A great day in the test kitchen!
Resulting in some lovely treasures... and causing some recipe ruminations...
I had cubed sweet potatoes.
And one of my treasures was a trove of chorizo.
So, naturally, something Spanish and vaguely hash-y seemed…
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Stew's was having another chicken sale: 99 cents a pound! Therefore, a chicken was in order as the ice and snow raged outside...
I was in the midst of making bread, so by the time those gorgeous loaves came out…
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OK.
This is most definitively A First World Problem... The end-of-the-week fridge clean-out at the Test Kitchen netted me some AMAZINGLY incredible ingredients: scallions, bean sprouts, many greens and herbs... and a lobster.
You heard me... A lobster.
I didn't…
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So...
The Friday Fridge Clear-out in the test kitchen netted me: orange peppers, watercress, onion, radishes, rosemary, grape tomatoes...
I had a wacky idea.
So I sliced the radishes into matchsticks, minced some garlic, diced the peppers, thin-sliced the onion…
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One of the perks of recipe testing and working in magazine kitchens is the food one gets to take home. This time, I was given some beautiful butternut squash...
I roasted it and froze the purée to use at some…
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Albondigas!!!
After another wonderful day working with the remarkable Adeena Sussman testing recipes, I was sent home with a bag full of goodies... including a bit of the wonderful meatball mixture we'd worked on earlier in the day. I was…
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The end-of-the-week fridge clean-out at the test kitchen netted me a remarkable and varied bounty...
One of the great treasures was an embarrassment of fennel bulbs. I love cooked fennel, but I'm not wild about the overly licorice-type taste of…
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So I had a hankerin'...
Yes, Dear Reader, I just said "hankerin'..."
...for chicken paprikash, a meal we used to have frequently with our good friend Woody Romoff, a wonderful actor who's been dead for a shocking number of years.
…
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Well, well, well...
About 15 beautiful shrimp were sitting half-cooked in the fridge after the pasta we had the other night. Plus some brown rice from a few days ago. And cubed potatoes that I hadn't cooked.
This all seemed…
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I had this meatball craving. But I wasn't in a pasta frame of mind.
So I thought a little experiment was in order.
I took about 3/4 lb. ground beef, mixed it with a panade made of stale baguette, milk…
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I know...
Even saying it's a mouthful!
AND... I have to warn you: this may not be a very helpful recipe per se, but these burgers were so good I had to post.
The problem is, you'd have to have…
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Longtime reader and good friend of TOC, Mary Houston, sent us a great picture of her innovative combining of pizza with the required "good luck" New Year's Day foods. She says:
This is what I made with my leftovers…
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Whenever you taste that rich culinary wonder that is a chicken roasted in your own oven, it's almost as satisfying to think about what to do with all that savory meat in the days to come...
So let's start with…
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I had a thawed chicken breast.
I had fresh ricotta.
I had ham from a Christmas party I'd worked.
So... Chicken breast roulade... Stuffed with fresh ricotta and minced ham!
I minced about 1/3 C ham, and added about 1/3…
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This year's batches of Snowballs...
http://www.thisoldchef.com/blog.html/christmas_cookies_snowballs/
...My favorite of all the Christmas cookies made by my mother... Turned out to be the best ever!
And I think there are two reasons:
1) I used toasted walnuts instead of pecans; and
…
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