February 2015

Italian Vegetable Stew (Ciambotta)

Italian Vegetable Stew (Ciambotta)
Source of Recipe
America's Test Kitchen
Serves/Makes/Yields
6 to 8

Italy’s ciambotta is a ratatouille-like stew chock-full of veggies that makes for a hearty one-bowl meal with nary a trace of meat. We wanted to avoid the ill fate of most recipes, which end in mushy vegetables drowning in a weak broth. In order to optimize the texture of the zucchini and peppers, we employed the dry heat of a skillet. To address the broth, we embraced eggplant’s natural tendency to fall apart and cooked it until it completely assimilated into a thickened tomato-enriched sauce.

Grain-Free Cauliflower Crust Pizza

Cauliflower Crust Pizza
Source of Recipe
The Lucky Penny Blog, February 18, 2013
Serves/Makes/Yields
Makes one approx. 10-12 inch pizza

Yep. I'm making that claim and I'm sticking with it. This IS the BEST cauliflower pizza crust you will ever make. I've worked out the kinks from my previous cauliflower crust and from all other cauliflower crust posts I've read, and I'm confident that this pizza, this very one here, with a crust made out of a vegetable, is so damn delicious that you won't even think twice about the whole crust being made out of a vegetable thing. And yes, you can slice it and pick it up like a real piece of pizza.