Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • Butterscotch Pecan Ice Cream

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    Butterscotch Pecan Ice Cream

    Good people, I have returned to the land of the living. As I stated in today’s newsletter (my first since August (subscribe here)), half of my cookbook was due this past Friday and I turned it in with a great sense of accomplishment and relief. Now I have some time to breath while my editor…

  • It Gets Better (Cooking for My Boyfriend & Our Families)

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    It Gets Better (Cooking for My Boyfriend & Our Families)

    When I told my friend Alex that I was cooking a dinner for my parents and Craig’s parents at the end of last week, Alex (who knew me in college) said to me: “Did you ever think, 10 years ago, that this would ever happen? That you’d cook a dinner one day for your parents…

  • Salsa Verde

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    Salsa Verde

    So the other day, when I was live-streaming my dinner preparations from my kitchen (making history! see here) I was surprised not only by how many people turned out (including impressive folks like Dan Saltzstein and Kelsey Nixon (who has her own show launching soon on Cooking Channel!)) but how useful it is to have…

  • Skyline Chili & Graeter’s Ice Cream

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    Skyline Chili & Graeter’s Ice Cream

    For as long as I’ve known my friend Lisa (and I’ve known her for over 10 years (see the Lisa A.G. archive)) she’s been singing the praises of her hometown, Cincinnati, Ohio. There were many times where she tried to convince me to visit her and her family there, and there were many excuses why…

  • Improvised Mac & Cheese

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    Improvised Mac & Cheese

    The Mac & Cheese you see above was created by yours truly without a recipe. I don’t know if you find that impressive, but I’m certainly impressed with myself. It all started when I made those roasted red peppers you saw in the previous post. The next night, I had those in the fridge and…

  • How To Roast Red Peppers

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    How To Roast Red Peppers

    As autumn conquers summer, and I stroll through the Union Square Farmer’s Market, I start to panic and worry about all the fruits and vegetables I didn’t buy during those precious few warm-weather months. Which explains why, during one Saturday saunter, I came home with four giant red peppers. I didn’t really have a red…

  • Melissa Clark’s Chocolate Chip Pecan Loaf Cake

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    Melissa Clark’s Chocolate Chip Pecan Loaf Cake

    [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

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    The Avocado Sandwich at Prune

    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)

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    Emily Wallendjack’s Pistachio Pudding (at Cookshop)

    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

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    Lunch at McDonald’s

    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…