Note: Michael Natkin of the vegetarian blog Herbivoracious drops by every Wednesday to share a delicious recipe and expand our vegetarian repertoire. [Photograph: Michael Natkin] With all of the concerns about food safety, most people (Alton Brown included) don't actually...
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"I took a ten-minute break to wallow in my failure then returned to the grill—but those ten minutes made all the puffy difference." [Photographs: Joshua Bousel] Given my rough relationship with bread-making, I had little hope that grilling pita pockets...
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[Photographs: Carolyn Cope] In the Crisper Featured Veg: Fuzzy squash, aka fuzzy melon, hairy melon, hairy gourd, Mo Qua. Prep: Peel. Then dice, grate, or slice. Eat: Raw, pickled, braised, stir-fried, stuffed. Substitute: Summer squash (cooked) or cucumber (raw)....
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Note: Due to pilot error, this recipe post crashed sometime Saturday night after I fiddled with it—only a few hours after taking flight. I just worked with FoolishPoolish to restore it and am bumping it back up in the queue...
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As the summer swelter begins to arrive, I'm sometimes as adverse to cooking dinner as I am to wearing wool socks. There are just some days when actually contributing to the amount of heat in the house seems like...
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To honor his approximately 50 percent Jewish clientele, French chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud has served homemade matzo in his New York City restaurants—Daniel, DB Bistro, Cafe Boulud, and Bar Boulud—during the Passover season since 2004. And people love...
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Making this salad should have had me seriously craving produce at its summertime peak—especially juicy tomatoes, which are the main event in panzanella, an Italian bread salad. This recipe is kind of a riff on panzanella, yet it was...
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The following recipe is from the March 4th edition of our weekly recipe newsletter. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, sign up here! Some recipes for oatmeal bread call for simply tossing some uncooked rolled oats in with the...
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©iStockphoto.com/jerryhat In Nancy Baggett's Kneadlessly Simple index, this recipe rates a "Super Easy": short ingredient list, one-stage mixing, and no hand-shaping. The fussiest part of the whole process is toasting the walnuts to intensify their flavor. French walnut bread,...
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I was left in a quandary last weekend. My desire to have naan to go along with Indian kabobs on the grill clashed with my fear of bread-making. The battle was ultimately won by necessity. How could you have...
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