Thursday, August 21, 2025
Ground Beef Pide
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Peach Tomato Radish Salad Bowl
I’m not much a salad-for-lunch person. Give me something heartier. And yes it can be paired with a salad! Summer peaches, garden grown cherry tomatoes and a huge basil plant have me making this salad often. There are no precise amounts. If you love peaches, add as many as you want. If sweet cherry tomatoes are your Achilles heel, use those in abundance. Thinly sliced radishes, goat cheese, basil leaves, extra virgin olive oil and a thin stream of pomegranate molasses enhance the salad. For me, this salad is on repeat mode.
PEACH TOMATO RADISH SALAD BOWL
Serves 2
2-3 ripe Peaches
6-10 Cherry Tomatoes
3-4 red Radishes
1/2 cup Goat Cheese crumbles
1/2 cup Basil Leaves
Kosher Salt
Fresh ground Black Pepper
Extra virgin Olive Oil
Pomegranate Molasses
Wash and dry peaches. Slice them thinly.
Cut cherry tomatoes in half.
Trim radishes and slice them very thin.
Arrange peaches, cherry tomatoes and radishes in a bowl.
Scatter goat cheese crumbles and basil leaves over the fruit.
Season with salt and pepper.
Drizzle olive oil and pomegranate molasses over salad.
Toss and eat.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Not Quite Golden Diner Pancakes
The NYT article claims the lines are out the door at the Golden Diner for this breakfast treat. Since I have no intention of standing in line for them, I attempt a homemade version.
Many steps need to be worked through. Not my kind of morning rigor, but I endeavor. After reading the recipe a few times I am taken aback by the copious amounts of maple syrup and butter. This calls for some simplification. Not small in size, they really turn out delicious, with a robust yeasty aroma and are immensely satisfying. Give them a whisk.
NOT QUITE GOLDEN DINER PANCAKES
Adapted from NYT Cooking
Serves 4
PANCAKES
2 1/4 teaspoons or 1 packet active dry Yeast
2 cups all purpose Flour
1 1/2 cups Buttermilk
1/4 cup Water
2 tablespoons Sugar
3/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 teaspoon Kosher Salt
2 Eggs
1/4 cup Vegetable Oil
SYRUP
2 tablespoons Butter
1/3 cup Honey
1/4 cup Maple Syrup
1 teaspoon Soy Sauce
Strawberries
Blueberries
Start the pancakes an hour before you want to eat them.
In a large bowl whisk yeast with 1 cup flour.
Heat buttermilk and water over low heat till lukewarm.
Pour buttermilk into the flour and whisk till smooth.
Cover with plastic wrap and set aside for 1 hour to ferment.
Make the syrup by combining butter, honey, maple syrup and soy sauce in saucepan.
Heat syrup for 3 -5 minutes till butter has melted. Stir often.
Heat oven to 350F/180C.
Mix remaining 1 cup flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in a bowl.
In another bowl, break eggs and whisk.
Add oil to eggs and whisk well.
Pour eggs into the fermented flour mix.
Add remaining flour mix in as well.
Use a spatula to mix everything till there are no specks of flour to be seen. The batter will be lumpy.
Heat a 7inch nonstick skillet over medium heat. You will not be using any oil or butter so it is essential to use a nonstick skillet.
When it is hot pour 1/3 cup batter into the pan.
Let it cook for 2-3 minutes. Check the underside. It should be golden brown. Flip and cook the other side for 1-2 minutes.
Take it off the pan and place on a baking sheet.
Place the baking sheet in the oven.
Repeat with the remaining batter, placing the pancakes on the baking sheet in the oven to keep them warm.
Serve 2 pancakes stacked on top of each other, bathed in the warm maple syrup with strawberries and blueberries.