Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'Baked'
My Love Affair with Grits
[Hey, this is Adam The Amateur Gourmet. I'm on vacation in Barcelona, Spain and while I'm gone I've asked some awesome people to fill in for me. The first awesome person on the docket is the co-proprietor of one of the best bakeries in all of New York, Mr. Matt Lewis of Baked. I love Baked (see here) and I love their cookbook and I'm honored that Matt wrote this guest post. So thank you Matt--take it away!] I have lived in New York for over 14 years now, but I still romanticize my time spent in the South. More specifically: Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Even more specifically, my alma mater The University of Alabama. By and large, I have many positive memories from this time. I specifically remember the inexpensive rent (I had an entire floor of a huge Southern home to myself for 300 bucks a month), the wide-open spaces, the Southern gentility, the sweet tea, and the food. I also remember waking up in a ditch 20 miles from campus after a night of acid (do people still drop acid?), vodka, and a bad Metallica cover band. But I digress....
Baked
Ok, class, we're about to take a field trip: does everyone have a trip buddy? Find a buddy now. David Lebovitz, no, you can't be buddies with Perez Hilton: he's not in our class. This is a food class, not a gossip class, ok? Now then, I hope you're all hungry because we're about to visit one of the best bakeries not only in Brooklyn, but all of New York; it's a bakery with an awesome cookbook from which I made that easy homemade granola and also those oatmeal cookies with cardamom. Remember those? Well then you should be excited because here we are: welcome to Baked!...
"Baked" Oatmeal Cookies with Cardamom
The title of this post is a misrepresentation: the recipe I'm about to share does not advertise the fact that it contains cardamom. In fact, the recipe--from my new favorite baking book, Baked: New Frontiers in Baking--is titled "Oatmeal Cherry Nut Cookies," a title that doesn't mention cardamom at all. But cardamom was what caught my eye as I decided to make these cookies for dessert last week at 11 PM; so much so, that I didn't even stop when I realized I didn't have nuts or dried cherries. Cardamom would carry the day and carry the day it did....
Easy Homemade Granola
Now that I'm a health guru you might suspect that I made granola last week because of my new fitness regimen. But you'd be wrong, very wrong indeed; I made granola last week because of the newest cookbook in my collection, a gorgeous cookbook that I bought for my friend Lisa's 30th birthday and that I secretly wished I'd kept for myself. But then the publisher offered to send me a review copy and I was in heaven. The book in question is "Baked: New Frontiers in Baking" by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito of the Baked Bakery in Red Hook and next to Martha Stewart's Baking Book this may quickly become my favorite baking book in my collection....
