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Vegetable salad with buttermilk and dates
May 4, 2009 at 1:00 am | Tags: buttermilk, cucumber, dairy, date, pepper, salad | No Comments
This is kind of like an Israeli salad bathed in buttermilk. I was inspired by all the creamy salads we had in Hungary, except there they use sour cream, and I prefer buttermilk. And fresh vegetables. The effect is creamy but light. Continue reading Vegetable salad with buttermilk and dates…
Quick soda bread with zaatar, sun-dried tomatoes, and more
March 21, 2009 at 1:00 am | Tags: bread, buttermilk, dairy, pine nuts, sun-dried tomatoes, zaatar | No Comments
In honor of St. Patrick’s day, apparently there’s been a debate raging about soda bread. The conclusion is that once you start adding things beyond flour, buttermilk and baking soda, it’s not traditionally Irish. Well, that’s fine with me. I added zaatar and sun-dried tomatoes to mine, and I make no claims of Irish authenticity. This is the Levant, after all.
Soda bread has a major advantage — it’s quick and easy. I wanted bread for breakfast, and this took max 30 minutes from start to finish. No kneading, rising, kneading rising again …. With that, I should note that since it uses baking soda and not yeast as the leavening agent, it has a taste of baking soda, not yeast. That means it comes out slightly salty. This is either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending how you look at it. But have I mentioned it’s quick? Continue reading Quick soda bread with zaatar, sun-dried tomatoes, and more…
Saturday morning buttermilk pancakes
December 21, 2008 at 1:02 am | Tags: brunch, buttermilk, dairy, pancake | 3 Comments
We usually make waffles instead of pancakes, and I remembered why when I poured my first batch of pancakes into the pan, and they promptly burned. My waffle iron produces tidy, consistent results, but pancakes take a little practice. In any case, once I stopped burning them, the pancakes tasted great. And to tell the truth, the burnt ones weren’t even that horrible. Continue reading Saturday morning buttermilk pancakes…
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