Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • Stand Makes Me Stand In The Place Where I Am

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    Stand Makes Me Stand In The Place Where I Am

    Have you ever had a truly forgettable meal? A meal that makes you scratch your head when someone asks, “Have you eaten at X?” Well that’s how I feel about the meal I had a few weeks ago at Stand, the new burger place on… on… see, I’ve totally forgotten where it is. I think…

  • Don’t Be A Creep, Make A Crêpe

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    Don’t Be A Creep, Make A Crêpe

    Two very strange things happened the night before I left for San Francisco: (1) I decided to make crepes; and (2) After making crepes–with lemon juice and sugar (a standard treatment, as far as I could discern)–I sat down with Craig, who was watching “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” and, I kid you…

  • To Russia, For Food (…and Dancing!)

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    To Russia, For Food (…and Dancing!)

    I went to the best 30th birthday party ever imagined last week. When Craig’s friend Sasie (whose birthday it was) sent out the evite, we were wary. Here was the plan: we would all meet at Washington Square Park and there would be a bus, the bus would take us to Brighton Beach where we…

  • Funny Cakes

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    Funny Cakes

    Sometimes people send me funny things. Like Craig’s sister, Kristen. She sent me a picture of this cake she and her friends made for Easter featuring Jesus.Kristen writes: “Here is Jesus standing next to his tomb. It looks like one of his arms is buried in the rock, but it’s not…he only has one arm!…

  • What To Eat in San Francisco (A Wrap-Up)

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    What To Eat in San Francisco (A Wrap-Up)

    Here’s a review of my favorite bites from my trip to San Francisco. Thanks Bay Area Bloggers for making me feel so welcome: after I join a gym and burn off the 40 million calories I ingested this trip, I’ll book another flight and do it all again. And now, my favorite San Francisco bites!…

  • Manresa

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    Manresa

    To quote Vanessa Williams, I “saved the best for last.” For the last meal of my trip, I packed my suitcase–left thank you notes for my hosts, Tohva and Raife–and drove one and a half hours to Los Gatos, where I met Pim for dinner at her boyfriend’s highly renowned restaurant, Manresa. I got a…

  • Burma Superstar

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    Burma Superstar

    Brett had Bay Area bloggers buzzing. “Where is he taking you?” they asked when I told them about our e-mail exchange. The exchange went like this: Me: I want to meet you! Brett: Great! Let’s meet for lunch Thursday. Me: Ok. But there’s a problem. Brett: What? Me: I’m going to MANRESA that night and…

  • César & JoJo

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    César & JoJo

    Oakland is home to Derrick Schneider of Obsession With Food, his wife Melissa, and their friend Julie. I crossed the bridge to join them for dinner at César, a restaurant with two locations: one there in Oakland, the other in Berkeley right next door to Chez Panisse. As far as I remember, César the man…

  • Pizza Delfina

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    Pizza Delfina

    My reasons for going to San Francisco were manifold: to see the Golden Gate bridge, to eat lots of food, and–very high on the list–to meet one of my all-time favorite food bloggers, Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks. Heidi’s star is on the rise these days: with the release of her GORGEOUS new cookbook, Super…

  • Runaway Caramel Chocolate Shortbread

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    Runaway Caramel Chocolate Shortbread

    As mentioned in my Ferry Building post, the good people of La Cocina provided me with a package of Clare Squares (chocolate/caramel shortbread) to take back to New York. Strangely enough, though, as I packed up to leave Raife and Tohva’s apartment I found a note stuck to my computer:Suspiciously, there were crumbs and an…