Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • Pork Belly and Smoked Sausage Cassoulet

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    Pork Belly and Smoked Sausage Cassoulet

    The last time (and only time) I’ve ever made cassoulet, it was a bit of a Noah’s Ark affair. There was duck, there was sausage, there was bacon. My cup, quite literally, was runneth over with meat and beans. Cassoulet is meant to be a hefty dish and, as a general rule, the bigger your…

  • Paris Highlights

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    Paris Highlights

    Travel is a funny thing. The more you build it up in your head, the less likely you are to do it. Which is why, a few months ago, when our friends Harry and Cris told us that they were going to France for Christmas and New Year’s (Cris is from Bordeaux), I spontaneously suggested…

  • My Ten Favorite Dishes That I Cooked in 2017

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    My Ten Favorite Dishes That I Cooked in 2017

    Was this the best cooking year of my life? (Oh no, there I go saying “best” again.) But, looking back on the past 365 days, I feel like I really came into my own this year in the kitchen. Gone are all the old insecurities that fueled this blog in the first place. Now, I…

  • My Favorite Restaurant Meals of 2017

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    My Favorite Restaurant Meals of 2017

    When you’ve been food blogging for long enough, your old posts can act as your own personal culinary archives. What was I eating in December of 2010? The answer is just a few clicks away. (Looks like it was spaghetti and gingerbread cake.) There’s a gap, now, in that data from July 2015 to September…

  • A Response From America’s Test Kitchen

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    A Response From America’s Test Kitchen

    After posting yesterday’s post about applesauce and “best recipes,” I woke up to an e-mail this morning from Tucker Shaw, who’s the new editor-in-chief of Cook’s Country at America’s Test Kitchen. Tucker’s actually been a long-time supporter of my blog (a blurb of his is featured on my first book) and I had no idea…

  • There Is No Such Thing As The Best Recipe

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    There Is No Such Thing As The Best Recipe

    OK, I’m going to tell you a secret, and maybe it’s an obvious secret, one that you already know (especially since it’s the title of this post), but I also think it’s a secret most people don’t want to acknowledge: there is no such thing as the best recipe. Now I say this as someone…

  • Cyber Monday at Trois Mec

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    Cyber Monday at Trois Mec

    I had a very good Cyber Monday, if I do say so myself. My KitchenAid mixer has been in decline every since that time, years ago, that I was using it to knead bread dough and heard a giant BOOM in the kitchen, only to discover it had toppled on to the floor, cracking a…

  • Whole Date Oatmeal

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    Whole Date Oatmeal

    I’ve been making the same oatmeal almost every day for the past few weeks and the time has come for me to share it with you. There’s a good thing and a bad thing about this oatmeal recipe. The good thing is that it only has three ingredients, unless you also add butter (as the…

  • My Favorite Restaurant in L.A. Right Now Is Botanica

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    My Favorite Restaurant in L.A. Right Now Is Botanica

    There’s this notion that there’s an objective answer to the question, “Where’s the best place to eat in (insert city name) right now?” Let me be the first to say that I don’t think it’s possible to be objective about such a thing. In fact, I’m planning a trip to Paris right now and listening…

  • The Tomato Test

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    The Tomato Test

    Why is it that there are things in this life that we KNOW are good for us and yet we don’t do them? Even if they’re easy? Even if the minimal amount of work that they require will yield enormous results, ones that’ll absolutely transform our day-to-day experiences for the better? In case you couldn’t…