Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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2010

  • Melissa Clark’s Chocolate Chip Pecan Loaf Cake

    Melissa Clark’s Chocolate Chip Pecan Loaf Cake

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    [A note on the above photo: that was taken by my friend & neighbor Rob Meyer who came over for cake and let me tinker with his SLR because I’m thinking of getting one. Has the time come? What kind should I get?] The idea of a snack cake really appeals to me because, for…

  • The Avocado Sandwich at Prune

    The Avocado Sandwich at Prune

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    It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes you’re at a restaurant, waiting for your food, and you see a dish appear on the pass. You think to yourself: “Ooooh, that looks so good, maybe I should’ve ordered that?” You stare it for a few more beats and begin chastising yourself for ordering the thing you ordered…

  • Emily Wallendjack’s Pistachio Pudding (at Cookshop)

    Emily Wallendjack’s Pistachio Pudding (at Cookshop)

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    Meet my friend Cara (screen-left, pink top). On October 9th, she’s getting married. A few weeks ago, at her wedding shower, we were chatting and I was asking her about her wedding cake. “We’re not having a wedding cake,” she said. “I’d rather have a dessert I really like,” she explained. But when it came…

  • Lunch at McDonald’s

    Lunch at McDonald’s

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    Writing about McDonald’s is a dangerous thing for a food writer. There are two possible outcomes: you turn up your nose and write a snobby screed, offending those who eat there and like it. Or you write something in its defense, and you piss off 99% of the people who read food blogs, who love…

  • My Friends Do Talented Things

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    This post is to inform you that my friends do talented things. For example, my friend Travis Sentell (who once wrote this guest post) has a book out called “In The Shadow of Freedom.” You should read it. My friend Ricky Marson produced a CD for our friend Merideth Clark who writes and sings her…

  • Cooking For A Group, Part II

    Cooking For A Group, Part II

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    You may recall a post, back from September 15th, 2008 called “How To Cook For A Group.” In that post, I whined about how I wasn’t good at cooking for a group: “The truth is that to impress a large group of people, you’ve got to cook large. Some folks are better at cooking large…

  • Strange and Exotic Candies from Around The World

    Strange and Exotic Candies from Around The World

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    It all started with the heart-shaped glass bowl. My friend Lisa’s getting married at the end of the month and, earlier this year, when she registered at Crate and Barrel they gave her that heart-shaped glass bowl you see above. On my birthday, in February, she re-gifted it to me. “Adam, I want you to…

  • A Ratatouille Recipe

    A Ratatouille Recipe

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    It’s been more than a month since I made the ratatouille you see in the above photo. I made it for a dinner party where there was lamb (a leg of lamb, actually) and, as many will tell you, ratatouille goes well with lamb. When I wrote my last book, the final chapter “Feast” featured…

  • Hot Dog Bun French Toast

    Hot Dog Bun French Toast

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    On a drowsy Saturday morning, you stumble out of bed and look at what you have in the kitchen. You don’t have much. There are hot dog buns, there’s cream, there are eggs (hopefully untainted by salmonella) and slivered almonds. You scratch your chin, you lift your eyebrow, you hold your monocle closer to your…

  • Cheese of the Month Club

    Cheese of the Month Club

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    Craig, as you may recall, performed the wedding of our friends Mark & Diana; as a thank-you gift, they got him (& me!) the greatest gift he, a lifelong cheese lover, could possibly imagine: a membership to Murray’s Cheese Cheese-of-the-Month Club. Now, thanks to iPhone video technology, you can share the experience of opening up…