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A shot of chile-infused liqueur dropped in an IPA Firewater boilermaker Photograph by A. Schloss |

Sunday, December 29, 2013
Firewater Boilermaker
Friday, December 27, 2013
Oven-Dried Tomatoes
When its the middle of winter and your recipe calls for tomatoes you can always used canned, or you can have something far superior simply by turning on the oven.
Tomatoes are full of flavor. They're also full of water. Getting rid of the water concentrates and intensifies the flavor, but most of the time roasted tomatoes collapse by the time full flavor develops—think fresh tomatoes cooking down into sauce. A treat, to be sure, but a different way of experiencing the tomato.
Friday, December 20, 2013
Good Ol' Pot Roast
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Demi-Glace Pot Roast with Pot Roasted Vegetables and Blanched Beans Photograph by A. Schloss |
And in Cooking Slow there's a recipe for Hanger Steak Slow Baked in its own Demi-Glace, page 65, which Bonnie S. Benwick calls a "succulent masterpiece" in her review in the Washington Post. It is a phenomenal way of getting true restaurant-chef results with hardly any work, and its magic is easily converted into a pot roast. All I did was switch from hanger steak to chuck roast and cut the vegetables in bigger chunks. Bigger pieces means more cooking time to extract the same amount of flavor so I upped the oven sojourn from 6 to 8 hours.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Mia Culpa Pudding
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Rice Pudding Set-up Rinsed rice and raisins in center; counter-clockwise from 6 o' clock - milk, sugar, cinnamon, eggs, salt, vanilla Photograph by A. Schloss |
Among cookbook writers Julia Child is known less for dropping chickens than by her rule for judging cookbooks -"A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe." So when one of my most devoted recipe followers (and the designer of this blog) , Denise Avayou, called me last week to tell me that the recipe for Slow-Baked Rice Pudding (page 195) in Cooking Slow didn't work for her, my heart sank. Even though Denise was sure that something was wrong with her oven and that the problem was because she used 2% milk rather than the whole milk the recipe called for, anyone who knows me would not be surprised by my self- deprecating reaction. I take my recipe writing responsibilities seriously and my Mom had raised me on the mantra, "As long as you feel guilty that's all that matters," so involuntary heart-sickness is mother's milk to me.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Quaffable Gifting
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(From Left to Right) Double Raspberry, Black Pepper Vodka, Ruut, Lemon-Lime, Blueberry Cinnamon Photograph by A. Schloss |
Of all the potable gifts that
one can brew at home, liqueurs are the fastest, easiest, and most versatile. Liqueurs
are liquors (distilled spirits) that have been flavored with sugar, and aromatics,
like herbs, spices, nuts, flowers, fruit, seeds, vegetables, roots, and/or
bark.
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Lemon Drop Photograph by A. Schloss |
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