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January 16th, 2011

Roasted Polenta from The Zuni Cafe Cookbook: A Compendium of Recipes and Cooking Lessons from San Francisco's Beloved Restaurant

I agree that the recommended temperature of 275 seems too low for roasting much of anything. I presumed it was a typo and went for a temperature of 375 right off the bat. I poured my polenta (prepared... read more >


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How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food

By Mark Bittman, Alan Witschonke
Wiley - 2007

This recipe produced one of the most visually unappealing dishes I have ever created: tan-brown chunks of eggplant dolloped with tan-yellow saffron mayonnaise.

The salad tasted okay -- as do most things involving garlic and mayonnaise, in my opinion. If I were to make it again, I'd probably grill slices of eggplant and keep the skin on rather than, as Bittman suggests, splitting the eggplant lengthwise, cooking them and then peeling and chopping them.

Given that there are so many other tasty way to cook eggplant, though, I don't think I'll bother with this recipe again.

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6th April 2010

Muffins, Infinite Ways : page 692

Not too sweet, not excessively oily, and with suggestions for a number of variations, this is a great basic muffin recipe. I made these with frozen cranberries and cornmeal substituted for some of the flour.

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