I made a huge batch of homemade gnocchi the other day, and as I was brainstorming simple ways for serving it, I thought that I’d give baking it a try – stick some freshly sautéed, golden brown gnocchi in the oven under a nice coating of Marinara sauce and a sprinkling of Mozzarella cheese?! …What’s…
Tag: Cheese
Garden Pepper and Cheddar Cheese Bagels
The summer is wending down, in fact, if I do get around to posting this today, it will already technically be Autumn, which means both the harvesting of the last of my vegetable garden and a return to regular bread baking, which had been set aside due to the warmer weather. This recipe encapsulates both….
Humintas
I’m racking my brain for the best way to describe a huminta, and all that I can come up with is the Bolivian version of a tamale, but that seems like a tragically inefficient way of categorizing these wonderful cheesy pastry. This Bolivian speciality consists of a sweet corn dough, stuffed with a salty white…
Radishes with Raw Honey
I planted radishes in my garden for the first time this year, and they have done extremely well. Now, I am not a big radish lover, as a kid I was would always make the point of picking them off of my salads. Actually, come to think of it, I still do that as an…
Papa a la Huancaína
Papa a la Huancaína is one of my favorite Peruvian dishes, and as Vermont tends to lack good Peruvian cuisine, it falls to me to recreate my own versions of Peruvian dishes such as this one. Papa a la Huancaína, in its simplest form, is a potato smothered in a spicy cheese sauce. I decided…
Cheese Empanadas
There are many, many types and forms of empanadas. At its most basic an empanada just means something enveloped in bread or a wheat dough. When I envision empanadas, I think back to the empanadas of my childhood – the light, crisply fried pockets of melted cheese, dusted in powdered sugar – the hallmarks of…
