Recipes

Je t’aime, Coq au Vin

October 23, 2006

Go and buy the Nov/Dec issue of Cook’s Illustrated. Go now. It food gold. Food gold. Aand dear readers, the following post breaks practically all of our standards; if you’re looking a fast, inexpensive meal, you should look here or here (or here), because this certainly isn’t one of them. When I saw the coq [...]

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From the Office for Unmitigated Failure: Strawberry Frittata

July 5, 2006

I will adapt from Alice B. Toklas, cookbook author. “The [frittata] was dead, killed, assassinated, murdered in the first, second, and third degree. Limp, I fell into a chair with my hands still unwashed , reached for a cigarette, lighted it and waited for the police to come.” In the last few weeks, I have [...]

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From Recipe Development: Strawberry Frittata

June 20, 2006

This has a weird story behind it, so I may as well get it out of the way. There’s a subway performer that I talk to in the 14th Street traverse – that hot, awful, uphill, block-long tunnel from 6th to 7th Avenues. Richard plays the flugelhorn, which is basically a mellower-sounding trumpet, and he [...]

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SHARK! (and pasta and chicken, but they aren’t nearly as exciting)

June 1, 2006

Before we start, I’ll admit that I’ve been sucking at my $5/day diet. Completely sucking. Great food has been gotten and made, but for much, much more money than I have. These recipes represent my attempts to get back into the austerity diet I so desperately need to follow. First, an easy one. A month [...]

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Itty Bitty Success (or Nothing Rhymes with Anchovy)

April 28, 2006

Two days ago I decided to take the Itty Bitty Kitchen Handbook ($12.95, Broadway Books) for a spin. The aptly small book by Justin Spring gives advice on small-kitchen management as well as recipes engineered to squeak every last ounce of potential out of your amazingly small kitchen. It’s full of useful lists (pots and [...]

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