Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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quick recipes

  • Delicata Squash and Mushroom Risotto with Parmesan and Saba

    Delicata Squash and Mushroom Risotto with Parmesan and Saba

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    There’s a certain type of cooking that I excel at and it’s called “I just got back from a trip and what do I have in my fridge?” cooking. Usually, when I get back from somewhere, I’m too fatootsed to go food shopping, so I either (a) give in and order take-out from Pine and…

  • One Hour Chicken Soup

    One Hour Chicken Soup

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    Imagine this. You get a terrible cold, you’re sick as a dog, your boyfriend gets you juice, soup (Pho from down the street), the works. Then you get better, fly to Florida for your parents’ 40th wedding anniversary, and while there, your boyfriend breaks the news: he has your cold. You’re not there to help,…

  • 60 Second Aioli

    60 Second Aioli

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    Infomercials rarely inspire awe, and yet I vividly remember watching a commercial for a handblender–this was back in the 90s, I think–that showed a glass jar filled with eggs and oil; then the hand blender plunged in, the host pressed a button, and magically it became mayonnaise. It was like watching a David Copperfield special…