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Anytime Is Right For This Sandwich

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A winning combination of ingredients make up this incredibly simple sandwich.
A winning combination of ingredients make up this incredibly simple sandwich.

This inspired sandwich recipe may come from the cookbook, “Noon.”

But it’s so dead-simple and utterly delicious that you might just want to eat it morning, noon, and night.

“Ciabatta with Balsamic Blackberries, Coppa di Parma, and Mustard” is from that cookbook (Chronicle Books), of which I received a review copy.

It’s from the talented, James Beard Award-winning cookbook writer, Meike Peters, who lives in Berlin.

She has a natural knack for combining a few ingredients in novel ways to come up with dishes you can’t help but crave.

This book is all about relishing and re-imagining the noon-day meal. As Peters so rightly notes in her book, “Lunchtime can easily be as exciting as dinner; we just need to keep pour recipe choices realistic.”

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August Means Ricotta and Olive Oil Muffins with Figs

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Moist and fluffy from ricotta and olive oil, these incredible muffins get crowned with a honey-drizzled fig half.
Moist and fluffy from ricotta and olive oil, these incredible muffins get crowned with a honey-drizzled fig half.

If you’re blessed with your own backyard fig tree, you never have this problem.

But for those of us who are left with buying fresh figs at the market or through grocery delivery services these days, figs can be a bit confounding. You want them squishy-ripe so they’re at their sweetest — yet that’s also when they’re prone to go moldy in a flash. If you happen to find yourself with ones that are not soft at all, you wait with bated breath, checking them each day, in hopes that they will finally yield to the push of a fingertip.

But you realize soon enough that’s all in vain because figs actually don’t ripen much once they are picked. And if they are picked too early, forget about it.

However, less than ideal figs can be salvaged by baking or roasting them. Their natural sugars, no matter how modest, will exude and caramelize in the heat of an oven, rendering them enjoyable after all.

That’s what prompted me to bake a batch of “Ricotta and Olive Oil Muffins with Figs.”

This wonderful recipe more than rescued my less-than-perfect figs. It’s from the cookbook, “365: A Year of Everyday Cooking and Baking” (Prestel, 2019) by James Beard Award-winning Meike Peters, a food writer who splits her time between Berlin and Malta.

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Good To The Last Bite — Spiced Apple, Ham, and Raclette Sandwich

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My husband eagerly gave this thumbs up. You will, too.

My husband eagerly gave this thumbs up. You will, too.

 

My husband can be brutally honest.

Especially when it comes to food. Which can be a good thing if you want real criticism in order to judge something with complete honesty.

There have been times in which I’ve tried a new dish on him, only to have him swallow hard and say, “Where the heck did you dig up this recipe?”

But there are other times, where he’ll take a bite, and say, “Oh! You should make this more often.”

The latter was his response to “Spiced Apple, Ham, and Raclette Sandwich.”

This sammy, which he loved from the get-go, is from the new cookbook, “Eat In My Kitchen” (Prestel) by Meike Peters, a Berlin-based writer and photographer who created the blog, Eat In My Kitchen.

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The cookbook, of which I received a review copy, contains 100 recipes for seasonal food with a laid-back European attitude. In other words, it’s food that isn’t fussy. The lovely photos will make you want to cook and eat everything, too, from “Sauteed Endive with Balsamic Butter and Marjoram” to “Pumpkin Gnocchi with Roquefort Sauce” to “Riesling and Rhubarb Cake.”

Sandwiches are typically not hard to prepare. This one fits that simple mode, but delivers extra big on flavor.

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