The Food Club

Hooray for Bread

Finally, a book that is teaching kids what’s really important.

Chickpea flour pancakes

They are more dense and savory than regular flour pancakes. I just had butter on hand to put on them, but they might be good with some of Trader Joe’s Mango Chutney or Tzatziki sauce.

All I want in life is whipped butter. There’s something about it’s wonderful fluffiness that makes it superior to regular butter. Here is a picture from breakfast with Leah at Mindy’s Hot Chocolate.
The Mexican hot chocolate (with cinnamon and cayenne) was perfect. Not too sweet or rich. The food was delicious and fresh and they receive most of their ingredients from local producers.

So wrong it’s right

French fries, ground beef, cheddar cheese. Hamburger pizza. So good. From Big G’s Pizza.

A fine, fine line

It’s a fine line between genius and madness. This is one of those cases. My friend Sam and I had a craving for nachos made out of TJ’s Cheese Crunchies. While I think the shape of Cheese Crunchies don’t really make good nacho chips, melted Mexican shredded cheese on top of them is definitely good stuff. I think it needs some chopped jalepenos, onions, and tomatoes. Or maybe some of Trader Joe’s Hatch Valley Salsa. However you eat them, these cheesey delights are sure to cause a food coma.

Better with Bacon

Isn’t everything?

Saw this on my RSS feed. Here’s the original article, titled Roasted Cabbage with Bacon.

Prepped for the oven.

Out of the oven:

Final plating.

Maryann REALLY enjoyed this. I guess I will be making this again.

Brocolli di Rabe With Sausage and Polenta

We had some Hot Italian Sausage from Paulina Market. So, I devised the following.

First, browned up the sausages.

Made polenta, using Bob’s Red Mill. Added butter and Parmesan.

Cooked Brocolli di Rabe by blanching, and them cooking in olive oil, sausage drippings, red pepper and garlic. Deglazed with some white wine for good measure. I basically followed this approach: Rapini Recipe.