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Food.comThis recipe is from Shirley Lomax Brooks's book Argentina Cooks! Steak is at its best when it is well marbled. Cuts such as beef filet, New York steak, porterhouse, or T-bone are recommended. Prep time includes time for marinating.Food.comEasy! a family and guest-pleaser. A better-than average-chocolate is a must! Try adding in-season sliced strawberries over bottom layer after spreading pudding filling! So yummy! Cooking time does not include refrigerated time. Note: Several reviewers have commented on glaze "setting up" fast. Best to assemble while cake layers are at room temp. Added 07.21.12 "Why is it called a pie?", and "Why the name 'Boston'?". Why "pie" instead of "cake?", probably because colonists baked cakes in pie tins as they did not own cake pans. As far as the name Boston Cream Pie, story began when a New York newspaper in 1855 published a recipe for a 'Pudding Pie Cake'. Recipe was similar to the Boston Cream Pie recipe of today except that it had a powdered sugar topping. In Boston, Harvey D. Parker opened a restaurant called Parker House Restaurant. On the menu was a 'Parker House Cake Pie", which has evolved into Boston Cream Pie. :)Food.comThese are well-seasoned skewers of chicken or lamb that are traditional upstate New York fare. This must be started at least 3 days in advance but don't let that scare you off, it's well worth the wait. I got this recipe from the busy cooks website 7 years ago. I can't find it on their site anymore so I'm posting it here in case I ever lose my copy. We like to eat ours with greek salad all wrapped up together in a grilled pita. Prep time does not include marinating time. This is very very good. Enjoy!Food52This is hands down the best cheesecake I've ever had. Every person I've served it to has fallen in love with it and I hope you will too! I had it for the first time when I was in San Sebastian. It was a life-changing experience - after never having anything but New York style cheesecake, with the occasional mascarpone cheesecake, I had no idea there could be more, texturally and flavor wise. I set out to recreate that recipe when I got home. This is closely modeled on several recipes that I've seen online. But the part no one seems to get right is the cook time - it's fast! You want it to be gooey and custardy in the middle and like a lightly set cake by the edge.Food and WineI chased the flavor of a proper Tuscan ribollita for 17 years until I ate the genuine article again, finally, at Leonti, chef-owner Adam Leonti’s swanky new Italian restaurant in New York City. Leonti’s deeply savory version of the Tuscan bread and bean porridge was even better than the one I remember from a small hillside restaurant in Siena, Italy, so many years ago. (And that ribollita, which I ate on my first visit to Italy, was so perfect and nourishing that it made me forget for an hour that I was wearing my girlfriend’s puffy sweater because the airline had lost my luggage.) Leonti learned how to make ribollita from a restaurateur from Lunigiana, a three-hour drive northwest of Siena, paying close attention to the porridge’s humble elements: grassy-green, peppery olive oil; earthy, rustic bread; small, thin-skinned white beans; and most importantly, sofrito, the finely chopped, slow-cooked mixture of carrots, onions, and celery that gives ribollita its extraordinary flavor.At Leonti, sofrito is the foundation of ragù, and of the hot broth served to guests upon arrival—and it’s such a crucial ingredient that his cooks make about 75 quarts of it a week. Leonti used to laboriously chop his sofrito with a knife by using a rocking motion. “Then I watched Eat Drink Man Woman, and the best part is the beginning, with the Chinese chef chopping with big cleavers,” he recalls. “I thought, ‘That’s the move!’”So, Leonti bought some large cleavers in Chinatown and a wood butcher block and set up a sofrito station in the kitchen, where today his cooks rhythmically chop and break down the whole vegetables into rubble using the same kind of chopping technique I saw a barbecue cook use at Skylight Inn BBQ in Ayden, North Carolina, to break down the meat of whole smoked hogs into a fine mince. The size of the mince matters—the smaller the better—Leonti says, because you’re multiplying the surface area of the vegetables by a thousand-fold. More surface area to caramelize in the pan equals more flavor.When I made Leonti’s ribollita at home in my Birmingham, Alabama, kitchen, I tried the double-cleaver technique but quickly switched to an efficient, two-handledmezzaluna after too many stray bits of onion, carrot, and celery fell to the kitchen floor. I followed his advice and