Baumkuchen or Schichttorte

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I read a lot of my fellow food blogs.  I really don’t have any particular preference when it comes to putting them on my reader.  But I do tend to gravitate towards those food blogs that have beautiful photography and out of the box creativity when it comes to making recipes.

So, it’s no surprise that when I ran into Sandra Mangas web page – “La receta de la Felicidad” I was immediately in love with her photography and the creativity of her recipes blew me away.  She is fun, and wimsy and her recipes are delicious too.

Go visit her right now and see what I mean.

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GCC: Tomatoes Stuffed with Rice

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This was my second recipe from our Gutsy Cook line up this past week.

As the recipe in Saveur mentions, Italian has the stuff vegetables thing down pack.  Pretty much any antipasto table will have a vegetable that has been stuffed with meat, other veggies and in this case rice.

What appeal to me about this recipe is that fact that the most time consuming task here is prepping the tomatoes.  You have to trim them, and then scoop out the inner pulp without puncturing the walls.

This little prepping step may be a zilch for some cooks.  No biggie – cut top, scoop out pulp, and cut bottom.  Done.

For my perfect convulsive ODC twin this took a while, since I wanted them perfectly hollow out, and wanted them to stand up tall and pretty and the tops needed to be at the right angle and the bottoms…

Never mind. (I know, I got a problem – I’m trying to deal.  Lets move on.)

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