Aliza's Recipes
The Soupmaker’s Kitchen: How to Save Your Scraps, Prepare a Stock, and Craft the Perfect Pot of Soup
The Soupmaker’s Kitchen is a complete guide to making soups, broths, potages, minestra, minestrone, bisques, and borscht. Learn how to set up your kitchen to use your ingredients most optimally—from saving vegetable scraps for stock to tips on freezing finished soups. Explore more than 100 soup recipes, plus variations on each one, from all over the…
Read MoreOven-Roasted Plum Tomatoes
Make these wonderful tomatoes when large, ripe plum tomatoes are plentiful. It’s really not worth making in quantities of less than five pounds, because the tomatoes shrink to about half their weight when baked. They are excellent on pizzas (such as the Sicilian Pan Pizza here) and in pasta sauces. If you remove some of…
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Senegalese Chicken Yassa
Serves 4 Description: This well-known Senegalese dish from the west coast of Africa consists of marinated chicken that is either broiled or browned and then simmered with lots of onions and fresh lemon juice. It is often served over broken rice, which has a special couscous-like texture all its own. While this custom began because…
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Muhammara (Pomegranate, Red Pepper and Pomegranate Dip)
Makes 3 cups This Turkish dip gets its name from brick, which it resembles in color. A tangy, easy-to-make combination of roasted red bell peppers, walnuts, pomegranate molasses, and cumin, it will be a welcome change on your table from the more common hummus and tahini dips. Serve the muhammara with vegetable crudités, toasted pita…
Read MoreCornmeal Pizza Dough
I have used this light but slightly crunchy pizza dough to make hundreds, if not thousands, of fabulous pizzas in the wood-burning oven in my last restaurant. Although traditional Neapolitan pizza dough is made only with flour, yeast, salt, and oil, this one has an American twist, combining bread flour for strength, all-purpose flour for…
Read MoreSicilian Pan Pizza With Zucca
Yield: 10 to 12 servings Ingredients: 1/4 pound (about 1 cup) oven-roasted plum tomatoes, purchased or homemade 1 pound Cornmeal Pizza Dough 1 (15-ounce) container whole-milk ricotta 2 ounces (1/2 cup ) grated Parmigiano-Reggiano or Grana Padano cheese 1 large egg 2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley and/or fresh basil 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg Fine…
Read MoreRose-scented Angel Food Cake
Yield: One 10-inch cake, 10 to 12 servings Cake 3 ounces unbleached all-purpose flour plus 1 ounce potato starch or 1/4 pound cake flour 11/2 cups superfine sugar 12 large egg whites (11/2 cups), at room temperature 1/2 cup lukewarm water 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 2 teaspoons rosewater 1…
Read MoreDanish Pastry Braid with Goat Cheese & Cardamom
Yield: About 2 pounds dough, enough for 2 large Danish; about 1 pound filling, enough for 1 large Danish Ingredients: 1/2 cup lukewarm milk 1 (1/4-ounce) package (21/4 teaspoons) active dry yeast 6 tablespoons sugar 3/4 pound (3 cups minus 3 tablespoons) unbleached all-purpose flour 2 ounces (1/2 cup minus 1/2 tablespoon) white whole wheat…
Read MoreSesame Sugar Snaps
Serving Size: 4 to 6 Ingredients: 1 pound sugar snap peas, stringed 1 tablespoon Asian roasted sesame oil 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon sesame seeds Directions: Heat sesame oil and butter together. Lightly brown sesame seeds Toss with sugar snaps and sauté 2 to 3 minutes, or until brightly colored. Sprinkle…
Read MoreHoney-Poached Quince
Quince trees used to abound all over the American landscape, but now they’ve become a somewhat exotic fruit, ready to be rediscovered, as they definitely were this year. Legend has it that these deeply lobed yellow fall fruits were Eve’s original temptation in the Garden of Eden. That might be so, based on their incredible…
Read MoreWest African Peanut Soup
Peanut soup appears on the menu in many African countries. This smooth, creamy version thickened with both peanuts and peanut butter gets its sweetness from yam. A warm reddish brown, the soup is fragrant with sweet spices, intensely flavored, earthy and piquant. Europeans brought peanuts from South America to Africa in the early 1500’s where…
Read MoreRed Onion Marmalade for Steaks
Ingredients: Serving Size: 8 3 red onions, sliced 3 tablespoons butter ½ cup red wine 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar 1½ teaspoons chopped thyme (or ½ teaspoon dried thyme) 2 tablespoons honey ½ teaspoon ground coriander ¼ teaspoon ground allspice Salt and black pepper to taste Directions: In a large non-reactive skillet, sauté the onion in…
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