Another detour from the grains cookbook. Deal with it.
Part of my morning routine involves browsing food blogs and copying recipes that look really good. The fact that I will have to live to be 300 years old to try every recipe that I’ve copied doesn’t deter me in the least.
One of those blogs is written by Mark Bittman. Besides being a cookbook author, Bittman also writes a food column for the NY Times. His recipes are usually quick and easy; I don’t think I’ve tried a bad one yet. So, when I saw the video and recipe for his Parmesan Cream Crackers, I didn’t even try to resist. Next thing I knew, I was in the kitchen dumping flour, salt, parmesan and butter into the food processor. Add some milk, process a bit and less than 5 minutes later, I had cracker dough. Five minutes after that, I had the dough in the oven. Seriously, it was that easy.
I took some liberties with the recipe. First, I thought I had cream but I didn’t. So I used milk. I also added some dried rosemary to the dough and sprinkled coarse salt on top. The only issue I had with the recipe is it says to roll the dough out to a 1/2-inch thickness. I thought that was way too thick for crackers, so I went to about 1/8 of an inch. I probably should have cooked the crackers a little longer; the ones in the middle weren’t quite crunchy. However, that didn’t stop us from eating them all for lunch.
Yummy! I do love me a cook cracker, or two, or three, or, heck. Who’s counting?
Wonderful! I have been searching and searching for the perfect cracker recipe, but they all turn out too soggy or greasy or tasting like pie crust. Please send me this recipe and I will be eternally grateful!
Well Linda I will say this, if she makes cream puffs then tastes them and throws them away, that is a sin in anyone’s book and us poor starving (ha ha) people are going to be very unhappy. She could at least just put them on the front porch for us. And a tea party would be nice.
I thought crackers came from the Elves in the tree. I had no idea you could make them! Does this make you part of the Keebler family? You’re pretty tall for an elf but you could probably have plastic surgery to add the pointed ear bit. The height tho, that’s going to be a problem. Low doorways and all…
I’m going to copy the recipe and see if someone will make me a batch. No way I’d try it myself. My cooking confidence abandoned me years ago. Did you add sugar to any of these?
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Hey Ma Sully, if she makes cream puffs, we need to have a tea party!
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM I love Parmesan……………Gonna make me cook one of these days I swear. I gave up cooking a long time ago and haven’t missed it until all these things you are making look and sound so good. How about a cream puff recipe and pictures. Which is my favorite thing by the way……