Joe's started making pizza using dough from down the street at Modern Apizza. This one has thinly sliced zucchini (making good use of our new mandoline!), goat cheese, toasted walnuts, and smoked paprika:
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/summer-squash-pizza-with-goat-cheese-and-walnuts
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Zucchini Pizza with Goat Cheese and Walnuts
Monday, September 21, 2009
Chocolate red wine cake and other things that are red
A few of our friends in our wedding party chipped in to get us a beautiful new red KitchenAid mixer. I really wanted it because I am powerless to resist a cherry red kitchen appliance, but it turns out to be pretty much the awesomest mixer ever. It has this huge bowl, and it's so powerful! I basically want to whip air into every liquid in the kitchen with it.
Which is good, because Joe eats cake for breakfast, lunch, dessert, and post-dessert.
On the topic of red appliances, another friend got us a cherry red ice cream maker, which means that Joe is also fixated on making the perfect ice cream. He just bought about a pound of vanilla beans, which make a huge difference.
Oh yeah, and this cake? Chocolate red-wine cake, recipe at:
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/chocolate-red-wine-cake
The red wine gives it a nicely subtle complexity - it's moist and chocolatey, but not as cloying as some chocolate cakes. It looks a little raggedy though -- it left a little of the top layer on the bundt pan when I turned it over, which happened to me for another cake I made in this apartment too, even though I've greased my pans like crazy. I don't know if I'm taking the cake out a little early or what. Sounds like I need to make more cakes, mmm.
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