A Homemade Press
I bought a focaccia at the Union Square farmers' market Monday on my day off, and last night Todd and I had some pretty good pressed sandwiches with some of the leftovers from our feast on Sunday. Todd had mozzarella, roasted pepper and proscuitto, and I had eggplant, squash, mozzarella and proscuitto.
I wasn't sure it would work, but the focaccia got really crisp and thin. I heated my cast-iron round grill pan for a while (cast-iron is a slow conductor of heat, I've heard, so I knew it would hold the heat for long enough to cook the sandwiches). Then I heated my round nonstick skillet, put the sandwiches in, topped them with the hot cast-iron pan and pressed down to compress the sandwiches. The cast-iron pan fit perfectly inside the other pan and both the top and bottom of the sandwiches got toasted at once.
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Tickled minds want to know : would you share your fantastic and rich coconut macaroon recipe, pretty please?
and i have a reipe for mulligatawny that deserves some kind of niche in the stretch called posterity: would you like it?
Clotide - It's a recipe I got from Epicurious.com (chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons; http://food.epicurious.com/run/recipe/view?id=11607). The first time I made them I was looking for something special to dip in chocolate fondue, so I made the basic macaroons. I use a little less sugar than the recipe calls for, 1 cup instead of 1 1/3, and I bake them on a silpat. Awesome and chewy, especially when they're dripping with warm, melted chocolate.
I like your site. You reminded me that the Chocolate Show in New York is coming up. Maybe it'd be fun to go.
Lynn - I've never made mulligatawny, but I'd love to try your recipe. Do you have other recipes you tend to return to again and again? I have a chocolate pudding from, believe it or not, the Cooking Thin cookbook, and a really easy bread pudding that I frequently make when I need to use up stale bread. Buttermilk pancakes from the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, biscuits (my husband's specialty), a dough for pizza, some snack cake recipes, but nothing dinner-y. A spinach, chickpea, garlic and pasta combo that I made for dinner tonight. Seriously, I need to start repeating some recipes.
Kim - Thanks for pointing me to the recipe! It's *very* tempting!
I'm glad you like my blog. By all means, do go to the NY Chocolate Show, and tell us all about it! It might alleviate the grief over the oven, too... :)