If you tend to follow a recipe to a t for predictable results, especially in uncertain times, this one is for you. This recipe shows you…
Let’s be honest. Easy cassoulet is an oxymoron. It isn’t easy without committing the labor, time, lots of ingredients and mindfulness to make a cassoulet. Cassoulet…
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Roasted Butternut Squash Soup | Everyday Dorie
I love a butternut squash soup. This is the last of the bunch of butternut squash I stowed away before the lockdown. So I have to…
Appetizer/ Bake/ cheese/ foundation recipe/ puff pastry/ Side
Leek and Onion Quiche | Ottolenghi’s Plenty More
Quiche is popular with take-out menus. My favorite recipe of all times is the membrillo and stilton quiche which I posted quite some time ago. The…
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Herby Zucchini and Peas with Semolina Porridge | Ottolenghi’s “Simple”
In lockdown, nights roll into mornings, mornings into days, and days upon days with no defined schedules or boundaries. Likewise, it seems to me our appetite…
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Braised Lamb Shanks with Tomatoes and Olives | Everyday Dorie
Do you remember the last restaurant meal you had before the lockdown? Yes, it was in a restaurant in Vermont on one of our ski weekends…
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Buckwheat and Haricots Verts Salad | Ottolenghi’s Simple
How do we make it through another day? Exercise our ingenuity and steel our resolve to combat the virus day by day. It’s going to be…
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…
The shelter-in-place order is less of an interruption of daily life than I thought. I use the unique opportunity of being home to clean out my…
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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…
This is one sheet-pan and 10-ingredients cooking at its best. Dorie in Everyday Dorie gives us a perfect and quick recipe for a weekday dinner. The…
For all the years of cooking, making chicken curry remains to be one which I haven’t quite mastered. It doesn’t matter what recipe I follow, the…
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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…
I make a rack of lamb in remembrance of my dad who passed away at age 94 on Jan 2nd 2020. A few years ago, we…
It is not season for broad (or fava) beans, therefore I substitute peas to make the dip. Do you know that fava bean is the primary…
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Pasta with Shrimp, Zucchini, Lemon and Herbs | Everyday Dorie
This is another play-around recipe from Everyday Dorie. Pasta and shrimp are the backbone for this dish. Vegetables can be anything from zucchini, spinach, kale to…
To combat food waste in the home kitchen, it’s best to to recycle throw-aways that can be repurposed. Remaining stalks and greens from vegetables can be…
Smoked paprika, also known as pimentón, is the magic behind the sweet and smoky roasted carrots recipe from Everyday Dorie. At first, I automatically think liquid…
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…
The Gourmet Cookbook calls this recipe the 21-century beef wellington. What makes it 21-century, you may ask? Notably, substitute a traditional pâté de foie gras and…
You have to take notice when the recipe says: “we seriously urge you to give this a go, even if it sounds overtly over the top.”…
The best part of the gingered-turkey meatball soup is the meatball. The fact that you can prepare the meatballs ahead and freeze them makes this recipe…
This is lifted from Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for vegetarian Christmas. With an Asian spin of black miso rice and the old stand-by brussels sprouts, this dish…