sweated the vegetables in olive oil in a Dutch oven, slowly cooking the mixture, stirring almost as often with a wooden spoon as you would with a roux. After 30 or so minutes, I turned up the heat until I heard that rapid sizzle, signaling that the sofrito was beginning to caramelize, creating a massive amount of flavor. When you build flavor from the bottom of the pot like this, the flavors continue to transform, concentrating even further when you add then reduce aromatic liquids— in Leonti’s case, adding crushed tomatoes and white wine, which cook down to a tomato-wine-sofrito jam full of umami. That flavor base then gets rehydrated with water, then cooks down again with the kale, potatoes, and bread—the latter adds tangy flavor and disintegrates into the soup to add texture. Finally, cooked beans—both whole and pureed—go in, thickening and tightening the soup into a porridge.Leonti serves many of his courses in gold-rimmed Richard Ginori china to frame his food in the Tuscan context. His food is big city fine dining meets cucina povera, the Italian cooking tradition born of necessity that elevates humble ingredients into dishes fit for a king. I asked him about the restaurant’s tightrope walk between high and low. “What is luxury? Luxury to a few is foie gras or truffles,” he says. “But the ultimate luxury is time and space. Those are the two most expensive things on the planet. Ribollita is such an expense of time. It’s the ultimate luxury.”Especially when you’ve spent 17 years searching for a proper recipe. —Hunter LewisCook’s note: Decent bread and canned beans work fine here, but if you shop for the best rustic loaf baked with freshly milled flour you can find, and cook your beans in extra sofrito a day ahead—especially white beans sold byRancho Gordo—your ribollita will go from good to great.Food52Fruit pies and summer go hand in hand. Blueberries and apricots are in season and make a perfect pairing for a slab pie. I took Martha Stewart's basic recipe and tweaked it using some Cook's Illustrated tips and the strawberry jam recipe Cathy Barrow (f52's MrsWheelbarrow) recently published in the New York Times. When I make a standard blueberry pie I use a combination of tapioca starch and pectin from a grated apple as a thickener – a trick I learned from Cook's Illustrated, which makes the best blueberry pie ever. The pectin allows for less starch use, so a more pure fruit flavor shines through. MrsWheelbarrow uses a kiwi fruit as a pectin source in her strawberry jam, so for my slab pie I decided to use a kiwi and tapioca to thicken the fruit. To add some sophistication I incorporated lavender blossoms and verbena leaves. Feel free to omit them if you'd like, and if you can't get verbena you can substitute lemon zest. I also tweaked the crust recipe (using the Cook's Illustrated vodka crust technique) to make the dough easier to work with, and because I like the texture from a mix of butter and vegetable (or in this case) coconut oil. The resulting pie was almost fully consumed at a Fourth of July gathering that had a somewhat insane amount of food, so I know it is pretty delicious! Note: I like to pour liquid coconut oil into a container so it makes a layer somewhere between ¼- and ½-inch thick, then freeze it to make cutting it into small chunks easier.Food52I’ve made my share of macaroni and cheese in the 1840 Farm kitchen. From the homemade to the (I’m sorry to say) character-shaped pasta shapes in cheese sauce the color of a dayglo orange construction cone. I’m hoping that you’ll find it in your heart to forgive me. I couldn’t help it. I live with a marathon runner and two children. Pasta for dinner is a necessity. Can you blame me? I prefer the homemade variety of macaroni and cheese. That wasn’t always the case. In fact, I have a vivid childhood memory of my grandmother making me macaroni and cheese from scratch during a visit to her home in New York. She proudly proclaimed that she was making me macaroni and cheese for dinner. Some time later, she presented me with a deliciously creamy pasta dish made with sharp white cheddar. I’m sorry to say that as a child from the midwest, all I saw was that it didn’t look like the blue Kraft box variety I was used to. The noodles were a different shape. The cheese was a different color and so sharp that it nearly knocked me off my chair. It was too much for my pediatric brain to accept. I don’t remember how much of my dinner I ended up eating that night. I do remember that my grandmother never made me macaroni and cheese from scratch again. She stuck to the blue box and saved her kitchen time for breads, pastries, and desserts. We were both happier. Now the joke is on me. It’s been too many decades