aj12754's Profile

From: Montclair, NJ USA

Joined: November 22nd, 2009

About me: I can't be the only person who starts thinking about what to cook next while I am doing the dishes for the meal I just finished eating ... right?

Favorite cookbook: I flirt with all of them. But I am a sucker for good writing and great pictures.

Favorite recipe: Pretty much any combo of good bread and great cheese.

Slow-Roasted Tomatoes from One Good Dish

A dish that could not be simpler to make, and absolutely delicious. Topped the cooled tomato with a room temperature slice of mozzarella drizzled with EVOO and some ribbons of basil. A real treat. read more >

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The Cheese Course

By Janet Fletcher
Chronicle Books - 2000

I really love goat cheese and Humboldt Fog is lovely goat cheese. I wanted to like the cheese with this bread more than I did, but I would have preferred a slightly sweeter yeast bread than this. The recipe includes 1/3 cup of shallots and I found the flavor of the bread a little too onion-y which I thought competed with rather than complementing the cheese. Also, I thought the recipe needed a bit more salt to bring out the flavor, as well as more liquid as it was a bit dry.

If I make this again (although there are enough walnut bread recipes out there that I may just move on to another recipe), I will omit the onions entirely, add some sugar or maybe honey, and throw in some dried cranberries.

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