September 29, 2010
C&Z Turns Seven!
Today marks the seventh anniversary of Chocolate & Zucchini, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you, dear readers, for being here.
The past seven years have been, without a doubt, the fullest and the most exciting of my life, and it is in large part thanks to this blog and to you.
I feel lucky to have such an enthusiastic, curious, kind, positive, funny, helpful, thoughtful, articulate, inspiring and well-informed crowd gathered h...
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September 21, 2010
Raw Multiseed Crackers
Have you ever tried soaking flax seeds? If not, know that something eerie transpires as soon as your back is turned: while the seeds swell and absorb the water, they release a gel-like substance (called mucilage) so that next time you look, your bowl is filled with a kind of jiggly aspic in which the seeds are suspended.
This little trick makes flax seeds (also called linseeds, or graines de lin in French) particularly popular with raw food pr...
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September 14, 2010
Tomato Burger Buns
Good cheeseburgers aren't easy to come by in Paris, and in truth, the ones I enjoy the most are those we make ourselves for lunch on weekends, with homemade buns, organic ground beef from the Batignolles greenmarket, and slivers of comté cheese lounging on top.
Having gleefully discovered that I could buy portobello mushrooms at said greenmarket -- although we have plenty of the brown mushrooms we call champignons de Paris, the overgrown versi...
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September 7, 2010
Pattypan Squash and Pesto Soup
I've been a little hard on the patty pan squash, and for that I apologize.
About a year ago, I posted a recipe for Roasted Patty Pan Squash and Herbed Chickpeas, and wrote, "avoid patty pans that are larger than the palm of your hand: they will likely be watery and bland."
I do stand by my statement that young and small patty pan squashes have more flavor, better texture, and undoubtedly more kawaii appeal than their bigger brothers, but that...
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September 1, 2010
September 2010 Desktop Calendar
At the beginning of every month, I am offering C&Z readers a new wallpaper to apply on the desktop of your computer, with a food-related picture and a calendar of the current month.
Our calendar for September is a picture of blackberries taken at the greenmarket in Split when we traveled to Croatia two years ago. The produce on display was gorgeous, and we bought enough fruit -- including some of those plump berry clusters, called kupina in Cr...
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