Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts
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Cranberry Magic Bars
Let’s say it’s the day after Thanksgiving and you have a glut of cranberries. What’s a person to do? You could make cranberry muffins for breakfast, that’s an idea. You could make Melissa Clark’s sticky cranberry gingerbread and people would be tickled. Or you could make what I recently made from Genevieve Ko’s 2016 cookbook,…
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Talking Bagels, Tuna, and Food Person on “Book It”
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A few months ago, I had the chance to go into CUNY TV’s studios here in NY to have an in-depth conversation about Food Person on “Book It,” with host, Carol Anne Riddell. Boy, did she do her research: she knew all about my hot takes on tuna salad, my strong opinions about bagels, and…
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Chocolate Amaro Pecan Pie
It’s T-minus four days til T-day and most of you who are cooking have your menus worked out. But wait! I’ve got a recipe you need to add to the mix. It comes from Renato Poliafito’s fantastic Italian-American baking book, Dolci!, and it’s a pecan pie that took a trip to Italy and came back…
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Apollo Bagels
I often make doctor’s appointments with a mind towards lunch. For example, yesterday I went to get my cholesterol checked in Chelsea. When I picked the appointment I chose 10:45 not because I wanted to ride the F train with the commuter crowd, but because I knew that when I was done I could finally…
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Spiced-Quince Brown-Butter Cake
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Taylor Swift is in her tortured poet era, and I’m in my quince era. What can I say? I love how those rock hard, green softballs transform with a little time, a little sugar, and a little liquid into something so fragrant and colorful. Not to mention, when they’re cooked, they taste like honey and…
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What Soup Are You Cooking on Repeat?
Hey food blog friends, now that I’m up and blogging again I wanted to hear from you! What soup are you making the most these days? Here’s mine: I made it for lunch last week and I made it for lunch again yesterday and it’s so good. Step one: sauté an onion or two in…
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Extra-Crispy Hasselback Potatoes
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Thanksgiving potatoes tend to be creamy, buttery, gloppy, gooey, but are they ever crispy? Rarely, if ever, because who has the time to crisp up potatoes while also whisking gravy, heating dinner rolls, and basting a turkey? But what if I told you that you could have crispy potatoes and all you need is a…
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Baked Pasta with Kabocha Squash, Radicchio, Walnuts, and Taleggio
If my friends who are cooking Thanksgiving this year have one dilemma it’s the issue of beloved vegetarians. Do you relegate them to side dishes while everyone else eats turkey? Do you make the main event vegetarian so that everyone feels included? Is it even Thanksgiving if there isn’t a dead animal on the table?…
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Sukh
I’m a bit aggressive when it comes to picking a restaurant. After all, I’m not just eating for me, I’m eating for you: my adoring public! So on Friday night, when we met our friends Jeremy and Jason for dinner, I found myself in an extraordinary new role: passive restaurant goer. That’s right, Jason picked…
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Pumpkin Pie That’ll Actually Make You Love Pumpkin Pie
If there were a universal “meh” list, pumpkin pie would probably be at the very top. How many people are passionate about that odd combination of orange gunk, eggs, pumpkin pie spices (perhaps the most famous thing about it), in a pale, pallid crust? Not many! And yet, year after year, we make pumpkin pie…
