Category: appetizer

• ricotta dinner rolls

  

  It turns out you can substitute ricotta for sour cream with good results! This recipe for sour cream yeast rolls was the base recipe, and I simply substituted ricotta cheese for the sour cream. It worked out great! ricotta dinner rolls  ingredients  2 and 1/2 cups all purpose flour 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 2 and […]

  Dave G

  February 24, 2022

  appetizer, baked goods, baking, bread, dinner rolls, yeast breads

  dinner rolls, ricotta, ricotta cheese, rolls

• curried salmon chowder in bread bowls

  

  Greetings! This is not related to this blog post, but I just wanted to let you know that I deleted my personal Facebook account. Can’t really get into the many reasons why I did this, only that I felt a huge weight has been lifted once I hit the delete button. It was time. Unfortunately, […]

  Dave G

  October 26, 2021

  appetizer, baked goods, baking, bread, bread flour, buns, dinner rolls, food blogging, savory, yeast breads

  bread bowl recipe, bread bowls, cilantro, coconut milk curry rice soup, coriander, cumin, curried rice chowder, curried rice soup, curried salmon chowder, curry stew, delicious day, fish sauce, homemade bread bowl, Kedgeree, lime juice, lime zest, Nigella lawson, poahced salmon, salmon chowder, salmon soup, soupr bowl, stew, turmeric

• croque madame bread pudding

  

  Greetings! This is a bread pudding version of a French dish that is basically a ham and cheese sandwich served hot with extra cheese, a Bechamel sauce, and a sunny side egg on top. I wanted to make a bread pudding recipe that looked more orderly and layered the bread with the other ingredients, rather […]

  Dave G

  October 3, 2021

  appetizer, baking, bread pudding, brunch, casseroles, food blogging, sandwich, side dish

  bechamel sauce, bread pudding, casserole, croque madame, croque monsieur, ham and cheese, ham and cheese bread pudding, ham and cheese sandwich, terrine

• garlic rolls

  

  Greetings! I know garlic confit sounds a little fancy, but it’s basically slow cooking a bunch of peeled garlic cloves in oil in a 200 degree F. oven to bring out their sweetness as well as make them soft and spreadable. This takes about 2 hours in the oven, though, so if you’d rather not, […]

  Dave G

  May 13, 2021

  appetizer, baked goods, baking, bread, brunch, buns, dinner, dinner rolls, food blogging, garlic, olive oil, extra virgin olive oil, savory, side dish, yeast breads

  garlic confit, garlic rolls, marjoram, parmesan garlic rolls, roasted garlic rolls, rolls, rosemary, sage

• cotija cheese gougeres

  

  I wanted to make gougeres with a Mexican cheese, called Cojita, which is named after a town in the state of Michoacan. There are two types of cotija cheese, fresh and aged. I used the aged kind, cotija añejo, which is harder and drier, like parmesan. I added slightly less salt than the original recipe […]

  Dave G

  May 3, 2021

  appetizer, baked goods, baking, cheese puffs, choux pastry, choux pastry,, food blogging, french, pate a choux, snack

  cheese puffs, cotija cheese puffs, cotija gougeres, gougeres, pate a choux

• Fougasse aux Herbes de Provence

  

  This recipe is the same one from the BBC recipe for Fresh Herb Fougasse. The only difference is that I used Herbes de Provence in place of the fresh herbs. It was enjoyable to make this, and irresistible to eat. I figured that since Fougasse is the French equivalent to Italian focaccia, why not add […]

  Dave G

  December 6, 2020

  appetizer, baked goods, baking, bread, bread flour, flatbread, flatbreads, focaccia, food blogging, french, yeast breads

  flat bread, fougasse, fougasse aux herbes de provence, herbes de provence, herbs de provence, maldon sea salt

• mushroom mini popovers

  

  I think what I really like about these is how they taste like mushrooms and even look a little like mushrooms! I’m not sure why, but I was convinced that popovers and mini popovers would only be good right out of the oven and would quickly become unappetizing if they sat and got cold. This […]

  Dave G

  July 13, 2020

  appetizer, baked goods, baking, buns, food blogging, savory, snack

  cremini mushrooms, mini popovers, mushroom mini popovers, mushroom popovers, porcini mushrooms, porcini powder, shallot butter, shallot thyme butter

• olive focaccia

  

  You can really use any kind of topping or toppings, I just happen to really like manzanilla olives with pimientos. You can also double the recipe but use the same pan for a thicker loaf of focaccia, especially if you want to cut pieces in half horizontally for sandwiches. I usually don’t make sandwiches using […]

  Dave G

  May 28, 2020

  appetizer, baked goods, baking, focaccia, food blogging, olives, yeast breads

  foacaccia bread, manzanilla olives, olive oil, pimientos, stuffed olives

• rosemary cranberry pine nut crisps

  

  What a difference one little ‘s’ makes. I’m talking about crisps! This is not the recipe where you bake fruit in a casserole dish with a crunchy topping of brown sugar, butter, and flour. Crisps are crisp, crunchy, twice-baked slices of quick bread that are more like crackers than slices of bread. They are like […]

  Dave G

  November 20, 2019

  appetizer, baked goods, baking, bread, crisps, food blogging, fruit, quick bread, snack

  cheese board crackers, crackers, cranberry, crisps, pine nuts, rosemary