Previously Tarragon Chicken » All French in a Flash recipes » One thing that hasn't changed since childhood is that I love playing with food. As a cook, that now means using ingredients in ways as creative as my...
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"Feel free to go crazy with your choice of cheese—goat is just the beginning." [Flickr: quinn.anya] Bread pudding is a great way to deal with stale bread laying around and just so happens to be fabulous and very homey dessert....
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Note: Serious Eater Michael Natkin of the vegetarian blog Herbivoracious drops by every Wednesday to share a delicious recipe to expand our vegetarian repertoire. It seems like everyone wants to eat locally these days. One of my favorite ways to...
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One of the few premade food products I am more than happy to cook with is frozen puff pastry. The stuff is magical. Making puff pastry from scratch is undoubtedly a wonderful experience (one I've never had the pleasure...
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I just can't seem to resist any new hash brown recipe I come across. That's especially true if the recipe is called a hash brown potato cake. I just love the way those words sound strung together: hash-brown-potato-cake. I've adapted...
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They're nothing new, but I am still rather enamored of the pre-cooked, shrink-wrapped beets you can buy in the grocery store. I first encountered them a few years ago at Fairway in Brooklyn, but living in Estonia they're ubiquitous...
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Editor's note: Philadelphia food writers Joy Manning and Tara Mataraza Desmond drop by each week with Meat Lite, which celebrates meat in moderation. Meat Lite was inspired by their book, Almost Meatless. This is a cross between crispy flatbread and...
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The inspiration for this dinner began when I came across David Lebovitz's post about authentic French Puy lentils ("the caviar of lentils"), a wonderful pantry staple for quick sides and light meals. French green lentils (especially the certified "de...
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Continuing on my rolling trend, I decided to take this method to some vegetables. I saw a photo a couple years ago of grilled eggplant rolled with goat cheese, and it has been in the back of my mind...
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Photograph from _Nezemnaya_ on Flickr Short of la grande dame Deen herself, I doubt anyone would serve Rick Tramonto's Italian-style pancakes with extra butter. The silver dollar cakes are crammed so full of goat cheese and ricotta that all you...
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