Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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  • Lunch at La Super-Rica in Santa Barbara

    Lunch at La Super-Rica in Santa Barbara

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    We spent last week with some friends (our quarantine pod) in Santa Barbara to ride out the election. And what a week it was! We thought we might be celebrating on Tuesday night as the results rolled in, but, as we all know, Tuesday’s uncertainty led to Wednesday’s uncertainty as the votes were slowly and…

  • Jasper White’s Corn Chowder

    Jasper White’s Corn Chowder

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    Recipes, sometimes, are like dreams. You experience them but then, quite often, you forget that you’ve experienced them. And then you’re standing somewhere, and the memory floods back to you: “I was being chased by a gorilla through Filene’s Basement!” Or, in this case, “I once made a corn chowder so good that I wrote…

  • Rib-Eye Steak with Sauce Béarnaise

    Rib-Eye Steak with Sauce Béarnaise

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    A few months ago, when I first conceived of Sauce Week, I set out to make a dinner for myself that promised to be so outrageously decadent, I’d have to close my blinds before eating the first forkful. The premise was pretty basic–steak and potatoes–with one key difference. I was going to drench the whole…

  • Crème Caramel

    Crème Caramel

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    Ok, enough with this healthy stuff. Bring on dessert. Very well! For a long time I’ve been curious about Crème Caramel but too wimpy to make it. It starts by making caramel, something I’ve done many times, but then you pour the caramel into ramekins, make a custard with eggs and milk and vanilla bean,…

  • Weekend Brunch: Poached Eggs on Roasted Potatoes with Hollandaise Sauce

    Weekend Brunch: Poached Eggs on Roasted Potatoes with Hollandaise Sauce

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    Last weekend, I decided to make a very ambitious breakfast of poached eggs on roasted potatoes with Hollandaise sauce. It took a whole carton of eggs (three for the Hollandaise, four for poaching and the rest for throwing away after the yolks bled into the whites) but the resulting dish, as you can see, was…

  • Julie & Julia

    Julie & Julia

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    “Julie & Julia” is a movie about connections. There are the connections between Julia Child and her husband Paul, her collaborator Simone Beck, her sister Dorothy, and her pen pal Avis; the connections between Julie Powell and her husband Eric, her best friend Sarah, and the one that forms between her and her ever-growing audience.…