Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • The Case of the Cat and the Water Glass

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    The Case of the Cat and the Water Glass

    In the middle of the night, a few weeks ago, I heard a noise that sounded like the sound you make when you’re licking your chops after eating a big piece of cake. Only the chop-licking wasn’t chop-licking, it was water-lapping and it was happening on my nightstand at 3:30 in the morning. Lolita, everyone’s…

  • Sneak Peek: Our New Kitchen

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    Sneak Peek: Our New Kitchen

    Hey, check out the kitchen above…I hope you like it because that’s our new kitchen! After a frantic search that lasted three weeks (ugh) my friend Nick e-mailed me a link to an apartment in Atwater Village on Wednesday morning. The funny thing about that is each morning I would wake up and the first…

  • Reader Mail: How To Entertain?

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    Reader Mail: How To Entertain?

    Here’s a question from a reader that I thought might be best answered on the blog. (Note: I edited the letter for brevity’s sake.) Dear Adam, I’ve been reading your blog now for six or seven years, though I’ve never commented. I really enjoy your humor and down to earth advice about cooking. I started…

  • No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

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    No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

    This is a week of recipes where the finished dish doesn’t look good, but tastes really good, so I lead with a picture of something else. Yesterday it was Kachin Chicken Curry with a picture of a mortar and pestle, today it’s No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies from Baked Explorations with an image of peanut…

  • Kachin Chicken Curry

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    Kachin Chicken Curry

    Confession: if I lead a post with an image that isn’t the finished dish, that’s because the finished dish isn’t very pretty. Which doesn’t mean it isn’t very good. In this case, the dish comes from a book that’s been sitting on my shelf for a long time, a book that my publisher published around…

  • Rocio’s Mole de Los Dioses

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    Rocio’s Mole de Los Dioses

    Sometimes you have to tap into your inner Mary Poppins and remind your inner George Banks that flying a kite is a perfectly respectable way to spend an hour or two, even on a busy day. So in the middle of my mad apartment hunting, I gave myself a break by driving up on the…

  • Foolproof Apple Pie

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    Foolproof Apple Pie

    I’m a pie fool which isn’t the same thing as being a fool for pie. Julie Klausner recently pointed out in her podcast that Jews are cake people, Christians are pie people. From my own life experience, I find that to be true: my Jewish parents and grandparents, when at a social gathering, would put…

  • Cinnamon Toast French Toast

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    Cinnamon Toast French Toast

    I’d like to propose a toast to toast. It can do so many miraculous things: drizzled with olive oil and topped with tomatoes, it becomes bruschetta; brushed with butter and topped with eggs, it’s an open-faced breakfast sandwich. And then there’s the matter of French toast; where you dunk the bread in custard, fry it…

  • The Porch Swing

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    The Porch Swing

    Looking for a refreshing summer drink? Try this one on for size. On Sunday night, we went over to our friends Mark and Diana’s and they served up a delightful twist on the Pimm’s Cup, a cocktail called The Porch Swing which they learned from Blue Smoke in New York (the restaurant that also catered…

  • My Ultimate Comfort Food: Fusilli with Bacon Tomato Sauce

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    My Ultimate Comfort Food: Fusilli with Bacon Tomato Sauce

    Growing up, when mom and dad would get dressed up on a Friday night, they’d leave us behind with a babysitter, a box of fusilli and a jar of Prego. I couldn’t have been happier because, as most of you know by now, pasta is my favorite food (next to dessert). Chicken or the egg-wise,…