by Kate | Jun 8, 2011 | Cook's Country
From the June 2011 issue of Cook’s Country magazine comes a wonderful addition to your summer cooking/grilling bag of tricks. This is a quick and absolutely delicious steak taco with carefully edited garnishes (proving again that you do not have to drown every...
by Kate | Jun 2, 2011 | Cook's Illustrated magazine
This has been one of our favorite grilling recipes for a long time and it’s always one of the first things I make when the weather gets warm. Although Cook’s Illustrated categorizes it as an appetizer (as do most Thai restaurants) I didn’t see why...
by Kate | Feb 6, 2011 | The Essential New York Times Cookbook
It’s hard to start off a cookbook with a disappointing dish. And this one sounded so promising: layers of thinly-pounded beef, potatoes and onions, laced with butter and cream and baked in water bath for a couple of hours. How could that go wrong? And...
by Kate | Jan 16, 2011 | Cook's Country
I made “real” Beef Wellington once. And it took days. Even without making the puff pastry or the pate from scratch, it was quite a project: a scrumptious and complicated red wine sauce made with oxtails, the Duxelles, the proper cooking of an...
by Kate | Nov 7, 2010 | Cook's Illustrated magazine
This is one of our favorite stir-fry dishes and if I can only convey one thing to you about this recipe it is this: do NOT fear the fish sauce. Believe me, I’m as adverse to the stuff, in its undiluted form, as anyone. When I’m pouring it out I...
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