10 February 2012 This is what I’m making for dinner tonight. I have a tendency to use my blogs as recipe storage, so I was surprised to find when I went looking for my recipe for this that I had only posted it to my Facebook Notes, so here it is… This is a classic […]
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Quick Cook Three Tomato Pasta Sauce by Gemma Seymour-Amper 19 November 2011 Serves 6-8 120 ml (1/2 c.) extra virgin olive oil 500 g chopped yellow onion 8 large cloves garlic, minced 240 ml (1 c.) unsalted beef stock (substitute vegetable stock for vegan) 2 envelopes (1/4 oz. each) Knox unflavored gelatin (if stock is […]
No-Knead Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Honey White Bread by Gemma Seymour-Amper (after Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery, New York, NY) Makes 1 loaf 9 December 2011 This bread is close to perfection. The honey imparts a touch of sweetness, and the EVOO gives it a pastry-like crumb, flaky and tender, because the […]
Stagione Estiva (The Summer Season) a raw pasta or salad dressing by Gemma Seymour-Amper 9 December 2011 Serves 4 -ish* 80 ml (1/3 c.) extra virgin olive oil 4 anchovy filets 1/2 large shallot (~ 20 grams), peeled and sliced paper-thin 2 cloves garlic, peeled smashed and minced finely 24 red grape or small cherry […]
Last night, I managed to make the best tortilla espagnole that I’ve ever made. I decided to go with the following proportions, which shall now be my standard. I have found that most restaurants tend to make their tortillas more dry and less eggy than I prefer, so if you are at all familiar with […]
Sauce Mémoire (Sauce Moutarde à la Gemma) by Gemma Seymour 20 November 2011 Today is the 13th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. I created this recipe while making dinner tonight for my family. I was unable to attend any vigils or memorials this weekend because I have been suffering from a herniated disc, so I […]
28 September 2011 I first encountered the concept of tapas at a restaurant called Pamplona in Philadelphia many years ago, and I immediately fell in love with Spanish food. Unfortunately for me, Pamplona soon went out of business, and it was many years before another tapas bar opened in Philadelphia, but every time there’s been […]
A few months back, I managed to score a Calphalon enamelled cast iron Dutch Oven on the clearance rack at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. It’s a beautiful piece, the particular example having been used as a display and which has a couple of chips out of the enamel on the outside of the lid. It […]
In honor of my cousin, Jill Seymour, who recently launched her new vegetarian food blog, Vegetariabean, here is my vegan recipe for Aloo Matar…this is dead simple to make and very, very tasty. Don’t forget to check out Jill’s blog for more recipes! Aloo Matar (Potato and Green Pea Curry) by Gemma Seymour Serves 4-6 […]
12 August 2011 The other day, I had to make a run to North Jersey to check out an accessibility van for my wheelchair-bound mother, and on my return trip, I decided to stop by a German butcher shop that I had passed several times while traveling that way for other purposes in the past. […]
(originally published to my Facebook Notes on 27 June 2011) This is a thing I’ve been making for awhile, inspired by something in Claudia Roden‘s The New Book of Middle Eastern Food. My old friend and schoolmate, Cas Marino, got me thinking about Middle Eastern food today with all his talk of shawarma, so I […]
(originally posted at my Tumblr on 26 November 2010) I don’t think I can really talk about food without talking about Adobo. Filipino Adobo is pretty much the national dish of the Philippines, and its most common variety is Chicken Adobo. The same basic cooking technique can be used for just about any type of […]
