Cavebear Recipes
I like to cook…
Cheese Breads
These make great finger-food, appetizers for gatherings.
Around our house they vanish fairly quickly.
They are fairly easy to make.
Latkes
Latkes are for many of us one of the ultimate comfort foods.
This recipe is derived from several sources.
First, it is related to another (perhaps not yet posted) for hash browns that I built on a recipie from the Ad Hoc At Home cookbook by Thomas Keller.
Second are various websites about Latkes, most particularly Great Grandmother’s Potato Pancakes Recipe at https://www.theseasonedmom.com/potato-pancakes/
I have reduced the amount of egg from the usual two to one. I simply do not like eggs.
I have substantially increased the amount of onion and have added curry powder.
This recipe is still under development.
Cheeseburgers
Cheesburgers are a not hard to make but they do deserve good quality ingredients.
These burgers have a fairly strong pepper quality.
The Pickapeppa sauce - https://www.pickapeppa.com/about adds both additional pepper and some sweetness.
I learned about Pickapeppa sauce from the old Hippo restaurant on Van Ness in San Francisco. And I picked up the idea for the thyme in the spice blend from the movie “The Best Years of Our Lives”.
The cooking time will, of course, vary depending on your preferences as well as the heat of the BBQ. Take care, however, not to overcook the beef. The cook time below (8 minutes total on the grill) leads to roughly medium (or perhaps a bit more) cooked. If you like it more rare, remove a minute, perhaps two, from the total cooking time.
Boregs
Boregs are from Armenia. All are made by wrapping phyllo (or pastry) dough around a filling.
The filling in this recipe is a combination of cheeses and herbs. Some recipes use filings that contain meat, typically lamb.
I also came up with a lemon-honey glaze that resembles a glaze from the old, and now long gone, Max and Son restaurant in Daly City, California - a rather unique place that was half New York deli and half Chinese.
These are not diet food.
This recipe is still under development.
Black and White Cookies
I grew up in LA with black and white cookies. When I moved north (to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas) I couldn’t find the.
So I had to make my own.
These contain a lot of sugar.
Strawberry Popsicles
These are really good, with a smooth texture.
I often adorn these with some bittersweet or semisweet chocolate that I’ve melted in a double boiler with some corn syrup, and then, before the chocolate hardens, I push some mint leaves onto the still-liquid chocolate.
Copied from Ultimate Strawberry Popsicles Recipe
Onion Bagels
A true bagel can be hard to find — they are not to be found in most supermarkets. Many restaurant “bagels” are simply round bread — boring. And real bagels are boiled — that is not something that is up for debate.
This recipe can be easily be modified to make plain (water), sesame, garlic, or other flavored bagels: just change-out the onion. Note, however, that after being boiled the bagels are not sticky and onions, seeds, or what-have-you will tend to slide off.
Citrus Chicken With Prunes
Saturday, 29 January 2017
This is an easy recipe to create a flavorful chicken: citrus and tangy. It takes about an hour.
BBQ Grilled Tomato Steaks
Tuesday, 12 June 2007 18:18
These are extremely easy to make.
They have a robust flavor - not at all your wimpy, just lie-there-on-the-plate, kind of tomatoes. I’ve found these to go well with lamb, beef, and strong fish (like salmon.)
I have found momotaro tomatoes to be by far the best variety for this. The momotaro is a solid tomato that has good flavor, can be carved into thick "steaks", and stands up to marinating and grilling. I usually use the largest ones I can find.
I find that one tomato "steak" per person is about right.
Recently I’ve been adding a layer of shredded parmasean cheese so that it melts to form a cap when grilling. When I do this I don’t flip the tomotoes when they are on the BBQ.