Sunday, December 5, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Lemon Curd Bars
I found this at allrecipes.com. It's different from most lemon bar recipes due to the lemon curd, coconut, and almonds.
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup unsalted butter
2 cups all-purpose flour (substituted millet flour)
1 cup white sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
10-oz. jar lemon curd
2/3 cup flaked coconut
1/2 cup toasted and chopped or slivered almonds
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter. Add flour, sugar, baking soda. Mix until coarse crumbs form.
3. Pat 2/3 of the crust mixture into the bottom of one 8-inch square baking dish or 9 X 13 baking pan. Bake at 375 degrees F for 10 minutes. Remove and cool.
4. Spread lemon curd over baked layer. Add coconut and almonds to remaining crumb mixture. Sprinkle over top of lemon curd.
5. Lower oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Bake for 25 minutes. Cool before serving.
Friday, March 5, 2010
More About Turkey
Librarian and quilter Kathie Enright Boucher recommended BIRDS WITHOUT WINGS, a fascinating historical novel by British author Louis de Bernieres. Finishing all 554 pages in about a week while I work and teach is testament in itself to this compulsively readable, resplendent, fascinating tale set in southwestern Anatolia. De Bernieres expertly weaves perninent chapters about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's remarkable life into the lives of his fictitious characters residing in a rural village at the end of the Ottoman Empire. Rich in vocabulary, BIRDS WITHOUT WINGS is an enchanting story.
Dr. Gill, art historian at the University of Maryland, recommended TRICKSTER TRAVELS: A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MUSLIM BETWEEN WORLDS by Natalie Zemon Davis, history professor at Princeton. I have only just begun reading this history of Leo Africanus who was born al-Hasan al-Wazzan to a Muslim family that moved to Morocco in 1492
Monday, March 1, 2010
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