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July 2014

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Apricot and Black Pepper Galette

Written by Rachel, Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Brunch, Dessert, Eggs, Fruit, Lunch, Vegetarian

Remember that time when my blog was broken… for like two months… and then Tim and some friends fixed it?

Yeah, they fixed it just because they’re nice people.

So I made them a galette.

Sometimes thank you needs to be said in the form of food.

David, Andy, Vic, and of course Tim, thank you. I can cook the food, take the pictures, and type some letters in here. But, when something breaks, it takes brains like yours to know how to make things better. I am grateful.

So grateful that I’m sharing our stone fruit. Sharing it and converting it into a thank you treat.

We had some over-ripe apricots in the fridge. You know, the ones that are kinda wrinkly and you think they might be good for nothing? Instead, you find that they’re super soft and sweet. Just perfect for a galette.

Nectarines, peaches, plums, apriums, and pluots could all be substituted. You know, use what you have on hand.

Lemon zest. It needed to be a part of this dish. I just can’t get enough. It’s an essential part of my pantry, so I try to have lemons on hand no matter what the season. They brighten almost any dish.

Apricots are combined with a bit of butter, some honey, and maple syrup.

Aaaand black pepper.

Don’t skip this. Black pepper goes really well with stone fruit.

Seriously!

I made a pie crust. I used Alana’s recipe from her cookbook, which is one of my favorites, called The Homemade Pantry (it’s on page 150). It was super easy and I really liked how it turned out. Sooo yeah, I’ll be making that again (along with her Maple Popcorn which I’ve made twice and can’t stop stuffing into my face).

Alana suggests folding the crust in half and then in half again to move it from the counter to the pan. I did this. It worked well.

Winner.

All that sweet filling is plomped in the center of the crust.

I think this is gonna be good.

The filling is sprinkled with chopped almonds. For crunch. Walnuts would be great too. Or if you’re not nuts about nuts (sorry, I couldn’t resist), leave ’em out.

To make the crust all shiny and pretty I whisked an egg and brushed it onto the crust. You don’t have to do this, but it’s an easy way to make your galette go from pretty to spectacular.

I was all proud of myself for making a crust that held together and didn’t have any holes for the filling to leak out of.

Wrong.

It leaked all over the place. (This happened the first time I made a galette too.)

The good thing is that it turns into candy.

Accidental candy.

I ate most of it.

The rest I scraped off the pan and drizzled over the galette.

Yep, now the galette has caramel sauce on it.

Super fancy.

(If your galette doesn’t leak, pat yourself on the back and then email me to tell me how you did it. Ok? Ok.)

The whole process took me a while, from pie crust start to drizzling finish. But, it’s not all that complicated or difficult. And it’s so worth it.

Make this ahead of time and then invite your favorite people to join you for dinner. I would like to eat this outside, under a nice shade tree, after some barbecue and potato salad. And the leftovers, if there are any, might get a dollop of Greek yogurt and turn into breakfast.

That’s how we roll at our house.

Happy Eating!

Apricot and Black Pepper Galette

Recipe Type: Dessert, Fruit, Summer

Author: Rachel Oberg – De Ma Cuisine

Prep time: 75 mins

Cook time: 30 mins

Total time: 1 hour 45 mins

Serves: 6

Ingredients

1 pie crust
1/8 to 1/4 C honey
1/8 to 1/4 C maple syrup
1 t lemon zest
1 T lemon juice
pinch salt
1/4 t freshly ground black pepper
3 C super ripe apricots (plums, peaches, nectarines, pluots, apriums could be substituted or added)
1 T butter, cut into small pieces
butter, for baking
flour, for baking
2 T almonds, chopped
1 egg, whisked

Instructions

Prepare pie crust and chill for an hour. Remove from fridge 15 minutes before rolling out.
Pre-heat the oven to 375F.
Whisk together honey through pepper. Add apricots and butter, tossing gently to combine.
Butter and lightly flour a piece of parchment paper, that’s on a baking sheet.
Roll out pie crust to be about 12-14″ in diameter. Gently fold in half and in half again, and pick it up to place on the parchment paper. Unfold.
Scoop the apricot mixture into the center of the crust. Sprinkle with almonds. Gently fold the crust up and around the filling, leaving the center open. Make sure there are no cracks, or the liquid will run. Brush crust with egg and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the crust is golden and flaky.
If any sauce leaks out, scrape off the pan with a spoon and drizzle over the galette (it will be like a caramel).
Let cool completely before serving.

Notes

Prep time includes pie crust preparation.

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Friday

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June 2014

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Vegan Fruit Crisp

Written by Rachel, Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Brunch, Dairy-Free, Dessert, Fruit, Gluten Free, Kid-Friendly, Quick and Easy, Vegan, Vegetarian

A few weeks ago we were invited to a barbecue at the house of some friends. I brought the dessert. The only dessert.

