by Lori Lange on October 11, 2011
Cover recipe from Sunset, October 2011
Pumpkin Soup with Pumpkin Seed- Mint Pesto
I love Sunset Magazine. I love that it’s full of travel stories and places I feel I must visit soon. I tear out pages and keep them in my “vacation” folder for times that my husband and I are looking for somewhere new to visit. The recipes in the magazine are almost always winners. Sometimes they’re recipes featured from places traveled, and sometimes they’re just features based on the season.
This month’s cover of Sunset Magazine- Living in the West is beautiful. There’s no doubt about that. It displays a pumpkin soup in miniature roasted pumpkins, with earthy fall dinnerware to boot. It’s perfect for October. The cover is highlighting Tasty Fall Soups & Stews- Recipes to Warm Up Your Weeknights.
There’s a lot more to the recipes in the food section of the magazine this month than just soups and stews. There are also quick & easy dinners, a few Moroccan recipes and a fall salad. The cover recipe actually comes from a feature on cooking with pumpkin called, “Beyond the Pie.” There is Cashew, Coconut and Pumpkin Curry, Pumpkin Gingersnap Ice Cream, Caramelized Orange Pumpkin Flan, and then there is this soup. Read my tips below to see what I thought of this cover recipe…
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by Lori Lange on July 26, 2011
Cover recipe from Real Simple, July 2011
Nectarine Galette
What a fun cover for Real Simple to display in the summer, when everyone is looking for no-fuss, easy recipes: 3-Ingredient Recipes- fast, fresh and delicious. They feature these as Three Ingredient Summer Recipes. It’s a little bit of a stretch to call them (3) ingredient recipes. What they fail to mention is that there are 3 main ingredients, with basics like olive oil, butter, salt and pepper added in here and there to create the whole recipe. So basically, if you’re one that always has the extras in your house, you only really have to hunt down 3 ingredients to make the recipes. Pretty cool for busy people.
There are quite a few recipes on the cover. I chose the one I thought looked most appetizing to try out, though many of the 3 ingredient recipes looked worthy of trying. Read my notes below to see what I thought of the Nectarine Galette…
Nectarine Galette
Source: Real Simple, July 2011
ingredients:
1 refrigerated rolled piecrust
3 thinly sliced nectarines or peaches
2 Tablespoons turbinado sugar
2 Tablespoons cut-up unsalted butter
additional turbinado sugar
instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. with the rack in the lowest position.
2. Place piecrust on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Leaving a 2-inch border, top with nectarine slices. Sprinkle with turbinado sugar and cut-up butter. Fold the edges of the dough toward the center, overlapping slightly and partially covering the fruit. Brush the dough with 2 teaspoons water and sprinkle with 1 Tablespoon turbinado sugar.
3. Bake until juices are bubbling and the crust is golden (tent with foil if the crust browns too quickly), 35 to 40 minutes.
Serves: 4
Tips from Culinary Covers:
*This was a very straightforward recipe. I see no need to make your own crust, unless you despise the taste of store bought crust. All of my taste-testers thought the crust was perfectly delicious, and I just bought a plain-old store brand.
*I used nectarines for this recipe. No need to peel them. The galette would be equally good with fresh peaches too.
*Turbinado sugar is not something that most home cooks have on hand. If you have chunky sparkling sugar, that would work just fine. And if you don’t have either of those sugars, I don’t really see any reason why you can’t use plain old granulated sugar.
*This recipe was perfectly delicious and super simple- just as written. It’s a no-brainer for anyone- home cooks, non cooks, etc. It’s simple and impressive and a perfect dessert for summer nectarines. We loved it.
Did this recipe deserve the cover spotlight? Yes! It’s the perfect example of taking a simple set of ingredients and combining them to make something impressive and good. It was fast. It was fresh. It was delicious. (just as the cover promises)
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