Who remembers Cole Porter's classic Let's Fall in Love? The one that starts "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it… " And somewhere around verse three it goes "Why ask if shad do it? Waiter bring me shad roe!" Plenty more peeps have heard the song than enjoyed a plate [...]
East Hampton, Main Dishes, Sullivan Family Recipes
I've got a confession. I find many of the classic stewed meats in broth recipes rather lack-luster, even insipid. Apart from the odiferous hot mess of a corned beef and cabbage boil up, I find France's Pot-au-Feu, Italy's Bollito Misto, even Japan's Shabu Shabu… meh. Who'd a thunk the Scots would be the ones to [...]
Johnnycakes are traditionally made with cornmeal. But no cornmeal here; these non-traditional beauties come from a smooth purée of carrots giving them their bold orange color. Too thick to be a crêpe (even though they started life from a Jacques Pépin crêpe recipe) and too special to be a pancake, Johnnycakes they shall be. Now I suppose you could slather these [...]
Fish and Seafood, Main Dishes, Sauces, Sullivan Family Recipes
Corned beef is nice and all, especially served steaming hot with slippery cabbage and soft potatoes and carrots, a smear of sharp Colman's mustard to cut the fat. That said, Ireland's patron saint deserves to be celebrated with something finer. St. Patrick drove out the snakes! He spoke Latin! His feast day is a holy [...]
Everyone and son frère has a tale about their first time in France when they tasted (fill in the blank) for the first time. Cue the deep swoon, the rapturous smile and fluttering eyelids that accompany the revelation that every meal before that moment had been a complete and utter sham. An ethereally fragrant Parisian [...]
Kitchen Gadgets, Main Dishes, Sauces
I've always regarded fondue as the most glamorous dish in the whole wide world. Growing up beef fondue was the star of my birthday dinners, the one night a year mom would fire up our two big fondue pots. Rounding out these annual evenings of elegance was the grand finale of strawberry shortcake. In January. Which meant frozen strawberries out of an oval paper and metal [...]
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