Panettone - Not Your Momma’s Fruitcake
December 24, 2009 – 1:08 pm | 12 Comments

Merry Christmas to all Mamaliga fans! Here’s another try at baking Panettone from The Bread Baker’s Apprentice book for the BBA Challenge. I didn’t blog about it initially since there were some things I wanted to tweak and adapt from his original formula. Quite a few changes.

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The Universal Mushroom Sauce
November 15, 2008 – 10:53 pm | 11 Comments
The Universal Mushroom Sauce

In days when the inspiration muse doesn’t strike, it is always helpful to fall back on some good old recipes you know and tried before. One of them is my mushroom sauce.
A humble sauce but …

Bistecca Chicagolina
October 6, 2008 – 12:59 pm | 11 Comments
Bistecca Chicagolina

This weekend I took a shot at the as-close-as-I-can-get-to American version of the Bistecca Fiorentina, Florence’s signature steak introduced a century ago and made famous by Italy’s greatest food writer, Pellegrino Artusi.

Weekend in Review 9-28-08
September 29, 2008 – 8:33 pm | 3 Comments
Weekend in Review 9-28-08

It is usually Friday and Sunday when it is my turn to cook in the Bucataru household. So I thought of posting a weekly review of what I whipped together in the weekend
Mushroom Stuffed Galantined …