She would make it for dinners when guests were expected, placing a platter of filled pockets on the table along with slices of thin, cheese-filled khachapuri pie, sweet peppers stuffed with rice and ground beef and herbs, simple salads of cucumbers and tomatoes so red and ripe they made my tastebuds stand on end, and plastic jugs of homemade wine.
Click on "savory," and you have two choices, canapes or an assortment of pastry hors d'oeuvres, right, including onion tartlets, rich quichelets, pencil-thin cheese straws and two kinds of bite-size sausage rolls, for $25.
Fergus Henderson is chef founder of St. John, London EC1; stjohngroup.uk.com Makes 1 large sandwich mushrooms 100g, small olive oil 2 tbsp sourdough bread 2 thin slices cheese 4 tbsp grated Slice the mushrooms thinly, almost like paper.
A basket of assorted rolls, slices of sturdy bread and thin, crisp cheese triangles arrives with a ramekin of butter, a carafe of ice water and a plate of peppery olives.
Better by far is the huge plate of four luscious cheeses ($7) that will feed four (though it should come with crackers or bread); the warm, delicious mango cobbler with raspberries, strawberries and vanilla ice cream; and the tiny, thin citrus cheese cake ($5) with its concentrated flavor.
There are just a couple of fine points here: Don't drain the pasta too thoroughly; the water that clings to it and the leaves of the spinach is needed to thin the cheese and butter and create a real sauce.
There's "I know you cooked this beautiful 3 course meal for our family but I only eat thin crust cheese pizza at room temperature".
Chicago, Illinois: While the Windy City may be the home of deep dish-style pies, thin crust cheese and margarita pizzas were the MVPs this year, accounting for nearly 25% of all orders.
A slice of Domino's thin-crust cheese pizza, listed at 180 calories, actually contained only 141.
