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Check out my Fancy Food Show favorites from GMA
Hope you tuned in to Good Morning America and saw my selection of new products from the Summer Fancy Food Show. If you would like to learn more about my favorites, go to GMA for the scoop.
Potatoes: How do you choose the right potatoes for a recipe?
This week I got an e-mail from Dawn asking how to choose the best potato variety for a recipe. Because I have often gotten this question, I included a special note on potato varieties in my first two books. For many recipes, the kind of potato you use makes a…
The Ultimate Spinach Salad
I just love salad. When I’m in the city, I eat salad every day for lunch. When I’m on the road for business, I often order salad from room service for dinner. Of course, I understand that not everyone shares this leafy passion (take my husband, please), so when I…
Blueberries: Blueberry Muffin Tips
A viewer recently e-mailed me to say that when she added fresh blueberries to her favorite muffin batter the finished muffins had an unappetizing greenish haze around the blueberries. She wondered what caused it and if there is a way to prevent that from happening. When you bake with fresh…
Turkey Burgers with Tomato Corn Salsa
Hamburgers are so central to American culture that messing with them can seem almost sacrilegious. And it’s kind of perilous to boot. Replace the beef with low-fat turkey, as in this recipe, and you risk creating a drier, less flavorful burger, a burger unworthy of the name. Here I’ve countered…
Seared Hanger Steak with Mustard Basil Butter
Known as onglet in French, hanger steak is sometimes called butcher’s tenderloin in English because there is only one of these delicious cuts per animal and butchers tend to hog it for themselves. In other words, it is not something that is regularly stocked in the supermarket meat case, so…
Serrano Ham and Manchego Cheese Roulade
An egg roulade is sort of like an enormous spongy omelet. It is a big rolled-up container for just about any tasty ingredients. From an entertaining point of view, the beauty of an egg roulade is that you can make it the day ahead, chill it overnight, and then fill…
Ginger: What is the best way to store fresh ginger?
I recently got an e-mail from Jane asking how to store fresh ginger and remembered that I had a collection of suggestions in Sara Moulton Cooks at Home. Here’s what I said, “Whenever I have Asian chefs on my show, they tell me they use ginger in so many recipes…
Everyday Family Dinners Won!
On Thursday, June 2nd, the International Association of Culinary Professionals announced the winners of their awards for the best cookbooks published in 2010 and Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners won the Children, Youth and Family category. This was the 25th year of the cookbook awards and I was delighted to…
Crispy Soft-shell Crabs with Country Ham Butter
The first time I ate soft-shell crabs was at the New York World’s Fair in 1964. Looking back, I can’t imagine where I found the nerve to try them. I didn’t even like fish. But try them I did, and I was knocked out by the sweet crabmeat and that…