One of my favorite go-to desserts is fruit crisp. I like to make it because it’s easy and because my mom used to make it all the time when I was growing up, so I have a sentimental attachment to it.

For this particular evening, I chose to make it because the friends who hosted are vegans. I wasn’t sure about trying to make a vegan cake. So I went with simple, and adapted my crisp to suit them.

Their son, Theo, was not impressed. He was expecting dessert. To a three year old, dessert means cake.

Oops.

The still warm crisp was dished out. Generous helpings. I was anxious to know if they liked it. As Theo was handed his plate his little face just crumpled and the cutest three year old voice says, “That’s not desse-wrt! Where’s the cake?”

Thankfully his parents liked it. 😉

It’s the perfect dessert for whatever fruit is in season. Spring and summer: berries and stone fruit. Fall and winter: apples, pears, persimmons, and grapes. And it makes a fabulous breakfast the next day. Cold with some Greek yogurt, that’s how I like it. Or just standing in front of the fridge with the door open, shoveling spoonfuls into my mouth as I try to decide what to make for dinner. (I know, I know, I’m not supposed to decide with the fridge door open… My mom has told me a thousand times…)

Sugars and juice are whisked together. Sweet sweet. But, it’s honey, maple syrup, and coconut palm sugar. No refined white sugar here. You can use white or brown sugar if you prefer. This is how I like it though.

Super sweet and juicy, the fruit is tossed with the liquid and poured into a greased baking dish.

I opted for summer fruits, because that’s what’s in season. Aren’t the colors pretty?

A slightly less sweet, oaty, crumbly mixture will top the fruit.

Oats for hearty goodness. And to make this a perfectly acceptable next day breakfast.

Invite your favorite people over, or bring this to a barbecue.

Just be sure to remind them that it’s not cake.

(Sorry Theo.)

Happy Eating!

Vegan Fruit Crisp

Recipe Type: Dessert, Vegan, Fruit

Author: Rachel Oberg – De Ma Cuisine

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 45 mins

Total time: 1 hour

Serves: 8-10

Perfect for any time of year, for vegans and non-vegans alike.

Ingredients

2 C blueberries
1 C strawberries (could sub blackberries), chopped
2 C (heaping) nectarines (could sub apples, pears, plums, persimmons), chopped
1/2 C apriums/apricots (could sub peaches), chopped
1 T cornstarch
1 t vanilla extract
3 T orange juice
pinch salt
1/3 C honey
1/3 C coconut palm sugar (honey, maple syrup, or brown sugar will work too)
1/3 C maple syrup (or honey)
4 C oats
1/3 C coconut palm sugar
2 T whole wheat or Gluten-free flour
1 t cinnamon
dash nutmeg
pinch allspice
1/3 C maple syrup
3 T coconut oil, melted
2 T honey
1 T coconut oil, plus more for greasing the pan

Instructions

Pre-heat the oven to 350F.
Combine fruit in a bowl.
Whisk together cornstarch, vanilla, orange juice, salt, honey, coconut palm sugar, and maple syrup. Toss with fruit.
Combine oats, flour, coconut palm sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Add maple syrup, oil, and honey.
Pour fruit into a greased 9×13 baking dish. Top with oat mixture. Press down slightly with a spatula. Bake for about 45 minutes, or until bubbly and hot.
Let stand for at least 10 minutes before serving – it’s best just a little warmer than room temperature.

Notes

If you’d prefer a non-vegan crisp, use butter instead of coconut oil. If you have vegan friends who don’t eat honey, just use maple syrup. For gluten-free, use your favorite GF flour and oats.

Thursday

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April 2014

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Classic Meat and Cheese Lasagna… With Veggies

Written by Rachel, Posted in Baking, Beef, Cheese, Dinner, Herbs, Main Dishes, Meat, Pasta, Vegetables

Tim informed me the other day that he would like more lasagna, meatloaf, and tacos in his life. Cool. I can do that. I had lasagna on the menu before he even asked.

Winner. (Um, both of us.)

I woke up really early this morning to get started, since I had two meals to cook and photograph. Boy was it fun. No really, it was. I’m totally not being sarcastic. I enjoyed a full day of cooking and picture making.

It’s a lot of fun to cook and photograph for you guys to see on here. But, let’s be honest, when I know that Tim is going to love something as much as he loves lasagna, well, not much can beat that.

We just moved and have some friends coming to visit from Germany next week (yippee!). So I made two, and put one in the freezer. That means that if my kitchen isn’t completely unpacked, or if I don’t have the energy after unpacking and working all day, I can pop a lasagna in the oven, and dinner is taken care of… except for the caesar salad and garlic bread that will definitely need to accompany the meal. Other than that, all I have to do is open the wine.

