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Pasta al Pomodoro

Pasta al Pomodoro

  Hope you are all enjoying a safe and happy Tomato Season. For many of us, it's a celebratory time; a time to consume tomatoes every way we can imagine: BLTs, bruschetta, panzanella, galettes, caprese salads, tomato tarts, gazpacho... And fresh tomato sauce....

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Blueberry Cream Pie

Blueberry Cream Pie

Get a load of this stunner. If summer were a pie... The blueberry flavor is optimized and heightened by combining whole berries with a blueberry puree and finished with a touch of lemon. All poured into a graham cracker crust and topped with a heavenly alloy of...

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Cherry Pie

Cherry Pie

Cherry pie is my favorite pie I don't even have to think about it. Last week I managed to hit the farmer's market at the exact right moment to get the tart cherries I needed for this recipe and therefore achieved pie nirvana and am now deceased. I did not grow up...

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Blueberry Biscuits

Blueberry Biscuits

I was intrigued by this recipe when it took a certainly nonconsensual ride on the social media rollercoaster on a facebook cooking group I belong to. It went like this: popular>wildly popular>backlash ("would people PLEASE stop posting about these biscuits!"...

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Classic Martini

Classic Martini

I know everyone is joking about how much drinking is going on right now. Oh, were you waiting for a "but..." and then something witty? Something Nick-and-Nora-Charles-ish? No time for that because I need to talk about my new hobby: the Classic Martini. It's taken...

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Caponata

Caponata

I cannot begin to tell you how hard I fell for this. As promised it's sweet and sour but also luscious without being unctuous.  I followed the advice in the comments section and sauteed cubed eggplant in the same pan before adding the other ingredients, no need to...

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Deep Dish Pizza

Deep Dish Pizza

I don't know why I keep trying to replicate Lou Malnati's pizza; I live in Chicago so I am never more than about 60 minutes away from eating the real thing. But I do.  Perhaps because even when it doesn't quite get there what you're probably left with is a damn...

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Shrimp in Chipotle Sauce

Shrimp in Chipotle Sauce

This fell flat for me and I'm not sure why.  I suspect the (suggested) addition of sour cream might be the culprit but I can't put my finger on it.  Certainly no fault of the recipe, in fact when I checked back with the Milk Street Facebook group I saw that this...

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Cassoulet

Cassoulet

Earlier this year, Melissa Clark published The New Essentials of French Cooking in the New York Times and I took it as a personal challenge from Melissa to me.  To which I said, out loud in my home, like a boss "game on Melissa. Game on." And why not start with the...

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Hummus and Pita

Hummus and Pita

It's not difficult to understand the crazy popularity of hummus.  Easy to make (with ingredients found almost anywhere), vaguely healthy, cheap, and versatile.   But like many popular things, it has strayed very far from authenticity.  People have added all kinds...

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Funfetti Cake

Funfetti Cake

Unlike Molly, and maybe many of you, this was not an "iconic cake of my childhood" mainly because I was a child in the 1960s and cake innovation technology just wasn't there yet. But even without the strong pull of nostalgia, how can you not be drawn to this cake? It's got "fun" right in the title for crying out loud!

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Appetites

Appetites

I've been a fan of Anthony Bourdain's since Kitchen Confidential and I've always felt a little bad for him in that he's gotten one of those super-sticky labels that famous people acquire (sometimes unfairly), in his case: "bad boy," or "the bad boy of cooking."  It...

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Summer Panzanella Salad

Summer Panzanella Salad

When I combine my obsession with in-season tomatoes with the fact that I love bread so much that I would happily eat a baguette for dessert, I am inevitably led to one thing: panzanella. Bread and tomato salad. There are as many recipes for panzanella as the...

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No Knead Bread, encore

No Knead Bread, encore

I don't know what you were doing in 2006 (launching Twitter? Introducing skinny jeans?) but I, along with the rest of the cooking world, was going bonkers over No Knead Bread.  What attracted me to the recipe was not liberation from kneading (I like kneading) but...

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  1. Just watched the Cook's Country Video relative to this delightful sounding recipe. In case anyone is interested ... go to…

  2. I used a glass dish and just ran a knife around all the edges and a spatula to loosen the…

  3. I made these but they tasted sour? Is it possible to use milk instead of buttermilk or possibly more sugar…

  4. I made this recipe yesterday and they are delicious. One problem I encountered was I used a glass 8" pan,…