editors' tips: cheesy feet
For my son Lex's first birthday, I wanted to prepare a festive snack that would be tasty for kids and adults. I ended up making these scrumptious cheese biscuits from a recipe in Nigella Lawson's cookbook, Feast: Food to Celebrate Life (which I happen to love, cover-to-cover). She calls it "Cheesy Feet" because she uses a foot-shaped cookie cutter. But, as she points out in the recipe, you can use any shape you want. I dredged up a star, a leaf and a circle, all of which worked beautifully. The best thing about the recipe is how simple and quick it is: You can pull it off with what you (likely) already have in 30 minutes flat. Even better? Everyone loved it. Here's the recipe, straight from Nigella:
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups cheddar cheese, grated; 1 1/2 tablespoons soft butter; 1/3 cup all-purpose flour; 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Put all of the ingredients into a food processor and blitz until the dough comes together...Form into a fat disc, wrap in plastic wrap and let it rest in the fridge for 15 minutes. Roll out the dough on a floury surface to roughly 1/8 inch in thickness, and cut out your feet with the cutters. You can keep re-rolling this dough and cutting out feet until it is all used up. Put them onto a lined baking sheet and cook in the oven for 10 minutes for the smaller feet, and 12 minutes for the bigger feet...The biscuits will continue to crisp up as they cool on a rack, so take them out when they're still a little soft in the middle.
(From Nigella Lawson's Feast: Food to Celebrate Life, copyright 2004 by Nigella Lawson. Used by permission of Hyperion.)
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