What does a bread baker do with all the time on her hands amid the lockdown? Well, my focus has been to bake breads that require…
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Butter-Poached Corn with Squid-Ink Pasta | Everyday Dorie
Three weeks into the lockdown, we can cook anything we want for the coronavirus edition at Cook-the-Book-Friday. I choose the butter-poached corn with egg noodles since…
Appetizer/ Pantry essentials/ Sauté/ Side/ Toss/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Bulgur with Mushrooms and Feta | Ottolenghi’s Simple
An efficient and well-sourced pantry of everyday ingredients my family loves to eat has taken me years to establish. The pantry inspires the wellspring of ideas…
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Last-of-the-Bunch Banana Bundt | Everyday Dorie
The New York metropolitan area is now the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. With the ever-rising community infections, going out to the grocery stores can be…
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Ginger Fried Rice | Everyday Dorie
Dorie Greenspan in Everyday Dorie shows us how to use ginger to make fried rice taste fantastically fresh and enlivened. This turns out far better than…
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Chickpea Tahini Salad | Everyday Dorie
Why have I not put together a chickpea tahini salad instead of blending all the same ingredients to make hummus? Good question. We are, by and…
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Pasta with Cabbage and Winter Squash | Everyday Dorie
“Some dishes just pop into your head while you’re fretting that there’s nothing in the house for dinner,” quoting Dorie Greenspan’s in Everyday Dorie. We all…
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Pasta with Roasted Cauliflower | Veggies Forward
My new year resolution is to continue the healthy trend of a plant-based plan. The minimalist approach of pasta with cauliflower is originally derived from a…
The herb tabbouleh with pomegranate and za’atar dressing recipe comes from Jamie Oliver. It gets my attention because of the sparkling pomegranate seeds. There is one…
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Basic Miso Soup | Temple Food
There are a few dishes which come to my mind instantly when I think Asian. They are dim sum, steam fish and miso soup. Dim sum…
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Roast Chicken with Preserved Lemon | Ottolenghi
There are many ways to skin a cat. By the same token, there are many ways to roast a chicken. I don’t roast a chicken whole…
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Soba Noodle Salad | Mark Bittman
For a weekday dinner, there’s nothing more convenient than reaching into the pantry. In this case, when soba noodle is available, you have an easy and…
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Tomato and Peach Panzanella | Everyday Dorie
Dorie starts by saying: “panzanella is an Italian salad that has toured the world and picked up ingredients and ingenious additions at every port.” Instead of…
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Spiced Buttermilk Cod with Lentil | Ottolenghi
My Sunday ritual of late involves going to the farmers’ market, get some fresh-caught seafood and cook it for dinner. I have been repeating this routine…
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Shakshuka | My Paris Kitchen
Shakshuka is a dish of eggs poached in a spiced sauce of tomatoes. It has its origin in North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia), although the dish…
June starts with the letter J. How many ingredients starting with “J” can I put into a summer dish? That’s the IHCC’S challenge this week. Thanks,…
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Lokanta Stew | Roasted Vegetables with Butter Beans
A lokanta, or “tradesmen’s restaurant,” is where you can find delicious home-cooked style food in Turkey. This dish is a healthy, vegan, roasted vegetable stew. Other…
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Irish Soda Bread | Nigel’s Lazy Loaf
Nigel Slater calls this bread his lazy loaf, I’ll rather call it the Irish soda bread. Although there are only four to five ingredients involved, I…
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Green Olive, Basil and Almond Tapenade
This is the third tapenade we make from David Lebovitz’s recipes in My Paris Kitchen with our friends at Cook-the-Book-Fridays. Years ago, we made artichoke tapenade,…
Every time I walk by the Trader Joe’s freezer section and see siu mai, I want some to go. One little bite of the juicy, bouncy…
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Fannie Farmer’s Classic Yeast-Raised Waffles
The 1896 original Fannie Farmer’s classic yeast-raised waffles are finding their ways on this blog via Marion Cunningham’s completely updated cookbook published in 1979. I don’t…
There are big flavor bombs in the brown rice with caramelized onions and black garlic dish. I can taste it the moment I read this recipe.…
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Smoked Fish and Parsnip Cakes | Make Ahead
How do you make a cake without the usual sugar and wheat flour, in other words, a more nutritious kind for everyday eating? The answer is…
It’s starting to feel like December when the temperature is dropping by each passing day. Ruth Reichl writes: “the Tuscan bean soup is one of the…
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Traditional Tabbouleh | My Paris Kitchen
We made tabbouleh this week at Cook-the-Book-Fridays. This is another raw vegetable dish from My Paris Kitchen by David Lebovitz. He also introduced us to fattoush…