Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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  • Gina DePalma’s Obsessive Ricotta Cheesecake

    Gina DePalma’s Obsessive Ricotta Cheesecake

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    Can you channel a spirit with a recipe? That’s how it feels every time I open Gina DePalma’s Dolce Italiano, the authoritative Italian dessert cookbook that my friend Gina wrote before she died of ovarian cancer in 2016. For a dinner party this weekend, I made her Obsessive Ricotta Cheesecake. It’s funny because I convinced…

  • Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake

    Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake

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    Now let’s get to the serious business at hand: Thanksgiving dessert. Oh, I know what you’re going to tell me, that this is a pie holiday and that offering up a cake at Thanksgiving is like offering up a latke at Christmas. Well you’re speaking to a latke person at Christmas, so of course I’m…

  • Gina DePalma’s Creamy, Dreamy Ricotta Cheesecake

    Gina DePalma’s Creamy, Dreamy Ricotta Cheesecake

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    For years, I’ve wanted to make a ricotta cheesecake. One time, long ago, I did it in a coffee mug–I was going through a weird phase of my life, then–but that was it. I never actually made a real ricotta cheesecake. Then, this weekend, I was supposed to bring a dessert to a dinner party.…

  • Double-The-Cream-Cheese Cheesecake

    Double-The-Cream-Cheese Cheesecake

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    A few weeks ago, I posted this picture of a cheesecake that I ate at Craig’s aunt and uncle’s for Easter brunch and several readers wrote me and asked for the recipe. I wrote Craig’s aunt Liz who put me in touch with Andrea, who made the cake. The secret? “This recipe has twice as…