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Paczki Day
Also posted in Article, Desserts, Ethnic Cuisine, Food Adventure, Food Culture, Video Tagged CBS, Chicago, paczki, Polish, Steve Dolinsky, video Leave a comment
Christmas Yorkshire Pudding
Marlene Newell, who runs an excellent cooking forum called CooksKorner tested all the recipes for Ratio and Twenty. She's a friend and excellent cook. One of her passions is Yorkshire pudding, in effect, a savory popover, which is how she bakes them (as above). I, too, make roast beef for Christmans dinner and Yorkshire pudding. I believe it's critical to cook it in beef fat, for flavor, so I buy and render suet for this purpose. I've also poured the batter straight into the roasting pan which works great so long as there are no burnt bits (the pudding ripples and puffs like crazy; I then cut it to serve). I imagine the roasting pan method was how it would have originated, the batter cooking in ...
Also posted in baking, Beef, Books, Food Writing, From Scratch, Guest Post, Holiday, Memories, Recipes Tagged canada, Cooks Korner, Marlene Newell, recipe, roasts, Yorkshire Pudding 19 Comments
Winter Treats
Also posted in Appetizers, Article, baking, beverages, Desserts, Recipes Tagged A to Z, Guardian UK, holiday, recipes, traditions, winter foods Leave a comment
Brioche Revisited
Michael has been traveling all around the United States promoting his new book Ruhlman's Twenty. Yesterday he had a long day in New York City where he appeared on the Martha Stewart Show. Michael sends his apologies, as he is nursing a wicked hangover. He returns to Cleveland today and will be appearing at the Fabulous Food Show this weekend. Please enjoy this favorite post of mine on how to Make Brioche. This post reminds you to begin preparing for the holiday season, which is quickly approaching. Original Post Date: November 30, 2010 December is the month for making brioche at home. It's the great holiday bread. Though calling it bread doesn't do it justice. Good brioche is like a cross between bread and cake. Hell, it's really ...
Also posted in Books, Bread App, Breakfast, From Scratch, Recipes Tagged bread baking, brioche, Martha Stewart, New York City, recipe, twenty Comments closed
Gluten-Free Brioche
I accidentally upgraded my wordpress account and it wreaked havoc. Lost all kinds of posts and it broke countless links. F@$#! One of the many post sent off unanchored into the ethernet was this guest post (and photo) by freelance writer Stephanie Stiavetti. As with her gluten-free fried chicken, enough people have asked about it that I'm reposting it again. I've really only recently become aware of what a rotten disease celiac is, especially for people who love to cook, and to eat, and to write about it. This post with Carol Blymire (alineaathome.com) describes the situation, um, vividly (the post also has glutenfreegirl's awesome pizza dough recipe). It's also impressed on me how important it is for chefs to understand celiac disease and gluten-free cooking. Stephanie Stiavetti, a social media consultant and reluctant techie ...
Also posted in baking, Gluten-free, Guest Post, Recipes Tagged bread, brioche, gluten-free bread recipes, how to make brioche, recipe, Stephanie Stiavetti, wasabimon Comments closed
Update: Bouchon Bakery Cookbook
I've spent nearly a week in the Napa Valley working on the Bouchon Bakery Cookbook. This will be the fifth book in a series led by Thomas Keller that began with The French Laundry Cookbook which is one of the best chef-restaurant cookbooks ever (do we need full dislosure here?). Forget the words I write—these books are truly fine and costly productions, and I think it's important for people to know what goes into books of this magnitude, because so often people don't know. A team of people, from the many at Artisan, an imprint of Workman Publishing, who make beautiful books, to the commis at the restaurants who scale out the mise en place for the recipes for the chefs, and all those in between, including myself. In 1997, I flew out here to have dinner at the French Laundry and meet Chef Keller, ...
Also posted in baking, Books, chefs, Desserts, Notes, Pastry, Restaurants, Technique Tagged bouchon bakery, bouchon photographs, cookbook, Matthew McDonald, Sebastien Rouxel, thomas keller Comments closed
What makes a great cooking app?
In the headlong rush to turn everything into an app, we have created amazing apps (shazam is truly amazing) and ridiculous apps (won't name names).
The publishers of cookbooks and chefs are among them. Some publishers (S&S, my last publisher) are not entering the market; smaller more agile ones are (Chronicle, by chance publishing my next book).
But what makes a valuable app? Since teaming up with Will Turnage, VP of technology and invention for the digital media firm R/GA, I’ve been creating apps for the iPad and smartphones and so have been thinking about how to proceed. They take a lot of time and work and so far, return on investment is spotty (except in the games department).
My goal is to create only ...
Also posted in baking, Bread App, Kitchen Technology, Ratios, Recipes, Technique Tagged apple, bread baking basics, droid, iPhone bread app, itouch bread app, ratio, sideways.com, Will Turnage Comments closed
Eggs Benedict From Scratch
This eggs Benedict post has new recipes for Hollandaise sauce and sourdough English muffins but I have to begin with the angry comment on my Tomato Sauce post. A reader was clearly miffed that I would suggest that anyone who works make their own tomato sauce. Well, I do suggest this, but I hasten to add that it's not homemade or nothing. I've bought jarred tomato sauce when I knew I wouldn't have time to make it myself. It's more expensive, doesn't taste as good and isn't as much fun, but there are only so many hours in the day, and someday there's just no time.
My second response to Angry Reader is that he should do this: ...
Also posted in Breakfast, Brines, Challenege, Charcutepalooza, Charcuterie, From Scratch, Recipes, sauce Tagged canadian bacon, complete eggs benedict recipe, english muffin recipe, english muffins, from scratch challenge, Hollandaise sauce, how to make eggs benedict from scratch, poached egg, ruhlman makes eggs benedict from scratch Comments closed
No-Knead Bread: A Convert’s Story
I recently posted on twitter that I don't believe in no-knead bread, the phenomenon started by Jim Lahey—chef of the excellent pizza restaurant Co., and owner of Sullivan St. Bakery in Manhattan, and author of My Bread—when Mark Bittman wrote about Lahey's no-knead technique in The New York Times. (Here's Lahey's no-knead bread recipe.)
After tweeting, I almost immediately received an email from Nick Fox, a New York Times Dining editor, perplexed. The next day Bittman DM'd me on Twitter asking why? Jeff Hertzberg, an author of the popular Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, RT'd my comment, adding "Say it ain't so!" Not long after that the eminent author and Vogue columnist, Jeffrey Steingarten, in ...
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