Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts
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Not Your Mama’s Meatballs
I wanted something simple. Specifically, I wanted spaghetti and meatballs. I’d never made spaghetti and meatballs before and last night was going to be the night. But then I opened Lydia Bastianich’s book, “Lydia’s Family Table,” and after looking up meatballs in the index I found her recipe for “Long-Cooked Sugo and Meatballs.” Lydia explains,…
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Win Back Your Loved Ones This Weekend With Chicken Breasts Braised With Hard Cider & Parsnips
You are about to read a record-setting post. This is the shortest amount of time that’s ever passed between a meal consumed and a post written. I just made this for dinner: And everyone loved it so much they said, “You HAVE to post this on your website.” It’s from Molly Stevens’ new book, “All…
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The Salad In Winter
After reading Regina Schrambling’s L.A. Times piece on winter salads last week, I was inspired to make this fennel, green apple and watercress salad from A Voce. There are many wonderful things about this salad, most of all the lemon zest: it makes it so zingy and bright you’ll forget it’s winter (as if the…
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Pot Party
This is the last party in our tour of five parties and you may think that after visiting so many parties, we want to kick back and do illegal drugs–but that’s not what this party’s about! This party is about a different type of pot: pot d’creme. Over the past two weeks I’ve made two…
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Fall Out Of Fall With A Matzah Ball
Every year, around this time, it happens. The weather turns cold and I get a cold. And when I get a cold I make chicken soup. But this year, instead of the usual egg noodles I add from the bag, I decided to make my first matzah balls using the recipe from Joan Nathan’s “Jewish…
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The Call of the Cauliflower
My grandmother used to boil vegetables. I’d ride my bike to her house on East Lexington Ave. in Oceanside, NY and I’d walk in and smell boiled cabbage and carrots and cauliflower (the “C” vegetables) which she’d then top with Mrs. Dash. I thought it was wonderful—it’s one of the few taste memories I have…
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Make Bread
Last week the NYT published a piece on how to make supremely excellent bread at home with minimal work and maximum reward. Luisa of Wednesday Chef attempted it and her results look marvelous. But the other day I wanted home-made bread and I wanted it then and there. The NYT technique requires 12 hours of…
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Choose Your Own APPLE Adventure
(1) You go to the farmer’s market and bring back a bag of apples. If you want to eat these apples out of the bag go to (2). If you decide to make an apple pie go to (3). (2) Oh no! You’re choking! No one’s there. You’re dead. (3) You grab your Martha Stewart…
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70 Steps To Foie Gras Torchon
1. Receive a free lobe of foie gras from Mirepoix USA. 2. Post about it on your website. 3. Consider your options. (Option 1: Go as Foie Gras Head to that Halloween party; Option 2: Sear it and serve it; Option 3: Make a torchon from The French Laundry Cookbook.) 4. Decide on Option Two.…
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The Best Cookies Of Your Life
Diana and I are in love. No, not with each other, but with these chocolate chip cookies, our first apartment baking project that won raves from everyone who tried them. “These are seriously the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever made,” said Diana. “These cookies are so good,” said Craig. “Meow,” said Lolita. Of course,…
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