Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'granola'
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....
Food Bloggers Have The Best Recipes (Luisa's Potato Focaccia, Molly's Chocolate Granola)
Newspaper recipes don't excite me. With their perfect margins, their definitive type, their antiseptic language, I very rarely open the Wednesday Food Section of The New York Times, read a recipe, and run home to make it. Perhaps it's a function of old media vs. new media, in that the old media feels creaky and irrelevant whereas the new media--by which I mean food blogs--are fresh and accessible and offer real recipes by real people with real personas that aren't whitewashed or edited, but vivid and alive....
