Boston-Style Steamed Brown Bread & Baked Beans

This week, I present two very different cooking styles than what I’m used to. I made a happy experiment of cooking traditional Bostonian food last weekend. That’s baked beans with steamed brown bread. The bread is cooked in old coffee cans, sealed and steamed in a big pot. The beans were what started this whole…

Long Cooked Broccoli

So this is yet another amazing recipe from Chez Panisse Vegetables.  I was taught that broccoli was supposed to be eaten barely cooked, so that it is still bright green, sweet and nutty.  Broccoli is delicious lightly steamed.   I am pretty sure that I tried this recipe initially out of curiosity.  Long cooked broccoli…