Central Mexican Guacamole and Chili-Pineapple Margarita
Oh guacamole. You are so embedded into American food culture that we have formed strong, chili-like opinions about the best, the most authentic and the most worthy recipes. Because we need more stuff to fight about. According to Milk Street, the version out of...
The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Stir-Fried Chicken with Creamed Corn
This is, by far, the weirdest stir-fry dish I have ever made or heard of. Part of the reason I decided to make it was because it was so intriguing in its improbability. Had the normally sane and rational Mark Bittman taken leave of his senses? Was the date on this...
Off Topic: Arizona Biltmore Salad
I actually have a "real" job and sometimes it takes me to wonderful places. Recently I was obliged to go to the Arizona Biltmore. Wow. I think it might literally be heaven. I would advise you not to get a room directly above the bar but, other than that, I...
The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Welsh Rarebit
There's something really fun and somewhat risky about making a recipe from 1875. How do you even translate something that was probably made on a wood-burning stove to modern-day equipment? And didn't people have very different tastes back then? I mean, they ate a...
The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Spinach Dip and La Paloma
Or as it's formally known: The Best Spinach Dip with Chipotle and Lime (from Melissa Clark, 2007). This was delicious. It is a pretty standard spinach dip but, as the name suggests, chipotle peppers, cilantro and lime make it special. It's quite easy; everything...
The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Warm Soft Chocolate Cake
So again I find myself with a recipe that I want to shout about from the rooftops. I already ambushed my neighbor on her way to her car, now it's viral time. Hesser rightly points out that this dish became too popular for its own good in the 1990s. It started out on...
The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Jean Yves Legarve’s Spaghetti with Lemon and Asparagus Sauce
Well this is awkward. Not only did it take some digging to find this recipe in The New York Times archives but I can't find "Jean Yves Legarve" (if that is his real name) anywhere in the Google-verse. I even had a heck of a time finding Michele Evans who wrote the...