Cooking all over the World: [Update] There are 2 new posts in "Simply Recipes"

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

[Update] There are 2 new posts in "Simply Recipes"

Simply Recipes

Here is the Simply Recipes update for jorgehumbertocoelho.cooking@blogger.com

Cheese Biscuits
Tomato Pie

There are 2 new posts in "Simply Recipes"

Cheese Biscuits

These cheese biscuits from Garrett are the best, enjoy! ~Elise

There are a three secrets to making successful biscuits.

1. You have to be willing to get your hands dirty. Mixing with a spoon overworks the dough. Your hands keep things delicate. Plus, all that squishing and making a mess is fun. (Or put the kids to work. They'll love it.)

2. Keep your butter cold. This ensures plenty of rise, rich flavor, and delicate layers of puffy biscuit.

3. Add lots of cheese. I mean LOTS. Because cheese is good.

Follow these steps and I promise you perfect biscuits every time.

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Tomato Pie

If you didn't catch this recipe the first time round, it's a winner! And perfect for ripe garden tomatoes. From the recipe archives, first posted August 2009. ~Elise

One of the great things about going on vacation is I get to hang out with my friends, and sometimes meet their friends, who sometimes have OMG-this-is-so-GOOD dishes that they bring over. This tomato pie recipe is a result of one of these encounters. The first time I heard of it ("tomato pie", hmm, oooookaaaay) my brain suffered a little cognitive dissonance (never heard those two words, tomato and pie, joined at the hip like that before). Seconds after taking a bite however, I was begging for the recipe. Many thanks to Diane Connolly (aka Lady Di) who graciously wrote it out on some post-it notes for me at the dinner table. It is the first thing I cooked when I got back home. Think pizza meets cheesy bread and they make-out in a pie crust. The recipe lends itself to estimates. Handfuls of this, handfuls of that. I measured, but you could eyeball it and it would still work out. Feel free to change the cheeses around, play with the spices. I made a homemade pie crust, but for this recipe a good quality prepared crust would work fine.

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