The Borzoi Cooks wowed me with their preparation of James Beard’s oatmeal bread last week and inspired me to look into making bread, too. Fortunately, the internets is full of excellent bread ideas. I tried to stick to the more breadlike recipes, both savory and sweet, but it wasn’t long before my eyes drifted into the cake-bread hybrids. Here are some of the best recipes I encountered from our ever-astonishing blogroll (scroll down to check out the roster in our right sidebar).
More >Bread’s reached its zeitgeist moment among the Knopf cooks–it’s a cost saver, a cooking challenge, and there’s nothing’s better on a cold winter day than the aroma of fresh bread trickling from your oven. Lucky for us, we have the master of bread baking to turn to, James Beard, and we tackled his oatmeal recipe, a perfectly delicious challenge.
More >Valentine’s Day is a holiday fraught with tension: why do I have to buy yet another gift for my significant other? What am I supposed to do if I don’t have a significant other? Just how many red velvet cupcakes can I eat? Oh, scratch that last question—it’s questions like those that make me love Valentine’s Day.
More >Last week, I tantalized all of you with pictures of my coworkers’ bittersweet chocolate mousse. Now I’m going to share the recipe from Joël Robuchon’s The Complete Robuchon.
More >Thank goodness for the approach of Valentine’s Day: the drugstore aisles are crammed with chocolates. Boxes of bon bons, pudding, pop-tarts—I will eat chocolate in all forms, but none is quite so decadent as chocolate mousse. In honor of good St. Valentine, my co-workers and I whipped up a bowl of mousse au chocolat amer (bittersweet chocolate mousse) from Joël Robuchon’s definitive cookbook of French home cooking.
More >Judith Jones, author of The Pleasures of Cooking for One, will be a guest this coming Tuesday, January 12th, on The Martha Stewart Show. She will be discussing and preparing a recipe from her cookbook. And lucky for the members of the studio audience: there will be a giveaway.
For those of us who’ll have to watch from home, do your homework and read Judith Jones’s blog.
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I love the holiday season, not least because it holds the promise of starting new traditions. So, when a close friend suggested co-hosting a dinner party to celebrate Hanukkah, I jumped at the chance. It seemed only fitting that our first annual Hanukkah dinner should be a feast that would make Joan Nathan, the authority on Jewish cooking, proud. So, armed with a copy of her Jewish Holiday Cookbook (and a 5 pound piece of meat), we set to work.
More >Thank you to all who participated in our Cherries in Winter Sweepstakes! It was a great success, with our winner’s contribution after the jump!
More >Coming up with the perfect gift for the foodie on your list is hard. So we’ve made it easier! Click through for The Foodie’s Holiday Gift Checklist.
More >If the number of holiday party invitations in my inbox is any invitation, ’tis the season for some quick, but tasty desserts. I may be trotting out the same holiday dress I wore last year, but no one’s going to notice if I arrive with a platter of cookies. However, keep in mind that not every cooking recipe will do this season. As Recipe Girl writes, “Holiday cookies should look like holiday cookies!” So get thee to the sprinkle aisle, because I’ve got some cookie recipes for you.
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