Category Archives: Guest Post

Bread Pudding

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: January 30, 2013

 

Cinnamon raisin bread pudding

Still recovering from 10 days of Key West fine food and postprandial debauchery, I’m giving my site over today to my friend Stephanie Stiavetti (@sstiavetti), who writes The Culinary Life blog, and whose first book, Melt, will be published next year by Little, Brown (a fine book to which I happily contributed the introduction). I'll be back on Friday with a Key West–inspired cocktail to combat the winter grays. Take it away, Steph, and thanks for keeping it simple and discussing a critical cooking technique!—M.R. by Stephanie Stiavetti Bread pudding needn't be complicated. At its core, custard is a straightforward dish consisting of cream and egg yolks. For a sweet custard you add sugar, alongside tiny, fragrant vanilla beans (usually), and that's about as fussy as it gets. The best bread puddings ...

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Cookies for the Holidays!

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: December 17, 2012

Holiday cookie time. Photo by Emilia Juocys

I'm a cook, not a baker. There are few professional chefs who are both. Cory Barrett, formerly of Cleveland's Lola, was its pastry chef and then its chef de cuisine, very rare. Michel Richard is an anomaly in being both a world-class pastry chef and a dazzlingly ingenious savory cook, as his book Happy in the Kitchen shows (I highly recommend this book, by the way, and his restaurants). That savory cooks and pastry cooks are different creatures is also why writing the new best-selling Thomas Keller book, the Bouchon Bakery Cookbook—stunning in its recipes, photography, and design—was both so hard and so exciting for me, as I tried to understand the whys behind the craft of baking and pastries and write about them through executive ...

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Guest Post:
Cinnamon Bread from The Culinary Life

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: December 10, 2012

 

Freshly baked cinnamon bread is a great baking item to add to the holidays.
Photo by Stephanie J. Stiavetti

I'm giving my site over today to my friend Stephanie Stiavetti, who writes The Culinary Life blog, and whose first book, Melt, will be published next year by Little, Brown. Here she focuses on cinnamon at a time of the year when the smell of cinnamon announces the celebratory nature of the month and soothes stress. It's true, the smell of cinnamon bread baking makes for a better mood around the house. A note about yeast and temperatures—many novice bakers get in a fluff about it. Fresh? Active dry? Instant dry? What's it all mean? I'm not going to go into it because it's boring—use dry, it doesn't matter what kind (I recommend Red Star or SAF, same ...

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Käsespätzle

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: October 22, 2012

Käsespätzle/ photo by Stephanie Stiavetti

While I'm at Pigstock, an all-around Pig Love event in Traverse City, MI, here's a guest post from my friend and fellow writer Stephanie Stiavetti; I'm not going to say what her upcoming cookbook is about but here's a hint. —M.R. By Stephanie J. Stiavetti Käsespätzle Many folks believe that macaroni and cheese is a purely American dish. They're surprised when I tell them that most European countries not only have their own versions, but that some of theses recipes appeared on the culinary map long before macaroni and cheese became popular in the United States. The Italians, stalwarts of all things cheese- and pasta-related, combined these two ingredients into many a hearty dish, such as baked ziti and cacio e pepe. The Swedes have their makaronipudding, a simple, stoic casserole of ...

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Guest Post: Rob Levitt

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: September 26, 2012

 

Rob Levitt of Chicago's The Butcher & Larder. Photo by Jill Wait.

When I published Ruhlman's Twenty last year, Rob Levitt, proprietor of an old-school butcher shop in the great meat city of Chicago called The Butcher & Larder, invited me to talk about technique while we made sausage and soup. It was so much fun and Rob, who happened also to be a graduate of the Chef Pardus school of kick-your-ass, was such a delight, I'm doing another Chicago event with him on Friday, October 19, at Floriole Cafe and Bakery, with my partner in Salumi, Brian Polcyn. (Details here on Rob's site.) It's a great pleasure to see people such as Rob and his wife, Allie, doing things the right and the good way. Making use of the whole animal, for instance ...

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