While this is true for the individual, hizzer companions may beg to differ!Garlic is on of those ingredients that's almost impossible to use to much ....
Stuck at home for awhile,so I’m baking..
This is an old Italian recipe I learned from Angelina,my late mother in law
Make enough dough for a loaf of bread and let it rise to double size
Take a head of escarole and tear it up tossing out the harder white bits
Sauté some fresh garlic in olive oil in your largest pan
Add about 1/3- 1/2 of the escarole for just 2-3 minutes ,remove from the pan and continue with the next batch til it’s all been sautéed
Roll out the dough on a floured surface until it’s nice and thin
Pat the escarole dry with paper towels then spread it and the garlic evenly over the dough. Sprinkle a bunch of black olive slices over the surface. Open a tin of anchovies,break them up and sprinkle evenly over the dough
Roll it up like a newspaper and pinch the ends shut. Let it rise for 45 minutes or so.
At my elevation I bake it at 350° for about 40 minutes depending on how oily the greens are
I’ll add pix when it’s done ( if I don’t forget [emoji6])
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Ready for the oven (40 minutes and counting [emoji16])
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I'm going to be smoking chicken thighs.
Ack! I have been craving a good fruit tart in butter pastry. There was a cooking show on the other day that was a repeat from last year that caused me to make a peach and blackberry tart in a butter crust. OMG was that good. Seeing it the other day has had me craving it but I obviously didn’t make it (way too hot to fire up the oven).Oh man, my mouth was watering. I saw that title and I immediately imagined my friend's Zwetschgenwahe, or Swiss Plum Pie. She made it from scratch for lunch every other day, all year long, from plums off her tree.
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I do an olive and onion bread using cured black olives (wrinkled). Also, a spinach bread. Those little fishies are a non-starter around here.
For us, Escarole is usually made with Cannellini beans.
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Thank you for that! It has gone into my recipe file. I’m 77 and remember something like that from my youth, your mom will live on in this household.Feeding a family of five on an NCO's salary was difficult but mom pulled it off nicely. She came from a family that could make a meal out of what was available.
In the 70's she wrote this recipe out for me as it was cheap, easy and delicious. It was one of my first forays into baking.
The handwriting is hers. The stains are mine.
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