Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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  • Fancy Weeknight Chicken and Cauliflower

    Fancy Weeknight Chicken and Cauliflower

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    Yesterday I went food shopping with my friend Diana. We went to Lassen’s and the produce looked fine, not great, so I grabbed two cauliflowers (cauliflower?) even though it’s the height of summer and I should be buying corn and tomatoes. Then we went across the street to the butcher (McCall’s) and despite the vast…

  • Quick-Brined Pork Chops with Pan-Fried Cauliflower

    Quick-Brined Pork Chops with Pan-Fried Cauliflower

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    For the past few months, I’ve been buying kosher chicken breasts from Trader Joe’s not because I prefer kosher chicken breasts but because Trader Joe’s is underneath my gym and it’s way easier to grab chicken there than to make an extra stop on my way home. The problem with this is that kosher chicken…

  • How To Host An Indoor Clambake

    How To Host An Indoor Clambake

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    My usual dinner party process goes like this: a day or two before a dinner party, I grab a handful of cookbooks off my towering cookbook shelf and casually thumb through them. The goal is not to frantically search for the perfect recipe, it’s to let the perfect recipe come to me. Usually that happens…

  • Bouillabaisse! A French Seafood Odyssey At Home

    Bouillabaisse! A French Seafood Odyssey At Home

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    Certain recipes are so complicated, so expensive, and so high-stakes that they become, for adventurous home cooks, the equivalent of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro or sailing a boat around the world. Bouillabaisse is that sort of recipe. Originating from Marseille (in France), bouillabaisse–at least, the authentic kind–asks you to make your own fish stock (with fish…