Category Archives: Recipes

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Recipe: Simple Spanish Gazpacho

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Burnt My Fingers

Use this Simple Spanish Gazpacho recipe when your tomatoes are so good, you don’t want any other flavors getting in the way. Adapted from the excellent Simple Spanish Food website. It’s meant to be drunk from a glass or cup. … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Easy Kosher Pickles

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Burnt My Fingers

These are darn close to Guss’s Kosher pickles in my opinion. All you need is cucumbers, water, salt, garlic and patience. Ingredients: A pound or more of nice pickling cucumbers Water Kosher salt or another non-iodized salt A handful of garlic … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Wilted Kale Salad

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Burnt My Fingers

There are lots of recipes for wilted (or “massaged”) kale salads around, but this one nails the flavor balance*. It’s from Jennifer Adler, a nutritionist in Seattle. Thanks to Daniel B for the link that led me to it. Ingredients: … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Korean Bean Sprout Salad

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Burnt My Fingers

This Korean bean sprout salad is from the somewhat grandiosely titled “The Complete Book of Oriental Cooking”, a Penguin paperback by Myra Waldo published in 1960. Conventional spices are used in unusual proportions to create an exotic taste without sesame … Continue reading →

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Special Recipe: Kettle Bread

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Burnt My Fingers

Welcome to sourdough baking Tartine style. Tartine is a bakery in San Francisco that makes one batch of bread per day, at 5 pm, and sells out immediately. With your starter and these instructions you will create two magnificent loaves … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Chickpea Salad with Reverse Vinaigrette

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Burnt My Fingers

A little oil and a lot of vinegar brings stodgy garbanzos to life in this chickpea salad. Adapted from Annie Somerville’s Fields of Greens, by far the best of the three Greens cookbooks. 4 servings. Ingredients: 15-oz can garbanzo beans, … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Texas-Style Potato Salad

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Burnt My Fingers

A Texas-style potato salad is definitely going to have eggs and yellow mustard in there, and probably some chopped up pimentos. Tastes better the next day, so plan ahead. Makes enough for a neighborhood barbecue (around 12 servings). Ingredients: 3 … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Dr. Pepper Rice

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Burnt My Fingers

Not that you would, but you could. Dr. Pepper Rice is from Gerald Ramsey’s “Morning, Noon and Night Cookbook” (1963) and it is reminiscent of wild rice. 8 servings. Ingredients: 2 c long grain white rice 3 c Dr. Pepper, … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Monterey Tuna Salad

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Burnt My Fingers

My best recollection of the sweet tuna salad served at the Fountain Court Café in the Monterey, CA Community Hospital. This cafeteria is so popular that perfectly healthy people from nearby communities flock to eat here; priority seating is given … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Overnight Pizza Dough

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Burnt My Fingers

Adapted from Jeffrey Hamelman at King Arthur Flour. Unlike Pizza D’oh, overnight pizza dough a classic Neapolitan crust with nothing but flour, water, salt and leavening. Makes four individual pizzas (approximately 8 inch diameter). Ingredients: 500 g all-purpose flour 340 ml … Continue reading →

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