Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • Scrambled Eggs with Lamb, Onions, and Feta

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    Scrambled Eggs with Lamb, Onions, and Feta

    Sorry for the slow posting this week, folks; we had to take a California Driver’s Test yesterday and, based on everything we’d heard, we had to really study for it (a very smart friend, who shall remain nameless, failed the first time he took it). As we went into the written exam, Craig said: “Whoever…

  • Lamb Burgers and Greek Salad

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    Lamb Burgers and Greek Salad

    My cooking life has been a weird one. Most people start out making things like burgers and mac and cheese; me, I started with braises and roasts and only now (almost ten years later) have I started getting comfortable making the stuff that most people make at the beginning of their cooking careers. Burgers are…

  • Mac and Cheese with Chorizo, Cotija and Aged English Cheddar

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    Mac and Cheese with Chorizo, Cotija and Aged English Cheddar

    Every time I make a mac and cheese I declare it the best I’ve ever made. There’s a reason for that. I grew up hating mac and cheese (also lasagna) because my dad hated cheese. So if a friend’s mom made it for dinner, I’d move it around on my plate and feign a sudden…

  • The Salty Turnip Omelette of Your Dreams

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    The Salty Turnip Omelette of Your Dreams

    It’s a new year, folks, and as the weekend approaches, it’s time to ask yourself some serious questions, specifically about how you start your day: are you tired of eating the same thing over and over again? Is it possible that your boredom reflects a boredom with your life itself? Is it time for a…

  • The Rest of the Best of 2013

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    The Rest of the Best of 2013

    Ok, I confess, I really enjoy writing these year-end posts. Yesterday, I continued the ritual of writing up all the books that I read in a given year; here are The Books That I Read in 2013. Now it’s time to dig into the rest of the best, posts that shined in specific ways (best…

  • Last Night’s Dinner: A Christmas Feast

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    Hey folks, I decided to continue with last week’s video series LAST NIGHT’S DINNER with a Christmas Dinner episode. Now you’ll get to see Steve’s famous prime rib come to life; plus Craig’s French 75 and a new riff on Brussels sprouts courtesy of our friend Dave. Hope you all had happy holidays… we’ll see…

  • The Top Ten Dishes That I Ate in 2013

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    The Top Ten Dishes That I Ate in 2013

    The dish that you see above (Tiger Prawn Salami from Movida in Sydney, Australia) is not one of the Top Ten Dishes That I Ate in 2013. I put it there, though, to illustrate how well I ate this year and how difficult it was to narrow everything down to the ten best dishes. My…

  • Let’s Brunch at Lafayette

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    Let’s Brunch at Lafayette

    My trip to New York started with a favorite brunch spot going down the tubes and ended with a brunch spot that I loved so much, I went twice. That spot is Lafayette and it’s located, as the name might suggest, on Lafayette Street just south of the Astor Place stop on the 6 train…

  • Dinner with Cara and Dara at La Vara

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    Dinner with Cara and Dara at La Vara

    One time in grad school for dramatic writing, a teacher tore into me and called the play I was working on “sophomoric” and “juvenile.” Classmates called me afterwards to console me, and though I’m pretty much over it, sometimes I look back at that moment and wonder if she was right. In all of my…

  • The Top 10 Dishes That I Cooked in 2013

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    The Top 10 Dishes That I Cooked in 2013

    My word, I cooked up a storm in 2013. Usually when I go through the process of choosing my best dishes of the year, the list pretty much writes itself. This year I struggled to put this in any kind of order; and when you see the dishes on my “Honorable Mentions” list you’re going…