Monthly Archives: May 2011

Homemade Pasta

Mixing pasta dough/Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman

How-to-make-pasta instructions almost always include putting flour on your counter or board, forming a well and cracking your eggs into the well.  I almost always wind up with egg white on my shoe when I do this.  It only dawned on me while working on the pasta dough ratio for Ratio that this well method was completely unnecessary and that I would never have to wipe egg white off my shoe again.  The dough is thoroughly mixed and kneaded till smooth so how you incorporate the eggs isn't critical. I imagine the original reason for the well method was that it saved on cleaning a bowl, but I would rather clean a bowl than my shoe and floor.  The well method ...

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Pop Up Dinner “Cube”

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On a Stick!

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No Photos Please

3 states have pending legislation that would make it illegal to take photos on farms, learn more about this at Slow Food USA.    

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How To Make a Foie Gras au Torchon

foie gras torchon

How to make torchon de foie gras (This finished dish—foie, diced Granny Smith apple, toast, balsamic—and all slideshow pix below by Donna Turner Ruhlman)

Great foie gras fun going on in this household ever since del Grosso asked me to write about the foie gras au torchon he and Pardus's created for Hudson Valley Foie Gras. It's an excellent product.  And it was fun showing people that serving foie gras doesn't require a Catholic-length production, but can be simple and casual. Sometimes, though, you do want to elevate it, make it yourself and serve it to people you care about.  So herewith, a step-by-step slideshow of the foie gras au torchon, one of the greatest culinary preparations known to man.  I first learned about ...

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