Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • Zite with Onions, Sausage & Fennel

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    Zite with Onions, Sausage & Fennel

    It’s a big heaping mess, but boy is it good. The recipe comes from “The Silver Spoon Cookbook,” a birthday gift from Matthew my show’s director and a book that’s called Italy’s version of “The Joy of Cooking.” This specific recipe comes from the special back section where Italian chefs offer up their own favorite…

  • The Night I Let Friends Cook For Me

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    The Night I Let Friends Cook For Me

    Psychologically speaking, I’m a Jewish mother. I smother those I love with attention, worry, enthusiasm, judgment and, most of all, food. The food bit is a relatively recent development–I wasn’t smothering my high school friends with food–but now that I do cook and cook quite regularly, I have an almost compulsive need to feed others.…

  • Cassoulet in 10 Easy Steps

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    Cassoulet in 10 Easy Steps

    When Anthony Bourdain cooks with Michael Ruhlman on the Cleveland episode of “No Reservations,” he layers meat and beans together in a giant drum, tops the whole thing off with breadcrumbs and produces a dish most of us aren’t used to seeing on Food TV (and I say that as someone who now works for…

  • Homemade Pizza with Caramelized Onions, Rosemary & Gorgonzola

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    Homemade Pizza with Caramelized Onions, Rosemary & Gorgonzola

    Sometimes the name of a dish sounds so intimidating your immediate reaction is: “Pish posh! I can’t make that! And why did I just say pish posh?” Such might be the case with the pizza you see above. You hear “pizza” and that doesn’t sound so difficult, but you add “caramelized onions, rosemary and gorgonzola”…

  • The FN Dish Goes to Miami (The South Beach Wine & Food Festival)

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    The FN Dish Goes to Miami (The South Beach Wine & Food Festival)

    At the end of the weekend and our trip to The South Beach Wine & Food Festival, my director, Matthew Horovitz, turned to me and said, “You’ve met everyone now. There’s no one left to meet!” Watch the following video–the 2nd official episode of “The FN Dish”–and tell me if you disagree. If that video…

  • Merkato 55

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    Merkato 55

    At a party recently, I was chatting with Amanda from Eater about how disconnected I feel from the world of New York dining; how I rarely know what’s new, what’s not, what’s worth eating at and what’s worth avoiding. How does the Eater gang stay so informed? And how do the throngs of savvy New…

  • A New Camera!

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    A New Camera!

    Well what was I supposed to do? I was cameraless and therefore limbless in the world of blogging; what’s a food blogger without a camera? What’s an opera singer without a lung? I did what I had to do: I cashed in on a birthday gift from my parents (thanks mom and dad!) and headed…

  • Lost Camera

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    Missing: my big black Canon S70 with pictures from my birthday dinner at Hearth (a surprise from Craig), pictures of chicken knees at Yakitori Totto where I went with Diana, and the dessert she and I had at P*ng where the bartender practically hissed at us for not ordering drinks. Likely camera location: outside Food…

  • The Big Reveal: Introducing The FN Dish

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    The Big Reveal: Introducing The FN Dish

    Today’s my birthday–I’m 29 today–and though I’m usually a birthday junkie, exhausting friends and relatives with desperate cries for attention, presents, phone calls, etc–my focus is not on my own birth today. Instead, it’s focused on the birth of something that’s been gestating for the past three months; a project so big, so exciting, it’s…

  • Valentine’s Day Dinner at Insieme

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    Valentine’s Day Dinner at Insieme

    Fancy dinners are funny things: you think you have to plan for them, make reservations, get dressed up, when in fact the idea of a “fancy dinner” is just a construct; the truth is, a talented chef with a nice restaurant wants nothing more than for you to pop in at the spur of the…