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George Washington Ate Here – Shad Roe with Brown Butter, Capers and Ginger
You will never see it on a restaurant menu. The TV Food Network is unlikely to devote an hour to its history and preparation. It is one of the great forgotten foods of American culinary culture. I’m...
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Fireworks for the Fourth of July – Pickled Eggs 3 Ways
Pickled Eggs 3 Ways is the final and most colorful installment in our recent trilogy of egg recipes. We made two batches of each of these eggs, a week apart, both to test the recipes and so I could...
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What the world needs now is. . . Goat’s Milk Panna Cotta with Star Anise and...
Another panna cotta recipe? Really? As well ask, Does the world need another saxophone riff? Another short story? Another poem? Of course it does. Look, if you're filleting fugu or sautéing false...
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Seared Brussels Sprouts with Vietnamese Dipping Sauce
The idea was to come up with a side dish for Thanksgiving. But after much soul searching and a brainstorming session based on What do you do with Brussels sprouts? we decided that the world wasn't...
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Fennel-Carrot Soup with Ginger
After the complexities of the Blue Zone, we thought some simple pressure-cooker* recipes would make a welcome change of pace. Fennel-Carrot Soup with Ginger is the first of 4 or 5 PC posts (vote with...
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Chili-Ginger Granita with Watermelon and Pistachios
Our summertime preferences for sweets run to the light and refreshing, as versus the dense and sensual. I want to rise from the table and feel as though I've beaten the heat and humidity, not stoked...
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Sadie’s Gingersnaps
If you're looking for something homemade this weekend but are ready to give elaborate cooking a rest, here's a treat, Sadie's Gingersnaps. The eponymous Sadie is the grandmother of our great friend...
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BUCATINI WITH RED AND GREEN TOMATOES
Every pasta shape is lovable, if only it finds the right sauce. But deep down inside, we know whom we love best. For me it's bucatini. Bucatini is what spaghetti would be if it had a gym...
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EASY PECAN GINGER TILES AND DANCING ON THE BAR
The story of these Easy Pecan Tiles begins in a Paris museum and ends a couple of hours after Jody dances atop a bar in a Boston restaurant (a groundbreaker for both of us). First Paris, then the...
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STUFFED EGGPLANT WITH FARRO, GINGER AND POMEGRANATE
I returned from Istanbul a few weeks ago with an eggplant monkey on my back. During those brief periods in Turkey when I wasn't stuffing myself with baklava, I was slavering over Turkish eggplant....
View ArticleGINGER-TURMERIC CHICKEN WITH LIME YOGURT AND COCONUT RICE
I’m yielding the floor to Jody this week. There’s a good story about how I lost my grip, its effects on a poor chicken, and Jody finding a solution despite the malfunction of the wheyback machine. ***...
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