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Mushroom Rolls
This is a recipe that I remember my mother and my aunt making frequently—it is a good choice for anyone who doesn’t feel he or she has the time to make homemade dough. I’ve adapted it from my aunt Jean’s recipe where she uses “homemade-style” white bread as a stand-in…
Three Ingredient Apple Crisp
Photo by Jessica Leibowitz If you don’t count the salt (and you shouldn’t), you might wonder how the heck anyone can make a delicious apple crisp with just three ingredients. The answer is by starting with granola, which comes equipped with oats, nuts, sugar, and dried fruit. (Is this cheating? …
It is almost time to enter the Create Cooking Challenge
And I am a judge!!!! Create is looking for our next culinary star! The Create Cooking Challenge is back, and this year’s theme is Easy Peasy. Show us your best recipe with six ingredients or less The Challenge is a contest open to lay and professional chefs to create…
Cheesy Baked Grits
A kind of carbo-licious porridge made from dried and coarsely ground corn, grits are to Southern cuisine what potatoes are to Northern cuisine – a deeply satisfying staple. These days we’re starting to see grits all over the country. Oftentimes, they’ll show up at breakfast seasoned with salt and pepper,…
Milk Street Radio: Dwight Garner’s Obsession with Word and the Table
We’re joined by New York Times book critic and author Dwight Garner. He presents food quips from his favorite writers, as well as John Updike’s lunch routine and Hunter S. Thompson’s party tricks. Plus, anthropologist Manvir Singh helps us digest the world of “meat-fluencers” and their all-meat diets; A Way…
Clam Tomato and Bacon Stew with Grilled Garlic Bread
Cooked hard-shell clams are an unbeatable two-for-the price-of-one delight – you get the clams themselves and the clam liquid they give off as they cook, which creates an instant sauce with astonishing depth of flavor. And it’s simple. You just combine the clams with some liquid (and aromatics, if you…
Milk Street Radio: Jacques Pepin – The Art of the Chicken
This week, we’re celebrating French cuisine. Jacques Pépin offers a masterclass in deboning chicken and recalls his early days tending the coal stove at the Plaza Athénée. Plus, Aleksandra Crapanzano provides tips for effortlessly Parisian cakes; Alex Aïnouz puts a very French spin on the classic American burger; and we…
If you want a box of gorgeous tasty produce delivered to your door, you must check out this new opportunity.
The Chefs Garden, a huge farm in Huron, Ohio, has been supplying chefs around the country with delicious produce for many years. Now that most restaurants are closed and produce is sitting in the field, Lee Jones, the founder of chef’s garden (a friend, and a guest many years ago…
Salade Niçoise
Inspired by the produce in my box from Chefs Garden, I made one of Julia Child’s favorite salads – Salade Niçoise. Anytime she invited people over for lunch she made this salad. You can see both the fresh baby lettuces and also a mix of micro greens, micro herbs (those…
Butterscotch Pudding Cake
When I was a kid and we visited Cambridge, my parents used to take me to an old-fashioned ice cream parlor in Harvard Square. They served a butterscotch sundae made of coffee ice cream, hot butterscotch sauce, and whipped cream. Boy it was good! This pudding cake reminds me of…