Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts
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anchovies
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Spicy Cauliflower Pasta
Whenever I’m asked “what’s your favorite cookbook?” my instant response is always The Zuni Café Cookbook by Judy Rodgers. What’s funny about that is that as much as I adore this book — it’s a constant presence on my most prominent cookbook shelf — I rarely, if ever, cook from it.
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Lentils with Pancetta, Anchovies, Sun-Dried Tomatoes, and Kale
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When I wrote my cookbook Secrets of the Best Chefs over a decade ago, I stood in the kitchen of Beast, Chef Naomi Pomeroy’s then-flagship restaurant in Portland, trying to keep up as she made a giant batch of lentils. Every time I looked away, it seemed like she was adding a new ingredient: was…
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Cavatappi with Anchovies, Garlic, and Red Peppers
Following a recipe can sometimes feel like you’re on a mad voyage with a crazed captain determined to set your kitchen ablaze in a quest to capture that ephemeral, culinary white whale. “Are you out of your mind?” I wanted to yell at Melissa Clark, whose Pasta with Caramelized Peppers and Anchovies inspired this particular…
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Rice Gone Wild, Salmon Adventures & The Night I Served A Pork Chop To A Vegetarian
Necessity is the mother of invention (its Baby Mama, if you will) and so it was that a few weeks ago I had carrots, onions, celery, and some Arborio rice on hand and because I didn’t feel like food shopping that evening, I set out to make a risotto with just water. I’ve told you…
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A Really Good Radicchio Salad
Look, let’s be honest, I make a really good radicchio salad. That may not mean much to most people because radicchio isn’t one of those vegetables that gets anyone excited. It’s bitter. It’s red. It’s red and bitter. What’s the big deal? Well: I like to serve it before a big, heavy dinner to wake…
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Bagna Cauda (The Butter Garlic Anchovy Sauce of Your Dreams)
When a significant other goes out of town, most people use that opportunity to watch bad movies, to pig out on ice cream, and to spread out gratuitously in bed while sleeping. Me? I make risky foods. No, I don’t mean risky in a danger sense–I’m not eating supermarket ground beef tartar–I mean in a…
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Egg Salad with Sun-Dried Tomatoes & Anchovies
Cooking, sometimes, is like a game. The game changes from dish to dish, but often, for me, the game is: How Can I Make This Better Without Leaving My Apartment? This is a fun game to play, especially when you’re making something as pedestrian as an egg salad sandwich. You boil the eggs, you peel…
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Weary Traveler’s Spaghetti
Last night, before I fell asleep, I tried to remember all the phases of my 21 hours of travel from the previous day. I took a bus from the Bellingham airport to the Seattle airport where I rode a mini-train to my gate, waited three hours (during which I bought a Snickers bar which I…
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Heaven & Hell Cauliflower Pasta
White food is supposedly unappetizing. Tom Colicchio, on “Top Chef,” will mark down a plate of food if everything on it is white or beige. I see his point: there’s something almost clinical about a plate of white food. That’s why parsley’s such a useful ingredient to have around; it’s an easy color-solution, the flecks…
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