Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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summertime

  • Summertime Pasta with Squash and Corn

    Summertime Pasta with Squash and Corn

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    Looks can be deceiving. For example, the picture you see above probably looks pretty good, but not the kind of thing you’re going to e-mail to all of your friends with the subject “!!!!” and the message, “OH MY GOD WE HAVE TO MAKE THIS.” That’s a shame because, the thing is, if you could…

  • Clams with White Wine, Sweet Corn, and Basil

    Clams with White Wine, Sweet Corn, and Basil

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    If you were to do a graph–and I’m not a graph person, so you’d have to help me out here–measuring the effort you put into a dinner vs. the pleasure you get from eating it, chances are there’d be a real corollary between the work put it in and the pleasure received (see, for example,…

  • The Porch Swing

    The Porch Swing

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    Looking for a refreshing summer drink? Try this one on for size. On Sunday night, we went over to our friends Mark and Diana’s and they served up a delightful twist on the Pimm’s Cup, a cocktail called The Porch Swing which they learned from Blue Smoke in New York (the restaurant that also catered…