Sometimes a certain dish calls out to you, maybe prompted by a picture, a season, a memory, a craving, a passing aroma. In paging through the recipes in this book one thing I really wanted to make was a barbecued beef sandwich that would taste like one from this...
This recipe attempts to solve a couple of eggplant problems: excessive moisture and an unpleasant texture best described as "spongy." Grilling (vs. other cooking methods) itself solves the moisture by letting it all drip away. To avoid sponginess we are slicing...
Apparently a Minneapolis tavern specialty, the Juicy Lucy is a burger with the cheese -- are you sitting down? -- inside. Wow, way to blow our minds, half of the Twin Cities! I'm not sure what the advantage is to a cheese surprise but it's a cheeseburger and I...
I have made so many disappointing grilled, glazed pork tenderloins. They look so good and yet they never seem to work for me. I have the same relationship with J Crew clothes. Typically what happens is the glaze gets completely charred and never penetrates beyond...
If you want to serve something to the vegetarians in your life that will make the meat eaters drool, Pin this right now. It's an absolute star of a meatless entree that is no way an after-thought or an apology. As I was preparing this, and especially when I sat...
Guess what? America's Test Kitchen contacted me and asked me to review their new book. You know what that means? Yep. I won. It's possible that they sent the same email to dozens of bloggers, food journalists, respected practitioners of the culinary arts like...
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