The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Warm Soft Chocolate Cake
So again I find myself with a recipe that I want to shout about from the rooftops. I already ambushed my neighbor on her way to her car, now it’s viral time. Hesser rightly points out that this dish became too popular for its own good in the 1990s. It started out on…
The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Jean Yves Legarve’s Spaghetti with Lemon and Asparagus Sauce
Well this is awkward. Not only did it take some digging to find this recipe in The New York Times archives but I can’t find “Jean Yves Legarve” (if that is his real name) anywhere in the Google-verse. I even had a heck of a time finding Michele Evans who wrote the…
The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Moroccan Chicken Smothered in Olives
This was a great dish with wonderful flavor. Even the husband liked it a lot, despite the fact that it’s all dark meat. Also I think I’ve found a new favorite spice: smoked paprika. Smokey, as you might expect, and complex. Best of all, McCormick makes it so they had…
Off Topic: Croissants
Raise your hand if you think croissants are hard to make. Wow, that’s a lot of hands. And last week, I would have been right there with you. But guess what? They’re not! Yay, now we can have them every day! In fact, Tom Petty must have had…
The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Spanish Fricco
It’s hard to start off a cookbook with a disappointing dish. And this one sounded so promising: layers of thinly-pounded beef, potatoes and onions, laced with butter and cream and baked in water bath for a couple of hours. How could that go wrong? And it’s not so…