After a week of labor-intensive recipes from New Classic Family Dinners by Mark Peel, I was ready for something that required a little less work. I had originally picked up some trout to make Peel's take on matelote, a fish...
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Note: Throughout October, Kerry's secret ingredient is liquid smoke. [Photographs: Kerry Saretsky] Previously Smoky Bison Sandwiches » All Secret Ingredient coverage » My inspiration for experimenting with liquid smoke came from a dish I had in a restaurant once, which...
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At the risk of sounding like a hypocrite, sometimes I enjoy the cocktail hour snacks that I have assembled before a dinner party more than the dinner itself. As a home cook I am incapable of making a simple dinner...
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One of my favorite ways to eat whole fish is to dress it simply in salt and olive oil, and stuff it with whole twigs of rosemary and thyme. Then I either broil it in the oven, or char...
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"Unwrapping the unlucky but delicious trout feels something like Christmas." My grandmother is my own Edith Piaf. Mémé has a voice that trembles on the air, buoyed up by soprano aspirations. It is a beautiful but homemade voice--like a quilt....
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Smoked trout is a criminally underreported ingredient in my book. Smoked salmon gets all kinds of attention, in its cold-smoked form as the centerpiece of bagels, but the humble trout has no one to sing its praises. It's always...
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"The key to dressing like a French woman is to remember that every woman is a sun in the blue sky. Clouds only diminish; moons only eclipse." For all the finery of Paris's Baroque buildings, for all the playful hues...
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Photograph from nate steiner on Flickr Though the authors of Almost Meatless call this soup a chowder, it's got more in common with the Scottish classic, cullen skink, also made with milk, potatoes, and smoked fish. The bold flavor of...
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The other day at the fish counter, where I'd gone to buy a fillet of salmon, I found myself confused by my options. The salmon I'd planned to purchase looked a little less than fresh, so I decided to pass....
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