Entries tagged with 'Simon Hopkinson'
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If you've been following Erin Zimmer's search for the best hot chocolate in New York (here's a taste) you must be in the mood to make your own serious hot chocolate at home. I know I am, so I was...
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Unlike apples and oranges, pears can be a frustrating fruit. It's hard to tell when exactly they should be eaten, and their window of perfect ripeness is small. Who hasn't bought a bowlful of slightly firm pears only to...
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Back in January our own Ed Levine, a self-professed "roast chicken freak," brought you Simon Hopkinson's version of the classic Sunday supper dish, excerpted from his first cookbook, Roast Chicken and Other Stories. In Simon's newest book, Second Helpings...
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Today, mussels are one of the easiest types of seafood to prepare. Most varieties are cultivated on environmentally responsible farms and can be purchased squeaky clean, without a dead one in the bunch. But Simon Hopkinson, author of this...
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The following recipe is from the November 5th edition of our weekly recipe newsletter. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, sign up here! Simon Hopkinson, author of Second Helpings of Roast Chicken, believes linguine to be "one of the...
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While most vegetables are never as good frozen as they are fresh (who hasn't defrosted a box of broccoli, only to find it limp, mushy, and bordering on brown?) peas are an exception. It's true that frozen peas are...
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Simon Hopkinson, author of this week's Cook the Book selection, Second Helpings of Roast Chicken, doesn't understand the concept of garnishing cream soups. "Why laboriously purée and sieve if you then put the lumpy bits back in?" Croutons, however, he...
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This piperade recipe is from Simon Hopkinson's terrific book, Roast Chicken and Other Stories. As Hopkinson says in his headnote, piperade is essentially a dish of savory scrambled eggs. He says what's important about a dish like this is that...
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This week's Cook the Book is Roast Chicken and Other Stories by Simon Hopkinson. If you haven't heard of Hopkinson, chances are you aren't English; in Britain, this book was voted the most useful cookbook ever by a group of...
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This week's Cook the Book is Roast Chicken and Other Stories by Simon Hopkinson. If you haven't heard of Hopkinson, chances are you aren't English; in Britain, this book was voted the most useful cookbook ever by a group of...
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