Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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  • Stone Fruit Party Pie

    Stone Fruit Party Pie

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    September is the perfect month to learn how to bake a pie. If you’ve never made one before, you’re still straddling two seasons: summer fruit tastes best in September and then, as the weather cools, you’ll transition into making apple pies, pumpkin pies, pecan pies, etc. So if your first few crusts are disasters, you’ll…

  • Crispy Pierogi with Pork and Dried Fruit

    Crispy Pierogi with Pork and Dried Fruit

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    The best pierogi I’ve ever eaten in my life — one that ruined all other pierogi for me — was at Michael Symon’s now-closed restaurant Lola in Cleveland, Ohio. I still remember what it looked like: a half moon of crispy dough stuffed with beef cheeks. It was maybe one of the most decadent things…

  • Stressbake a Banana Cake

    Stressbake a Banana Cake

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    You could bite your nails right now, you could doomscroll through social media, or you could do what I’ve been doing: stressbake. Stressbaking isn’t so much a strategy, as it is a state of mind. It’s where your body — your hands, your stomach, your taste buds — jump up into your brain and say:…

  • Nectarine Plum Pie with a Brown Sugar Crust

    Nectarine Plum Pie with a Brown Sugar Crust

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    So I’ve been organizing all of my old posts into categories. It’s a huge process — over 3,500 posts covering a 15 year span — but it’s also oddly satisfying; like cleaning up a hoarder house. My goal is for you to be able to click “cakes” and to see every cake recipe I’ve ever…