Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

  • The 10 Best Dishes That I Ate in 2012

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    The 10 Best Dishes That I Ate in 2012

    I know you’re probably sick of these end-of-the-year listicles, but after a year that took me all over the country, I just had to do a list of the 10 best dishes that I ate this year. I ate so much good food, in fact, that 2012 may very well have been the best eating…

  • The 10 Best Things That I Cooked in 2012

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    The 10 Best Things That I Cooked in 2012

    You’ve gotta admit, I cooked some really good things this year. So many, in fact, that narrowing this list down to ten took some work. But I’m confident that these ten dishes are the dishes that dazzled the most, the ones that made me pat myself on the back most vigorously, praising my myself in…

  • What To Buy The Food Lover In Your Life

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    What To Buy The Food Lover In Your Life

    If you’re anything like me, you leave things until the last minute. And presumably many of you will be doing some last minute holiday shopping this weekend, scrambling through malls, climbing over parked cars, desperate to find gifts for the food lover in your life. Allow me to help! Here are 10 things that I…

  • Anything Goes Salad

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    Anything Goes Salad

    After my New York Public Library event with Deb Perelman (there were 230 people there!), I’m rethinking my whole blog. Somehow, through my aggressive questioning, I forced Deb to give up her blogging secrets. And the one that’s really staying with me the most is the fact that she cooks during the day to have…

  • The Meadow (Land of 1000 Salts)

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    The Meadow (Land of 1000 Salts)

    One of the most ridiculous things about my old West Village existence–living there, as I did, from 2009 through 2011–is that I never really noticed The Meadow. I think I thought it was a sandwich place. Or maybe a boutique shop for expensive olive oil. Had I known what lay in store behind its doors,…

  • Fear of Mayo

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    Fear of Mayo

    Jimmy Fallon likens it to pus. Last night at dinner, the idea of it made Craig’s cousin Katie scrunch up her face in disgust. And me? I used to have nightmares about this female camp counsellor with a hairy lip who ate an egg salad sandwich with dabs of mayo stuck all along the perimeter…

  • Rustic Vegetable Ragu

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    Rustic Vegetable Ragu

    Cooking without a recipe. How do you do it? You start with ingredients. My favorite way to do that is to open my refrigerator to see what’s there: on Friday night (when Craig was working late and his parents were flying in from Seattle) I saw carrots, I saw celery, I saw onions. I decided…

  • A Lebanese Sandwich at Porchetta and Pretzel Fries at Shopsin’s

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    A Lebanese Sandwich at Porchetta and Pretzel Fries at Shopsin’s

    I want to tell you about a sandwich. It’s a very special sandwich. You get it at a place famous for another special sandwich, but we’re not going to talk about that other special sandwich. We’re going to talk about the original sandwich I was trying to talk to you about earlier. Seriously, will you…

  • Nagging Latkes

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    Nagging Latkes

  • Mission Chinese Food and Pok Pok NY

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    Mission Chinese Food and Pok Pok NY

    Before I returned to New York this fall, I started a little folder in my browser called NYFood. I read my EaterNY, my Grub Street, and then bookmarked in my special folder any place I felt like I had to visit. Most prominent among my selections were Mission Chinese Food and Pok Pok NY. Both…