Italian

Tiramisu

The February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home and Baking Obsession.

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Homemade Cannoli

The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and The Sopranos Family Cookbook by Allen Rucker; recipes by Michelle Scicolone, as ingredient/direction guides. She added her own modifications/changes, so the recipe is not 100% verbatim from either book.

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Earl Grey Panna Cotta

I was thinking about afternoon tea when I decided to try this variation of panna cotta. If Earl Grey tea tastes wonderful with a dab of milk, why not cream with a dab of Earl Grey?

There are a couple of things I might change the next time I make this recipe (which I present in the original below - modify it in whatever way works for you!):

• Use a tea strainer or fine mesh sieve to remove the leaves, not a standard strainer.
• Use less tea. A little goes a long way.

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Oxtail Osso Bucco

We were at Uwajimaya last week and found a huge pack of oxtail for a good price - so we brought it home and decided to try out the whole Osso Bucco thing, something we'd been meaning to try. We got this recipe out of Lidia's Italian Kitchen - it was a veal ossobucco recipe, and modified it to work in the crock pot. At the end of the night there was a rich, velvety sauce to pour over wheatberries, something we substituted for risotto. Perhaps the only strange thing was that we noticed, mid-bite, that the bones were all vertebrae, something I don't think either of us had expected.

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