Whenever Sam and I need a quick lunch and don’t have any lunch food in the fridge, we like to visit La Boulange, a local French café and bakery chain. I vacillate between ordering the beet salad and the nicoise salad, but Sam always orders a cup of French onion soup with an open-faced sandwich. [...]
To ensure that the success of my last batch of gougères was not a fluke, I decided to put the pâte à choux ratio to the test one more time. By this time I was tired of cheese and black pepper and decided to skip the savory in favor of the sweet. Using the same [...]
Perhaps I should have been a little less confident in my ability to turn out a successful gougère on the first try. I’ve made pâte à choux pastries in the past—cream puffs, profiteroles and éclairs—and they had always turned light, puffy and eggy, but this week their savory cousin was proving troublesome. I knew [...]
This sandwich was created with Sam in mind and was inspired by a popular sandwich shop, Domenico’s, in our former town. Every time we visited the shop, Sam ordered the Melanzane, a grilled eggplant sandwich. Since we don’t get back to Domenico’s very often, I created my own version of the Melanzane. Oven-dried tomatoes are [...]
Hello! My name is Andrea, and I’m a freelance writer living in the lovely, hilly city of San Francisco with my husband Sam.
Whole Wheat Yogurt Flatbreads
This recipe is a keeper: I’ve already made these flatbreads four times in the last two weeks and I’m sure I’ll be making more of them this week. Thanks to the third (and final) cookbook I received for Christmas, Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty, I’ve discovered a new favorite in our household. Ottolenghi pairs the flatbreads with [...]