When I first moved to Brooklyn there was only one fancy restaurant in my immediate neighborhood. It was called The New Prospect Cafe and it was on Flatbush, across the street from where the Jamaican Patty place used to be. With its small seasonal menu, it was a harbinger of Brooklyn’s culinary future. When I…
Tag: breakfast
Gluten-Free Cherry Clafouti
Clafouti is a baked fruit custard. It is a French dish that (I feel) was invented by particularly unfussy and homey French people. I love clafouti because it reminds me of a delicious custardy apple cake that my Estonian grandmother used make. She would slice and layer apples into a baking pan and then…
Huevos Rancheros (and other Mexican breakfast)
I am a lover of breakfast and also lover of Mexican food. A few days a week during the school year I teach near a cafe that makes really good Huevos Rancheros. I eat “lunch” with the kindergarteners at 10:30 AM so I order Huevos Rancheros…or rather the lady at the cafe sees me coming…
2 Kinds of Gluten-Free Pancakes and Caramelized Fruit Topping
First of all my sister already posted a really delicious recipe for gluten-free lemon ginger pancakes a while back, which you all should try. I cannot take any credit for the two pancake recipes posted here. They are from the back of Bob’s Red Mill Amaranth Flour and Coconut Flour packages respectively (with a…
Gluten-Free Quiche
My mother has a lot of friends who are boat people. People who built their wooden boat by hand or restored an old fishing boat or catamaran before sailing it to New Zealand, or Fiji or Hawaii. She married one of them when I was nine (my dad John Berry). I wholeheartedly approved of the…
Tomato and Cream Cheese Omelet
Once upon a time, my friends Alex and Katherine took me to a diner in Portland, Maine for an excellent Tomato Omelet. When I crave that omelet, this is what I make. Of course there are all kinds of delicious omelet fillings! I will list some suggestions in the recipe. The hash browns pictured here…
Cornmeal Custard Topped Spoon Bread (Gluten-Free)
A while back I posted a cornmeal custard topped spoon bread recipe. My first gluten-free version didn’t work, so I just posted the original. This gluten-free version worked out nicely and it is not any harder to make it this way than the original. It maintains all of the recipe’s magical qualities….You just throw everything…
Better gluten-free popovers
I posted a recipe for gluten-free popovers in the post A Menu in Honour of Broccoli Soup. I’ve been experimenting, and I think that this recipe is better. It uses Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free flour mix (Garbanzo, fava bean, tapioca and sourghum flours with potato starch) instead of the rice, tapioca and potato mix…
Excellent Potato Pancakes (gluten-free)
I am not sure if my potato pancakes are Rosti or Latkes or Hash browns but they are truly excellent. The ingredients and technique for making these pancakes are simple. The secret is in the tools….An old fashioned coarse grater called The Wonder Shredder and a well seasoned, wide cast iron skillet. I got my Wonder Shredder…
Cornmeal Custard Topped Spoon Bread
This is a magical recipe from the New Joy of Cooking. You throw a bunch of things in baking pan with very little care and when it comes out of the oven it is a delicious corn spoon bread with a layer of custard on top. Magic! I tried to make a gluten-free version recently…
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