You just can’t beat Italian for Valentine’s Day. The Sunday Gravy was phenomenal—none of us could believe that so much flavor came out of so few ingredients (basically a couple of kinds of meat, garlic, and Italian herbs added to tomato purée). The semolina gnocchi (aka Roman gnocchi) were really interesting—kind of like rustic gougères.Continue reading “ESC #10: Valentine’s Edition”
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ESC #9: Burns Night
So in case you don’t happen to be Scottish (or partly so), I’ll bring you up to speed: the poet Robert Burns’s birthday is January 25th and is usually celebrated among Scots with the eating of haggis (if you don’t know what all that ent[r]ails, it’s probably best not to Google it) and the drinkingContinue reading “ESC #9: Burns Night”
Experimental Supper Club #8
The clam fritters were a disappointment, but the lamb ragu was good and everyone loved the cocktail, the carrot salad, and the rice pudding, which is a family recipe from Rene Redzepi’s partner….
Experimental Supper Club #7: Birthday Edition
I hand-wrote these menus on postcards and then immediately recycled them like a genius…so I don’t have any pictures for you. But the centerpiece was David Chang’s famous Momofuku Bo Ssam, which came out very well. Everyone went nuts for Smitten Kitchen’s Miso Black Sesame poporn, which we had as an appetizer with somewhat forgettableContinue reading “Experimental Supper Club #7: Birthday Edition”
Experimental Supper Club #6
The highlights of this one were definitely the lamb burgers and the zhug. The tart was a show-stopper but way too sweet for me: you can’t control the sugar in the white chocolate, but if I made it again, I would cut the sugar in the meringue by half.
Experimental Supper Club #5
As I’ve written before, I use Paprika to organize my recipes, and one of the category labels I use is “Try” for recipes I haven’t made yet. But at some point, I started saving recipes to this category faster than I made them, and it got completely out of control–350 recipes or something like that.Continue reading “Experimental Supper Club #5”
The Rookery 