Listen to the Daily Dish Pork has come a long way in recent years, so don’t look to your grandmother’s old cookbook for a recipe. If you do, chances are you will overcook the meat ending up with tough chops. These days most people like to cook pork to a medium pink – I like [...]
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Listen to the Daily Dish We tend to think of seasonal ingredients as the good stuff that we patiently wait for all year as it slowly rises from the soil and that is certainly true, but a summer staple I look forward to all year comes from the ocean—I’m talking about striped bass. Yield: 4 [...]
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Listen to the Daily Dish Getting bored with your green beans? Add some creamy Gorgonzola cheese to add a gorgeous complexity. Let’s face it, green beans are delicious, but they can get boring. So let’s give them some new life by melting a little Gorgonzola into the beans for a spicy appetizer or a side [...]
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Listen to the Daily Dish Grape Nut Pudding is an old New England recipe that I get a lot of phone calls and e-mails about, but had never tried. But curiosity got the best of me recently and I poked into the archives and decided to give it a shot. Yield: 6 servings Ingredients 1 [...]
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Listen to the Daily Dish I confess, I am not a morning person, but making pancakes is worth getting up for. My nephew James and I have also discovered that these will taste much better if you have not showered and are still in your pajamas—really. This is a pretty standard pancake recipe. In the [...]
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Listen to the Daily Dish Do you want a delicious pasta without the headaches of cooking the sauce? Directions While your spaghetti is cooking—cut about one pound of cherry tomatoes in half, place in a large bowl, sprinkle with coarse sea salt and set aside. Then make your pesto. Put in a blender ½ cup [...]
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Listen to the Daily Dish You may think that pasta is only as flavorful as its sauce, but that would mean you haven’t tried Japanese soba noodles. Made of buckwheat, they have an earthy, nutty flavor that evokes the countryside, which is why I’ve paired them with an Italian ingredient that has the same effect, [...]
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Listen to the Daily Dish In addition to being a bona fide rocket scientist, my dad is a great cook (and a great dad). He’s tackled everything from baklava to tempura to grilled oysters to making waffles with his grandchildren. This is my favorite from his considerable repertoire. I never wanted to learn how to [...]
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Listen to the Daily Dish In the kitchen I like the basics so I don’t use a lot of gadets, but here are a few I would recommend to any amateur or professional for their kitchen: 1. For pasta I always use a simpe, inexpensive chicken wire spider skimmer on a bamboo handle to lift [...]
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