Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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Salads

  • Sensational Summer Salads

    Sensational Summer Salads

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    The farmer’s market can be an intimidating place, especially in summer when there’s just so much to choose from. Sometimes I get overwhelmed, buy a few peaches and tomatoes and leave quickly. Other times, I just buy everything in sight, a strategy that seems wasteful at first but which almost always pays off. When I…

  • Red and Gold Beet Salad with Mache & Goat Cheese

    Red and Gold Beet Salad with Mache & Goat Cheese

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    Here’s the thing about serving a beet salad as your first course at Thanksgiving: it’s nutritious enough (beets are healthy!) to justify all of the hedonism that’s to come AND you can serve it with good cheese which, when you think about it, rarely makes an appearance at Thanksgiving. Where else would you serve cheese?…

  • Let’s Talk About Lettuce

    Let’s Talk About Lettuce

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    I started cooking seven or eight years ago, maybe even a little further back, and it was around the time that people stopped buying whole heads of lettuce and started buying lettuce, pre-washed, in those little plastic tubs. The tubs, which are now omnipresent, have labels like “Spring Salad Mix” and “Herb Salad Mix” and…

  • Dorie Greenspan’s Mustard Bottle Vinaigrette

    Dorie Greenspan’s Mustard Bottle Vinaigrette

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    When food icons have food blogs, you need to read them. That’s certainly true of Dorie Greenspan’s blog. Her posts, like Dorie herself, are wise, witty and warm. And they’re full of good advice–like where to get pastries in Paris or how to whip up begger’s linguine–but the advice that’s stuck with the most was…

  • Greek Salad

    Greek Salad

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    It’s true that travel is an important component of any burgeoning chef’s education, but sometimes you go somewhere and the lessons don’t stick. For example, I spent ten days last summer in Spain–most of that time in Barcelona–and though we ate some truly extraordinary food, I can’t really say that it changed the way I…

  • Dinner at Whole Foods

    Dinner at Whole Foods

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    I met my grandparents for dinner last night at the Whole Foods in the Time Warner Center. My grandparents are here in the city for the next week, and choosing a place to eat can be a bit tricky. Once I took my grandmother to The City Bakery for lunch, and when she saw the…