for me to freely admit to and now I have a child who looks at homemade macaroni and cheese as if I am asking him to eat haggis. And getting back to the marathon runner and other child, they’d rather not eat pasta that comes with a side of angioplasty. So, how do you make a rich, creamy macaroni and cheese without just adding more and more cheese? Enter the carrot. Yes, you read that correctly. The carrot. With a very small amount of prep work, you end up with a lighter, healthier, dare I say better, version of the family favorite. And, as a bonus, thanks to the carrot, that incredibly rich orange color will be sure to follow. I’m not suggesting that you hide the carrots from your family although I know that this kind of Tom Foolery has come into fashion lately. Instead, I would encourage you to celebrate the astonishing fact that you could make macaroni and cheese that tastes this good using something so good for you. While it may serve me right that my son doesn’t appreciate this version (or any other) of homemade macaroni and cheese, I have learned my lesson. I don’t force him to eat carrotoni and cheese. He’s not ready for it yet. I’ll take my grandmother’s lead and stick to his other favorites when I’m cooking for him. I know he’ll come around, it just may take him a decade or two. This recipe is adapted from a recipe that first appeared in the April 2009 issue of Food & Wine Magazine and it has taken me several attempts to get it just right. While the original recipe calls for baking the dish in the oven, I find that baking the pasta leads to a drier macaroni than suits my taste. I prefer to skip the baking step and enjoy a creamier version of this dish. Either way, the end result tastes delicious.Food and WineAndrew Zimmern’s Kitchen AdventuresI am eight years old. I am on a food recon trip with my dad in the middle of a fall day in Los Angeles. He is there for work, and I am tagging along for a few days of fun with my old man. We arrive at the place he has been searching for, a now-defunct restaurant called Thai Kitchen that used to be on Vermont between Eighth and Ninth. I have never seen, smelled or tasted Thai cooking. Walking in the door, I feel overwhelmed by the bright perfume of mint, lemongrass and chile, the now unmistakable bounce in the air when tamarind hits a wok. First thing I eat: chicken soup. There is a great New York City Jewish joke in there somewhere, but all I have energy for right now is recalling my first encounter with one of my favorite foods. To this day, I make this dish almost every time I have guests in my house. And despite its now-clichéd existence in the Ameri-Thai iconography, its exotic nature still rings my bell every time I wolf down a bowl or two or five. There is no better recipe to define my obsession with the romance of food, internationalism, travel or, for that matter, good, solid cookery. So it’s fitting that this is my first recipe for this space.Ask anyone today if they love Thai food, and they all say yes. The stunning complexity of Thai cuisine, studded at brief intervals with simple, elegant dishes, makes it one of the world’s most popular cuisines. Ask those same devotees to name a dish, and they all say "pad thai" and then quickly add "...and that amazing chicken soup with coconut." But they have trouble recalling its name. Well, here it is: gai tom ka. At its core, this is a basic Thai recipe, and a favorite with many Asian-food fans. All the ingredients can be collected from the Asian supermarkets that are springing up everywhere. If you can’t find chile-tamarind sauce, you can make your own by mixing Thai chile paste with a tamarind puree.—Andrew Zimmern More Thai RecipesFood and WineIn 2018, Food & Wine named this recipe one of our 40 best: Before he was a television food mega-star, Emeril Lagasse made a name for himself as the chef at the legendary Commander's Palace in New Orleans, arguably the city's best restaurant at the time. Lagasse was a master of "haute Creole" cooking, a complex blend of Creole and Cajun with signature dishes such as baked redfish en papillote and bread pudding soufflé. (The soufflé is still on the Commander's Palace menu today.) On a visit to New York City in 1984, Lagasse visited the Food & Wine test kitchen and shared several recipes, including his Shrimp Creole. The spicy Creole sauce has layers of flavor built on a foundation of the Cajun flavor trinity— onion, celery, and green bell pepper—mixed with garlic and sautéed in butter until tender. The Creole sauce can be made through step 4 and chilled for up to 4 days, or can be frozen for up to a month. This recipe makes more Creole seasoning than you'll need; save the remainder in an air-tight container.
