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Made on Thanskgiving 2013. A recipe to be treasured. From Bon Appetit, Nov. 2013. Sweet Potatoes with Maple and Bourbon 1 1/2 cups strong hot coffee 9 tablespoons pure maple syrup 3 tablespoons (packed) dark brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon instant […]
Dry-brining a turkey is the way to go. Russ Parsons knows it, we know it, the American people know it. Salt with sage and bay leaves is an addition you may wish to make. Sage-bay leaf salt recipe here. It […]
Over at Small Bites, we have embarked upon the Manhattan Project! If you follow Small Bites on Instagram (link to Small Bites Instagram here), or Twitter (@small_bites) you may have noticed a certain hashtag flying around some evenings: #manhattanproject. For the […]
A stuffing adapted from the new Suzanne Goin cookbook, “The AOC Cookbook.” We served it as recommended in the book, with grilled pork chops and poached cherries. Make cornbread. I like this recipe here. Take 6 cups of it and […]
A simple hors d’oevure, fabulous spread over goat cheese on baguettes. And delicious the next day in omelettes. An easy, set-it-and-forget-it recipe from the farm’s friend Peggy, who recommends leaving the skins on and seeds in for a nice country-style […]
Here’s another pasta recipe — pork ragu — from the Sara Jenkins school of sofrito. The mirepoix of onion, carrot, celery, garlic and spices is pureed and sauted to concentrate the flavors. It makes for an impressive ragu with a […]
“Bringing Up Bebe,” a book about French childrearing by an American living abroad, has its controversies. Is Pamela Druckerman, the author, making sweeping statements about a culture she barely understands? Or is she a keen observer of a phenomenon that […]
We were very inspired by the March issue of Bon Appetit: the pasta issue. This is one of two recipes we decided to make by Sara Jenkins, whom SCF fans might remember from such posts as Big Day of Fun: […]
We discovered that Samantha loves meatballs, and they’re a great way to get a few extra dark greens into her diet! Greg was inspired by Giada’s recipe for mini turkey meatballs and added spinach. We made a bunch extra to […]
From Bon Appetit, a terrific vegetarian soup for a cold winter’s night. Chickpea Soup with Broccoli 1 1/2 cups dried chickpeas, or 3 15-ounce cans chickpeas, rinsed 3 tablespoons olive oil 2 large onions, coarsely chopped2 4 garlic cloves, chopped […]
Dorie Greenspan’s Baking book is a real treasure. Take this little gem, for instance, which gets its name from her friend Ingela’s mother, who used to “claim that you could start making it when you saw guests coming up the […]
Inspired by food52, we put a sugar cube and some bitters in a glass and splashed in a bit of water. We muddled and to that added two ounces of rye. A nice orange twist and there you have it. […]
A recipe for roasted cauliflower. Not that you really need one. But I liked the addition of onion and Parmesan. And the sprinkling of thyme is nice. So yeah, maybe you do need a recipe. Thanks again, Bon Appetit. Preheat […]
Who said we won’t learn? We discovered a few recipes using the sofrito method of imparting deep, rich, flavor to our dishes and we’re using it in our own cooking now. Greg made a sofrito by pureeing and sautéing onion, […]
We love this soup so much that we’ve try new recipes for it all the time. This latest comes from Cooks Country, the colorful, casual (and a slightly cheesy) sister to Cooks Illustrated. It’s very straightforward, and quite delicious. Give […]
Greg has another winner on his hands. Alton Brown’s Red Beans & Rice, made with homemade pickled pork. I’ve never had a better version. The recipe, from the Food Network, after the jump. Related posts: Recipe: Cilantro Rice with Peas […]
Sopa de Lima is a dish from Yucatan, where limes are plentiful. We crossed a recipe for it from Fine Cooking’s terrific new book, “Make It Tonight” with the idea of tortilla soup and came up with this dish. You […]
This cornbread recipe by Ruth Reichl was super-easy and came out great the very first time. I’m rewriting it to double it, though, because hers is more for corn muffins and I am just never going to make corn muffins. […]
I’ve know about the web site Food52 for quite a while, but I hadn’t really explored it much. Shame! Since I started reading it more regularly, I’ve found tons of recipes I want to make, including Torrisi’s Spicy Sauce, Walnut-Sage […]
After our stuffed acorn squash didn’t make the cut for Christmas dinner, we decided to go a different route. I remembered a piece a while back in Bon Appetit on Dan Barbers’ various vegetable steaks, especially the Cauliflower Steaks. When […]
You don’t have to pull the kale off the stems for this recipe, but it makes for a nicer presentation when you’re doing a fancy dinner. Bonus: It’s vegan! Recipe, apres jump. Related posts: Pine Nut Butter Recipe Recipe: Cilantro […]
This recipe is festive, but easy, easy, easy. It can be done the day before, then reheated. Maple and brown sugar flavor the squash during the roasting and chestnuts make a fine garnish. You won’t even miss the butter. Related […]
Who knew? We toasted a bunch of pine nuts and tossed them in the food processor with a bit of oil and a pinch of salt. Delicious! Nutty, earthy and perfect as a schmear under our kale salad. Thanks, Cooking […]
As I think I mentioned, we’re doing a vegan Christmas supper this year. We planned ahead by making and freezing a vegetable stock (hey, you’re always going to need stock, right?), but in the end, we had to make it […]
To start our Very Vegan Christmas Dinner, we served a winter salad with arugula from Satur Farms and Red Cooper grapefruit from the Valley. We did almonds for crunch and dates because they looked great. The dressing was made with […]
I’ve become expert at making chicken stock. I’ll do two kinds: the complicated sort where you save up all your bones and caracasses for months and then make an enormous batch of stock, even straining it through cheesecloth and clarifying […]
For our vegetable contribution to Thanksgiving, we harvested our own Brussels sprouts. We knew oven space would be at a premium just before Thanksgiving, so we figured we would make a salad that could be served room temperature. This one, […]
We’ve had lots of stuffing recipes over the years: cornbread stuffing, oyster stuffing, sage stuffing cooked inside the turkey. This year, we decided to look for a very simple, straightforward recipe. Imagine our surprise when we found, on Epicurious, a […]
A Thanskgiving turkey gravy recipe from Robert Horton of An American Bistro in Tuckahoe, which was published Nov. 26, 2003 in The Journal News. We’ve been using it ever since! Related posts: Jane Brody’s Turkey Carcass Soup Beef and Barley […]
Maybe it was having the Korean chicken the weekend before? But I got some kind of bug, and we decided to have another bo ssam dinner. (The first one was in February, and it was really delicious.) Two big pork […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
