Tag Archives: baking

Root-Top Pie

By Alexa | Published: June 3, 2009
Spinach pie, it’s not just for spinach anymore! This week’s CSA box was chock full of root vegetables:  Japanese white salad turnips, French breakfast radishes, and beets, all with their green-tops nicely intact.  This often discarded part of the vegetable is delicious, and can be treated just like spinach: either steamed, sauteed, or boiled. When [...]
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Making fresh, beautiful bread doing little more than watching and waiting

By Matthew | Published: December 16, 2008
I have a busy schedule. I would never have thought that I would be capable of baking an artisanal style crusty bread with minimal effort, and minimal ingredients, in the middle of the week,  but that’s exactly what I just did (I actually made two), and you can too.  On Monday night I decided I’d [...]
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Mexican Comfort Food

By Matthew | Published: December 15, 2008
I discovered this dish on foodnetwork.com a couple of years ago and it has stuck in the repertoire ever since. It’s sort of like a Mexican lasagna, with a great smokey spice from the chipotle. This recipe is easy enough to put together for a midweek dinner, and the leftovers make an equally good lunch. [...]
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Rustic (and easy!) Dinner Rolls

By Matthew | Published: December 10, 2008
Sustainable Pantry played host to a dinner party on Saturday night, where we executed a menu from Eric Ripert’s blog aveceric.com as part of a dinner social contest.  We’ll be submitting a photo for the contest this week (wish us luck!).  You can read more about the contest here. One thing that wasn’t listed on [...]
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Cornmeal Biscuits

By Alexa | Published: November 16, 2008
I woke up wanting biscuits. Biscuits are very easy and quick to make with pantry ingredients and they are DELICIOUS out of the oven. I started with Martha Stewart’s recipe for Cornmeal Drop Biscuits (From Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook), and made a few changes. Cornmeal Biscuits 1.5 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 cup cornmeal 2 teaspoons [...]
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