Bagna Cauda Dressing
A long time ago I lived in Brooklyn. This Brooklyn sort of felt like Pittsburgh (I think, having never been to Pittsburgh). I lived…
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Blackberry Jam-Filled Doughnut Bundt Cake
“Did you ever suck the jelly out of a jelly doughnut and then fill it with chocolate swirl ice cream?” Fatso, written by Anne…
Egg Noodles with Fontina and Mushrooms
Sixty degrees, the twenty-third of October in Rockland, Maine, at noon. Fewer than a dozen very young children and their parents on the playground…
Steak Frites with Roquefort Butter
To get to work in New York you commute underground, emerge someplace sooty and windswept and walk briskly to your place of employment, stopping…
How to Make Butter
I’ve always wished I’d lived in another era. Which is typical, I realize now, and also kind of a cop-out. Like, I would have…
Gooey Butter Cake
Want to make a house feel like home? Bake this cozy butter cake on the afternoon of your second day, when you are surrounded…
Bubba Gump Shrimp Company Copycat “Shrimpin’ Dippin’ Broth”
Cancun has become synonymous with debauchery. Spring break. College students out of control. MTV. HPV. THC. The Id and the dangerous ocean. Drunkenness, wantonness,…
Skillet-Browned Spaetzle
Once upon a time in the Catskills, I ate spaetzle and sauerbraten on New Year’s Day. We’d taken a bus from the city, in…
Croque Madame
There once was a bar on New York’s Lower East Side where we used to go when we were young. Let’s call that place,…
Linguine with Mussels and Clams
A wader-wearing fisherman steps out smiling from the refrigerated barnlike structure, where haddock and other local fishes are getting sorted and processed, cleaned, scaled and filleted,…
Savory Monkey Bread
Monkey bread is a celebration of life, liberty, equality, fraternity, Pilgrims, Native Americans, the pursuit of happiness, shoes with oversized buckles, burning the witch,…
How to Make Butter Chicken
When someone mentions “classic Maine cuisine,” my mind immediately leaps to big, steaming copper pots overflowing with creamy saag paneer, yogurt-marinated blackened chicken skewers…
Schnitzel-wich With Garlic Butter And Spicy Relish
Because I seem to have taken on a subconscious quest to become some sort of 300 pound guy, today I drizzled hot butter onto…
Applesauce Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
Baking is the art of measure, the science of cookery magic, a delicious alchemy, and proof that precision can be liberating. I am learning…