The Delicious Cooking

August 4, 2009

Eggplant Gratin (Gratin D’Aubergines, Provencal)

Filed under: Julia Child, Vegetables, cheese, eggplant, tomatoes, vegetarian — The Delicious Cooking @ 10:44 am
The upcoming release of the movie Julie & Julia (August 7, 2009) has ignited discussions about cooking and blogging and caused me to reflect on my own cooking journey. Cooking always seemed like a big mystery to me when I was growing up. My grandmothers were both talented Southern cooks and seemed to hardly measure [...]

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July 31, 2009

Zucchini and Tomato Gratin

Filed under: Grow Your Own, Vegetables, cheese, gluten-free, low-fat, tomatoes, vegatarian — The Delicious Cooking @ 1:00 am
We’ve reached that magical point in the summer where the tomatoes are starting to ripen. For a couple days we brought in only a handful of sweet cherry, grape, sun gold, or yellow pear tomatoes, but in the last few days we’ve brought in almost nine pounds of tomatoes and have more on the way. [...]

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March 25, 2009

As Soon as Humanly Possible

Filed under: cheese, dining in, french — The Delicious Cooking @ 12:42 am

As quickly as you can, get this insanely delicious morsel of amazingness into your mouth. You will not regret it.

Take a slice of baguette, spread with Brillat-Savarin cheese, drizzle with white truffle honey. Oh, holy.

Last night was our first planning meeting for this year's incarnation of the No Cookie Left Behind bake sale. We had a potluck dinner at the lovely Ann Le's house, and Heather Taylor, also lovely, provided this outstanding combination. We had quite a spread, but it was this combo that had us all swooning. Between the creamy, and the sticky sweet, and the heady musk of black truffles, well, just, oh, holy.

Heather got the truffle honey from Surfas, and the cheese from Monsieur Marcel. The Brillat-Savarin was wonderful, but any soft creamy cheese like Brie or a triple-cream would do great. Just stop what you're doing right now and get it to your mouth. No, seriously. Run.

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