This is my version of a classic meat and cheese lasagna, with lots of veggies. I threw in some radish, kale, celery, and carrot. I’m not really afraid of veggie-ing up a dish. If you don’t heart vegetables, you are not alone (sorrynotsorry). Yesterday, Tim told me that something we had for dinner was “really good, for vegetables”. We may not share the same opinion about the deliciousness of greens. 😉

Thankfully, we do both really enjoy cheese. I know you can use ricotta for lasagna, but I couldn’t find it at the store, so I used cottage cheese. It’s mixed together with Greek yogurt, mozzarella, and parmesan. I’m not sure that you could have too much of this cheesy mixture.

The sauce is simple, it’s almost just tomato sauce and herbs. Like the cheese mixture, too much is a good thing.

The anatomy of the lasagna and the way it all comes together.

Also, the sunlight changes more than I’d noticed in real life.

It bakes up and bubbles and melts and mmmm tastes so good. You should’a seen the huge helping Tim got. And then I looked over and it was gone. So I gave him a bite of mine. He can’t get enough lasagna.

I served this lasagna with some crazy good garlic bread. Done and done.

Happy Eating!

Classic Meat and Cheese Lasagna

Recipe Type: Main Dishes, Dinners, Meat, Beef, Vegetables, Cheese, Hearty, Oven, Baking, Greens

Cuisine: Italian

Author: Rachel Oberg – De Ma Cuisine

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 90 mins

Total time: 1 hour 45 mins

Serves: 8

A classic lasagna with lots of veggies.

Ingredients

meat and veggie filling: 1 lb. ground beef
4 cloves garlic, minced
3/4 C carrot, diced
1/4 C radish, diced
3/4 C celery, diced
3 C kale, chopped
to taste salt
to taste pepper
pinch nutmeg
cheese filling: 16 oz. cottage cheese
1/2 C Greek yogurt
2 1/2 C mozzarella cheese, grated (1 C reserved)
1/2 C parmesan cheese
to taste salt
to taste pepper
tomato sauce: 4-6 C tomato sauce
to taste salt
to taste pepper
1 t dried oregano, crushed
1 t dried thyme, crushed
1 t dried parsley, crushed
1 t dried basil, crushed
1/2 t dried rosemary, crushed
1 T balsamic vinegar
1 – 9 oz. box (about 12 noodles) lasagna noodles (the kind that don’t need to be cooked first*)

Instructions

Pre-heat the oven to 350F.
Cook beef until partially done, then add garlic through celery, and cook for 5-10 minutes. Add kale and wilt down, about 5 minutes. Add salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Taste and adjust seasoning. Remove from heat and cover to keep warm.
Mix together cheese filling ingredients. Taste and adjust seasoning.
Mix together tomato sauce ingredients. Taste and adjust seasoning.
Grease two 8×8 pans (or one 9×13). Spoon a bit of sauce into the bottom of the pan and top with two noodles. Top noodles with meat and vegetable filling, then with cheese mixture, and more sauce. Repeat three more times, topping last set of noodles with lots of sauce and reserved mozzarella.
Bake covered for 30 minutes, then uncovered for 30-40 more.
Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

Wednesday

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February 2014

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Mushroom and Prosciutto Flatbread – for AJ

Written by Rachel, Posted in Appetizers, Baking, Brunch, Cheese, Dinner, Fruit, Herbs, Lunch, Meat, Pizza, Pork, Quick and Easy, Sides, Snacks, Vegetables

Alexandra Joy is a busy new mom. She has a four month old daughter named Clover (hello cutest name ever!) and is the owner of Pink & Honey Event Styling. Yet she still makes the time to love on friends like me and tell people about my work. So I thought, what better dish for a tired mama than a quick flatbread?!

You need some cheese, mushrooms, and prosciutto.

Lemon, basil, and walnuts are a must. They transform this flatbread from “pretty great” to “putthisonthemenueveryweekforrealforrealforreal”.

It all goes onto a thin pizza crust that’s topped with some olive oil and salt. A tired mom could do that, right? (Seriously, I’m asking. I have no idea.)

This can be an appetizer (hello Oscar party!), a snack (what I’ve been eating all day), or a light dinner (falling asleep at the table is totally allowed).

I made it this morning. I’d already eaten breakfast (ok, like two hours before, but still…) and I couldn’t stop eating. I only had two slices, but I’m confident that I could have devoured ~~two or three more~~ the entire thing. Seriously good food.

The only problem is that I don’t want to share… I guess it’s a good thing that AJ lives about 1,150 miles away (actually, I’d rather she lived closer – I’d share).

I’m thankful for great friends and good food.

Happy Eating!

