before his birthday last week- couldn't find the exact chess pie recipe I'd made before that he loved, so I used my iphone epicurious app and found a lemony version (actually I was supposed to use the zest of an orange and a lemon but I didn't have an orange so I used only lemon) - well, people freaked out over this pie...
It was a stick of butter, egg yolks (4 I think) - a cup of sugar, the zest, the lemon juice (I never measure) I baked it in a Publix brand pie crust!! They were genuflecting as they passed me in the hall.
I'm going to try it in a cookie crust next time... I can't eat it- way too sweet for me (I don't tolerate sugar) but it's too easy not to make, even for a confirmed 'non-baker but loves her sweets' girl like me...
What was this wonderful cookie?
Gimmie!!!
I can't get enough cookies, lately I'm sad when I venture into new cookie-land. I like a fat, busy cookie and I like it to not fall apart as I nibble.
I'm really in love with macadamia nut but hate the taste of "white chocolate" - I call it 'mock-late' ala the Friends episode when Monica had to cook with that stuff.
There are a few sticks of butter getting soft on my counter tomorrow AM for me to bake, it's been so hot here but if I start early I can be done before the sun comes up!
Cold cuts - "Italian loaf"
I would probably use it in a Cold Cut Pie- aka Easter Pie aka Pizza Rustica....
Or in our family that has a tendency to 'butcher' words, we say - "Pizza Gain"
(It's SO GOOD!! DO it!!!)
green bean "chips"
Good luck- I love the heck out of those dehydrated veggie crispy salty fatty things they sell in the bulk bins and sometimes in small packs- they are too tasty to be healthy...
Don't get fooled into buying the Snapea Crisps and think they are the same- they are NOT. I was so disgruntled I threw a hissy in my cubicle...
cheesecake, cold water bath
Tried it once-didn't want to deal with it ever again. I must be lucky- never a leak, never uncooked either- but the top DOES get brown (as do the sides-which I find tasty) and yeah, sure it cracks but that doesn't slow us down a bit...
Gluten Free Comfort Food
Thanks friends..
Found out the little cutie hates chicken (he says he is 'vegetarian to chicken' !!)
Un-bunned burgers, baked oven fries, and I think she said he likes corn. I'll figure out a way to get green in there, somehow...
Ooooh Polenta- great idea!
Gluten Free Comfort Food
I have guests who just traveled cross country and the little one is g/f. I'm short on time and working today and tomorrow so I'm desperate for ideas. Just want to make them a nice, homey meal and of course all I can think of is stuff like baked ziti, baked stuffed shells, lasagna....
Planters Flavor Grove Almonds
I think it's a fluke- a Chili Lime almond that doesn't taste like paint thinner and hate? I grabbed a bag and did not heed the suggested serving size. I'm afraid to buy another one and realize that it was just a one and done. They will find some way to ruin them, especially if I profess my love for them (look what happened to my Lady Stella cookies)
They are unusually good. Please try and report back to me.
http://www.planters.com/varieties/nutrition-information.aspx?Site=1&Product=2900001428
Best barbeque sauce out of a bottle?
I picked up a huge jug of it at Big Lots ($2.50) - my husband asked me to pick up more but I haven't been back yet to see if they have any left.
I don't really care for it myself but he loves it. I do like the Sweet Baby Ray's, and I picked up the new A-1 with Lea & Perrins in it. Actually I can't think if it's A-1 or not- but I had a coupon... Will report back once we get to it. It came with a free brush which my husband liked for the no-nag clause that comes with it. (I'm really particular about the cleaning ritual of MY basting brush...)
Peanut Butter......... on corn?
In the 17 years I lived in Sonoma County I don't remember seeing this, ever...
I don't care for loose corn, and if I have to eat cob corn I slice it off (such a contradiction. this is true..) and I like real butter, s&p.
Tiramisu
Funny + True: It was my birthday at some little resto -my boyfriend ordered tiramisu for dessert and they of course stuck a candle in it. But they didn't go "light" on the cocoa.... When I blew that candle out, it was like a dust storm over our table!!
I have a lot of brie wedges
Do you happen to own a mini-muffin tin?
Grab the brie, the muffin tin, a can-o-crescent rolls, and some hoity-toity-fruit preserve of your choosing (I chose FIG)
You know what to do; arrange the dough to fit neatly inside the (fully greased) muffin tin, plop in a chunk of cut brie into each one, top with a tsp or so of preserves... bake until golden....
It's not fancy, but my "I don't like brie" husband inhaled them.
Help! What to do with ruined cheesecake?
No, but I love that name so much I almost hyperventilated!
I have 2 bricks of cream cheese in the fridge.... hmmmmmmmmm.... but it's 90* today, not really enticed to put the oven on.
Help! What to do with ruined cheesecake?
That was the *VERY* first thing I thought of. I wish I could remember the name of that bakery in NJ that makes them stick-free -they can cure a broken heart...
Wait- it could be PA... It's been a few years!
What should I make with left over pork shoulder
Make Cubans!
Make some chimichurri sauce and eat with torn off pieces of warm, flour tortillas! (can you sense my excitement for leftover pork options?!?!)
Pork and Beans?
I like the chilaquiles suggestion, actually... with a good, tomatillo sauce..
It's your birthday...you treat yourself to...?
Opus One (I know little about wine, but I've had this and fell in love)
Extra garlicky Cioppino
Thick, crusty bread
Freshly fried, hot, powdered sugar smothered zeppoles (I call them zape-las) -
The thickest, densest NY-style cheesecake topped with huge ripe strawberries... just a bite or three...
(That's what I would eat-but I prefer to do so with company!)
Happy Birthday!!!
No more dark toast?
We are toasty-toasted toast people. I hate limpness in the morning... (any time of day, really)
I recently had to endure a morning meal at Perkins, and was faced with yuck-toast. My server had no problem asking the cook for another order of rye- "well done" - it came out perfect.... after our meal ended!
