Writing about food since 2004.
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Recipes
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Devil’s Chicken Thighs with Braised Leeks and Dijon Mustard
Take a good long look at that picture. Study it, embrace it. What you are about to see, when you click ahead, are all the steps that went into making this dish–the crusty, golden exterior, the deep resonant sauce below: the braised leeks, the browned chicken, the herbed crumbs. This dish was an undertaking but…
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![Allow Me To Astound You With My Kitchen Prowess and the Recipe I Made from my New Favorite Cookbook: Devil’s Chicken Thighs with Braised Leeks and Dijon Mustard from “Sunday Suppers at Lucques” [Plus: Bread Pudding!]](https://amateurgourmet.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/133849822_e6567a489e-1.jpg)
Allow Me To Astound You With My Kitchen Prowess and the Recipe I Made from my New Favorite Cookbook: Devil’s Chicken Thighs with Braised Leeks and Dijon Mustard from “Sunday Suppers at Lucques” [Plus: Bread Pudding!]
Take a good long look at that picture. Study it, embrace it. What you are about to see, when you click ahead, are all the steps that went into making this dish–the crusty, golden exterior, the deep resonant sauce below: the braised leeks, the browned chicken, the herbed crumbs. This dish was an undertaking but…
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Presto, Pesto
When Liza Minnelli married David Gest-o She said, “Dear David, I get so depressed-o when I feel a hunger in my chest-o.” Dear David scratched his head. “Well I have pine nuts, walnuts, garlic too and a yarmulke cause I’m a Jew I’ll process them ’til they’re chopped through,” he answered her, in bed. “But…
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The Best Part of Waking Up Is Soft Scrambled Eggs and Homemade Biscuits with Apple Butter. (Folgers sucks.)
On Saturday morning I did a remarkable thing: I made a feast for breakfast. Well, not quite a feast. A mini-feast. A feast in the sense that it took more effort than, say, popping an Eggo waffle in the toaster or making the breakfast I usually eat: air. This was my breakfast plate after it…
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Balsamic Glazed Chicken With Grilled Radicchio & A Farm Wife’s Fresh Pear Tart
The title of this post is deceitful. Roasting a chicken is indeed a simple pleasure, but making a balsamic glazed chicken is slightly more complicated. Not much more complicated–it may still qualify as simple–but this simple guy had an issue. See the beautiful chicken with the crisped skin, browning in the oven? I wish I…
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Simple Pleasures for Simple People: Balsamic Glazed Chicken With Grilled Radicchio & A Farm Wife’s Fresh Pear Tart
The title of this post is deceitful. Roasting a chicken is indeed a simple pleasure, but making a balsamic glazed chicken is slightly more complicated. Not much more complicated–it may still qualify as simple–but this simple guy had an issue. See the beautiful chicken with the crisped skin, browning in the oven? I wish I…
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A Pasta Invention
Those keeping track of my career as a creator of recipes will remember my apple butter buttermilk ice cream which I created last week. This week I present a somewhat loopy, somewhat inspired pasta dish based on a dish Lauren had when we went to Craftbar. That dish was pecorino fondue with honey and hazelnuts.…
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A Post in Which Our Hero, Adam “Amateur Gourmet,” Makes Heidi “101 Cookbooks”‘s Apple Butter And Then, Somewhat Astonishingly, Creates His Own Ice Cream USING That Apple Butter. You will be astonished.
Lame “stay at home” Friday nights are some of my favorite Friday nights. A night out drinking and painting the town can’t compare to a night of watching Netflix movies by yourself and making caramel corn or chocolate chip cookies or, in the case of this post, apple butter. I have no shame in telling…
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![If I Had A Sunday Supper Club, It Might Look Like This [Featuring: Fried Zucchini, Kalamata Olive Dip and Fancy French Laundry Lasagna]](https://amateurgourmet.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/115097300_67c30c04eb-1.jpg)
If I Had A Sunday Supper Club, It Might Look Like This [Featuring: Fried Zucchini, Kalamata Olive Dip and Fancy French Laundry Lasagna]
Kiss kiss, darling, let me take your coat. It is dreadful outside, isn’t it? Did you have trouble finding the place? Did Carl give you trouble downstairs? Really, good help is so hard to find these days. Welcome to my black-and-white dream world, a world of drink and jazz and good old-fashioned New York glamour.…
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Sopranos Saucery: Rigatoni with Sausage & Tomato Sauce
I don’t work for HBO but I wish I did. They produce some of the best television out there–better, in fact, than most of the movies that get released these days. I think “The Sopranos” is the best show in the history of television, and I’ve been watching TV a long time. Not only is…
