The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook

Acknowledgments 8 Preface 9 Introduction 11 Menus for Family Gatherings/Retreats 13 Food and Supply List 16 Our Arrival 19 Vegetarian Dinners 23 My Favorite Tomato Sauce 24 Grandma Elizabeth’s Polenta 25 Lasagna from Enrico’s Family 26 Lasagna Layering 27 Matilija Manicotti 28 Pizza with Goat Cheese 29 Seasoned Rice 30 Blue Heron Beans 31 Adzuki Beans and Rice 32 Black Bean Enchiladas 33 Ojai Chili 34 Sauteed Vegetables with Rice 35 Special Vegetables with Almonds 36 Vincenzo’s Risotto 37 Carrots and Tofu 39 Lentils and Mint 40 Curried Lentils 41 California Split Pea Dahl 42 Pucci’s Potato and Egg Curry 43 Sunday Stuffed Potatoes 44 Spinach and Anaheim Chilies 46 Baked Eggplant 47 Saturday Market Quiche 48 Garden Vegetable Quiche 49 Fish and Chicken Dinners 51 Kobun’s Rice Balls 53 Miso Pine Salmon 54 Escolar 55 Millennium Paella 56 Chicken with Chard and Noodles 58 Francis’s Chicken and Curry 59 Westport Pineapple Chicken 60 Apple-Baked Chicken 61 November Stuffing 63 The Floods 65 Soups and Stews 69 —Vegetarian Simply Miso Soup 70 Rainy Day Tofu Soup 71 Blue Heron Ranch Potato Leek Soup 72 Cross-Country Lentil Soup 73 Garbanzo Soup with Tomato 74 Winter Minestrone 75 —Chicken and Fish Southwest Chicken Stew 76 San Francisco Chicken Stew 77 Blue Heron Chicken Stew 78 Rainy Day Chicken Noodle Soup 79 Ojai Bouillabaisse 81 —Chilled Summer Borsch 82 Avocado and Cucumber Soup 83 Marica’s Gazpacho 84 Poor Man’s Gazpacho 84 Yogurt Soup 86 Our Teepee 89 Salads and Dressings 93 Frankie ’s Salad Dressing 94 Blue Heron Salad Dressing 95 Baby Green Salad 96 Sackets Harbor Summer Salad 97 Santa Barbara Salad Variation 97 Cool Cucumber Salad 98 Potato and Bell Pepper Salad 99 Mixed Bean Salad 100 Rice Salad 101 My Roasted Red Bell Peppers 102 Goat Cheese Salad 103 Cloved Fruit Compote 104 Two Fruit Salads 105 Raita Salad 106 Fire 109 Breads and Muffins 113 Whole Wheat Bread 114 Rosemary Corn Bread 117 Garlic Bread 118 Tortillas from South America 119 Naan from India 119 Banana Bread 120 Weiner Sisters’ Popovers 122 Golden Scones 123 Marica’s Biscuits 124 Quick Ginger Molasses Muffins 125 Breakfast 127 Sunday Pancakes 128 Hearty Breakfast Crepes 129 Delectable French Toast 130 Birthday Waffles 131 Sesshin Oatmeal 132 Early Morning Rice Cream 133 Home-Baked Granola 134 Home Schooling 137 Puddings and Custards 141 Black Bear Apricot Pudding 142 Andrei’s Favorite Bread Pudding 144 Brown Rice Custard 145 Coconut Rice Pudding 146 Mexican Rice Pudding 146 Mocha Mousse 147 Zabaglione Cassis 148 Pies 151 Two Delicious Pie Crusts 152 Blue Heron Apple Pie 153 Blueberry Peach Pie 154 Persian Mulberry Peach Pie 155 Genevieve ’s Lemon Meringue Pie 157 Mitzi’s Chocolate Pecan Pie 158 Autumn Pumpkin Pie 159 Apple Crunch 160 Living Off the Grid 163 Cookies 167 Cardamom Cookies 168 Blue Heron Chocolate Chip Cookies 169 Genevieve ’s Butter Walnut Cookies 170 Cakes 173 Aunt Ev’s Cardamom Bundt Cake 174 Lemon Cranberry Bundt Cake 175 Chocolate Marble Bundt Cake 176 Chocolate Apple Sauce Cake 177 Birthday Coconut Cake 179 Persian Mulberry Cake with Goat Cheese 180 June Apricot Cake 181 Pear Upside-Down Cake 182 Meyer Lemon Half-Pound Cake 183 Carob Coconut Brownies 184 Tiramochamisu or Tiramintmisu Cake 185 Vincenzo and Kana’s Wedding Cake 186 Wedding Cake Filling and Icing 187 Our Zen Center 189 Sauces 193 Ginger Honey Sauce 194 Matilija Tamari Sauce 194 Ojai Lemon Sauce 195 Green Enchilada Sauce 196 Pesto Lemon Sauce 197 Mushroom Garlic Sauce 198 Marinated Ginger 199 Desert Hummus Sauce 200 Festive Cranberry Sauce 202 Frankie ’s Hot Fudge on Ice Cream 203 Drinks 205 Robin’s Chai 206 Teepee Hot Cider 207 4th of July Lemonade 208 Christine ’s Punch 209 Honey Almond Chai 210 In Remembrance of Andrei 213 Index 217