Mushroom and Prosciutto Flatbread

Recipe Type: Pizza, Flatbread, Oven, Appetizer, Dinner, Party Food

Author: Rachel Oberg – De Ma Cuisine

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 10 mins

Total time: 20 mins

Serves: 2-4

Ingredients

1 pizza crust
olive oil
to taste salt
to taste pepper (optional)
3/4 C mushrooms, thinly sliced
1/3 C (3 slices) prosciutto, chopped
1/2 C gruyere cheese, grated
1/2 C Parmesan cheese, grated
1/4 C walnuts, chopped
fresh basil, chiffonade (or sliced into ribbons), for serving
lemon wedges, for serving

Instructions

Pre-heat oven according to pizza crust recipe (I cooked it at 450F).
Thinly roll crust on a greased baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Top with cheese (reserving 1/4 C), mushrooms, prosciutto, walnuts, and remaining cheese.
Bake for about 10 minutes, or until crust is to desired crispiness and cheese is melted.
Serve topped with basil and a squeeze of lemon.

I used Alana’s crust from her The Homemade Pantry cookbook (p.172) and it was just perfect. I made it the night before and (as instructed) let it rise for about 15 hours. Fabulous!

Monday

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February 2014

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Veggie Pizza with Artichoke Hearts

Written by Rachel, Posted in Baking, Cheese, Dinner, Herbs, Lunch, Main Dishes, Pizza, Vegetables, Vegetarian

Things I learned today:

The smoke detector will go off when the oven is at 500F and there’s a pizza stone in there.

Artichokes may be best on pizza.

When I’m tired I type things like, “Almost anything is better when it tastes like garbage.”

I like one of these two lessons. No, two of them. I still can’t stop laughing at the garbage line. And I like that almost anything is better when it tastes like pizza.

Take artichokes for example. Sure, they’re fun to eat steamed, grilled, boiled and then dunked in dip. That’s a good thing. But, I wondered to myself the other day if they might not be even better on pizza.

I think they are. It may be my new go-to way to eat them.

Carrots on the other hand, can be used in about a million different ways, and are delicious in all of them. I mean, you can make them into cake for goodness sake! (And I made a rhyme… cool.) How many things can you eat raw and in a cake and call them both extraordinary?

Rosemary compliments the artichokes and carrots. Lemon zest and juice are added to tomato sauce to make a tangy, citrusy pizza. Everyone is topped with some Gruyère and Parmesan cheese. Yep, you’re welcome.

One of the day’s lessons came when I was following the recipe in Alice Water’s The Art of Simple Food for pizza dough. Her recipe says to pre-heat the oven to 500F with a pizza stone in there. I was gonna prepare the pizza on the pizza peel and slide it onto the hot stone. But, our smoke detector is in our kitchen (since our kitchen is a part of the living room), so it started screaming at me. I know that pizza stones can smoke, but I didn’t want the noise to continue. So, lesson learned. For as long as we live here, with this particular kitchen, I will not be using a pizza stone.

I used a regular pizza pan and it worked out just fine. Plus the noise stopped.

The artichoke hearts were steamed before they went on to the pizza, which makes them tender and delicious. The lemon gives them a good citrusy kick, and the rosemary brings an earthy balance to each slice. The carrots, well, they seem to get along with everyone, so they’re there, in the background, sharing a little bit of sweetness.

All in all, a great new way to use artichokes… or maybe just new to me. You might have been doing this all along. Sometimes I need to catch up. Especially on a day like today when my brain has not brought it’s A game. I blame the olympics. They keep me up way too late.

Happy Eating!

Veggie Pizza with Artichoke Hearts

Recipe Type: Pizza, Main Dishes, Vegetarian

Author: Rachel Oberg – De Ma Cuisine

Serves: 2-4

Ingredients

3 large artichoke hearts (choke removed), halved (save leaves to steam and eat)
water
1 pizza crust
1 C tomato sauce
1/2 to 1 t fresh rosemary, chopped
to taste salt
to taste pepper
1/4 to 1/2 t red pepper flakes
1 lemon, zested and juiced
1 small carrot, grated
3/4 C gruyère cheese, grated
1/4 C parmesan cheese, grated

Instructions

Pre-heat oven according to your favorite pizza crust recipe.
Place artichoke hearts in a steamer basket in a pot with about 1″ boiling water in the bottom. Cover and cook for about 15 minutes, or until artichokes are tender. Roughly chop and set aside.
To make sauce: Combine tomato sauce with rosemary, seasonings, lemon zest and juice. Taste and adjust seasoning if needed.
Roll out pizza dough.
Top crust with sauce, cheese, veggies, and a little more cheese.
Bake according to crust recipe until crust is crispy and slightly browned and cheese is melted.

Notes

The sauce is enough for 3-4 pizzas. Freeze any leftovers for next time!

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