Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

Category

stew

  • Too Good to Be Vegan: Squash, Chard, Chickpea, and Saffron Stew

    Too Good to Be Vegan: Squash, Chard, Chickpea, and Saffron Stew

    ,

    |

    Vegan cooking can be thankless. Just by labeling something “vegan,” you’re instantly aware of all of the things you’re not including: chicken stock, sausage, Parmesan cheese. But sometimes you encounter a recipe that’s so good, you don’t even realize that it’s vegan until after you’ve made it. That’s how it was with this easy vegan…

  • A Menu for December (Parsnip Soup, Beef and Mushroom Stew, Ginger Cake)

    A Menu for December (Parsnip Soup, Beef and Mushroom Stew, Ginger Cake)

    |

    We got a tree, a Christmas tree, and it’s my first one–Rabbi Schlomo, plug your ears–and it’s making our apartment seem so festive. Somehow I thought getting a tree would be a big ordeal: with the lights and the stand and the balls and the baubles. But, actually, it was a totally easy process. On…

  • Dijon and Cognac Beef Stew

    Dijon and Cognac Beef Stew

    ,

    |

    Cooking out of season is a little more acceptable on the west coast, where seasons are peripheral. Yes, it got a little chilly out here in L.A. in January and February; I was wearing long sleeves in March, but life didn’t change the way life changes so dramatically when it gets cold back east. So…