Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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Melissa Clark

  • Melissa Clark’s Chocolate Chip Pecan Loaf Cake

    Melissa Clark’s Chocolate Chip Pecan Loaf Cake

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    [A note on the above photo: that was taken by my friend & neighbor Rob Meyer who came over for cake and let me tinker with his SLR because I’m thinking of getting one. Has the time come? What kind should I get?] The idea of a snack cake really appeals to me because, for…

  • St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake

    St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake

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    Sometimes a recipe is so intriguing, so mysteriously alluring, so strange that there’s nothing you can do but make it to see what it tastes like. That’s precisely what happened when I saw this St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake on what’s becoming my #1 favorite internet recipe resource, Smitten Kitchen. I’m friends with Deb–we ate…

  • How To Make Your Own Matzoh

    How To Make Your Own Matzoh

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    Moses had the burning bush which talked to him and told him to free the Jews from slavery and to lead them out of Egypt; I had a burning piece of matzoh. My burning piece of matzoh didn’t talk to me or tell me to do anything, but it did fill my apartment with so…

  • Roasted Shrimp & Broccoli

    Roasted Shrimp & Broccoli

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    Remember that broccoli post I posted a few months ago? The Best Broccoli of Your Life? It kind of took the world–or, rather, the web–by storm. To prove it, do a Google search for “best broccoli recipe” and marvel at the #1 result. If Google says it’s the best broccoli recipe, then it has to…