A lemon and berry stripe cake is an answer to this timely question. What do I miss most during this Covid season? Not so much the…
Appetizer/ Bake/ Dorie Greenspan/ Fish/ my favorites/ pastry/ Seafood
Lower East Side Brunch Tart | Everyday Dorie
The Lower East Side brunch tart is Cook-the-Book-Friday community project to pay tribute to a fellow member Chez Nana/Ro who passed away in June. Ro was…
Alice Waters/ Berry/ classics/ dessert/ easy everyday/ my favorites
Chez Panisse’s Blueberry Cobbler
It’s July 4 and blueberry season, a perfect occasion for a blueberry cobbler. I’ve been eyeing to make the Chez Panisse’s blueberry cobbler for a long…
autumn/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ my favorites/ Roast/ Simmer/ Soup
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup | Everyday Dorie
I love a butternut squash soup. This is the last of the bunch of butternut squash I stowed away before the lockdown. So I have to…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ enriched dough/ my favorites/ Pantry essentials/ pasta/ Side
Butter-Poached Corn with Squid-Ink Pasta | Everyday Dorie
Three weeks into the lockdown, we can cook anything we want for the coronavirus edition at Cook-the-Book-Friday. I choose the butter-poached corn with egg noodles since…
Blanch/ Dairy free/ easy everyday/ Gluten free/ Low fat/ my favorites/ Roast/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Roasted Spring Vegetables with Tahini Sauce | Ottolenghi
The roasted spring vegetables is a version of Ottolenghi’s whole roasted cauliflower with tahini sauce inspired by the multi-color cauliflowers I’ve found lately in the market.…
You can find an apple crisp and a custard tourte (apple kuchen) on this blog. Both are delicious and the crisp is much easier to put…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fish/ my favorites/ Roast/ Sauté
Miso-Glazed Salmon | Everyday Dorie
Dorie’s miso-glazed salmon is inspired by a similar dish at Nobu, the iconic miso-glazed black cod. It is the dish I’d very much like to have…
5 ingredients or less/ convection steam/ easy everyday/ my favorites/ Roast/ year round
Roasted Whole Cauliflower | Green Tahini Sauce
I am a roasted-vegetables die-hard fan — for good reasons. Roasting a whole head of cauliflower takes time. Say about one to two hours in the…
Braise/ Fish/ my favorites/ Pantry essentials/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Spiced Buttermilk Cod with Lentil | Ottolenghi
My Sunday ritual of late involves going to the farmers’ market, get some fresh-caught seafood and cook it for dinner. I have been repeating this routine…
dessert/ Fruit/ Jim Lahey/ Low fat/ my favorites/ quick cake/ scalable
Orange Olive-Oil Cake | Torta D’olio D’oliva
Don’t let a simple cake like this fool you. It delivers spectacular flavor, uses wholesome ingredients, and easy to mix by hand. If you attend to…
breakfast/ foundation recipe/ Fry/ my favorites/ Salad/ Simmer/ Toss/ Yeast bread/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Sabich | Stuffed into Pita
I received two books as gifts recently: Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Israeli Soul by Michael Solomonov. These are exceptional cookbooks with a strong sense of…
Chocolate/ dessert/ Fruit/ my favorites/ Nut/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Chocolate, Banana and Pecan Cookies | The Ultimate
I don’t buy cookies. And for that matter, I don’t buy breads, salad dressings, nor processed foods. As long as there are flour, butter, sugar, wild…
Let’s talk science. What’s the difference between sorbet and ice cream? It’s the greater amount of fat, that gives ice cream the richness and creaminess, as…
This pistachio and raspberry financier is the sequel following the success of Dorie’s matcha financier from her book Baking Chez Moi. The story goes that these…
Berry/ Chad Robertson/ dessert/ enriched dough/ Levain & Yeast Hybrid/ my favorites
Brioche Sweet Pizza with Berries
Three little words — brioche, sweet, pizza, capture the exquisite interplay among bread, pastry and pizza. Brioche begins as basic bread dough. Incorporate a good amount…
easy everyday/ Fish/ kitchen hack/ Meat/ my favorites/ Poultry/ Ruth Reichl/ Salad/ Seafood/ Side/ spring/ summer
Salsa Verde | Comfort Foods with Ruth Reichl
I’m bringing salsa verde this week. Let me explain. I’ve had a phenomenal six months cooking along with Ruth Reichl at IHCC. To me, the comfort…
classics/ dessert/ enriched dough/ Fruit/ my favorites/ Ruth Reichl/ year round
Apple and Calvados Galette |The Gourmet Cookbook
The varieties of apple in the store are tempting. Ginger Gold, Gala, Ruby Frost, Honeycrisp… It’s impossible to walk past the piles of apples without catching…
Berry/ breakfast/ classics/ easy everyday/ Fruit/ my favorites/ Pantry essentials/ quick cake/ Ruth Reichl/ straight dough
Fannie Farmer’s Classic Yeast-Raised Waffles
The 1896 original Fannie Farmer’s classic yeast-raised waffles are finding their ways on this blog via Marion Cunningham’s completely updated cookbook published in 1979. I don’t…
A List of Eric Ripert’s Recipes Listing all of Eric Ripert’s recipes I’ve explored in the last six months (April to September 2018) in one summary…
The cod Basquaise is another fish recipe from Eric Ripert. He is the chef and owner of Le Bernardin, the three-Michelin-star seafood restaurant in New York City.…
easy everyday/ Fruit/ my favorites/ pastry/ puff pastry/ year round/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Apricot and Thyme Galettes
The apricot season is short. When it’s in season, apricot is one of my favorite fruits for baking. However, the canned or preserved version can be…
Dairy free/ Fish/ Gluten free/ my favorites/ Pantry essentials/ Simmer/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Spiced Cod With Spinach and Chickpea Stew
“Yet another way to eat your spinach” is the title of this Yotam Ottolenghi’s article in the New York Times. Then he expands on how a…
Dairy free/ Gluten free/ Levain bread/ Low fat/ my favorites/ Soup
Emerald Corn Chowder With Roasted Tomatillos | Rick Bayless
Emerald corn chowder sounds exotic. Roasted tomatillos and poblano are titillating choices. Combining emerald corn chowder with roasted tomatillo and poblano seems exciting and worthy of…
Berry/ classics/ Cream/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ foundation recipe/ Fruit/ my favorites
Classic Fruit Tart | Pâte Sablée Dough Updated
A classic fruit tart is irresistible. It would stop me on my track wherever and whenever I see one. Fresh berries, cherry, peach, pear or…