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This recipe will make large latkes with a nice crisp edges. I grew up with a different style of latke (grated potatoes) and also enjoy making them that way, too. Fried potatoes are wonderful, however you prepare them!
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Genuine cassoulet involves using a lot of pork, especially fat-laden cuts of meat. Half of our household doesn’t eat mammals and the other half is avoiding saturated fats. Enter this recipe… We hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we do. While it’s easy to prepare, it takes 2 hours to cook. It’s worth the…
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If you’re going to bother making ice cream at home, don’t waste your time with flavors you can buy in the store. Try this classic flavor combination.
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Great bread for making toast or sandwiches. It mixes easily without a mixer and rises quickly.
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This dish, with the most unusual name and cooking method, is one of the most flavorful Asian chicken dishes I have ever encountered. We’ve become addicted to it and kept looking for a reliable recipe until we found this one.
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These are wonderfully delicious — the perfect thing with cocktails. Spicy-salty-sweet shrimp. Just make sure you check the temperature before serving them as they are deadly when they first emerge from the oven.
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A bit of trouble but so yummy. You can probably cut down on the cream but using fish stock to make the filling, but why would you?
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This is a tasty (fishy) hors d’oeuvre that comes together in minutes.
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Made with canned cuttlefish, this is a real favorite of ours. When we are feeling lazy, it’s an easy meal. And faster than calling Jiffy Squid for a delivery! We’d never serve this to friends, who generally don’t like fishy flavors or things with tentacles, but for us it’s perfect comfort food.
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Yes, we did rename this recipe after finding it years ago. We couldn’t decide whether the American Dental Association or American College of Cardiology might benefit more from this recipe — loaded with sugar and butter. These are delicious. Just don’t tell your doctor or dentist you ate them!
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My mother made this for my birthday (mid-July). She’d make bigger cakes than the one in this recipe and yet I don’t recall them serving anywhere near 12 people. Usually the leftovers were gone by the next day (just in time for my sister’s birthday). Our appetites are now under better control.
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The afternoon we returned from our elopement/wedding, Bob decided to bake a wedding cake. We do everything backwards, don’t we? Evan volunteers on Tuesday mornings, so he took the cake next day, shared it with his fellow volunteers and brought a piece back for Bob to eat afterwards. We’ll make another one and maybe we…
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This is a sure-fire way to make duck with lean, crisp skin.
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A Portuguese rice dish that’s tasty and simple. I can’t explain why it’s considered mischievous though — it’s just delicious!
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This is a delicious alternative to gazpacho: this traditional cold soup highlights the flavors of ripe tomatoes perfectly. You can make this in a blender, food processor or with an immersion blender. I am fixated on a super-smooth soup and therefore prefer a traditional blender, but they have all done the trick for me at…
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Not too sweet: the black tea helps tone down the intense sweetness of the dried figs.
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This is sheer garlic heaven. I originally used this to accompany Shellfish Paella, but it’s equally fantastic with grilled vegetables or anything else that needs a little garlic creaminess.
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This recipe is a bit involved, but truly worth the trouble. The traditional shellfish paella is a little soupy and is typically served with a dab of Garlic Allioli on the side. Feel free to vary the seafood according to your taste and its availability.
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Rustic and simple to make, this cake is an incredibly delicious treat in fall and winter. it has become one of our seasonal favorites.
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Even if this weren’t so delicious, it would be worth it for the color alone.
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This looks like perfect M&C, but it’s vegan and umami-ful. The sauce can be used for other purposes (on vegetables, for example).
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I had a dream that involved a chocolate cake. The next day I felt compelled to make one. You can mix this cake faster than your oven will heat up.
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Cholent was a traditional, hearty meat stew cooked by the Jews of eastern Europe for the Sabbath meal. This is an updated version that relies on duck meat. It cooks overnight in the oven or a slow cooker.
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I wanted to create a yeast bread that was flavored with bananas, filled with nuts and not too sweet. This hits the spot.
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We have worked our way through variety of source recipes to finally settle on this one. They are perfect for dipping in vin santo or coffee.
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Throughout Portugal you will will find a variety of recipes for bacalhau à brás, a dish of potatoes, onions and salt cod, bound together with beaten eggs. While traveling to Porto, we were served something more like this recipe, topped with poached eggs instead of being held together by softly scrambled eggs. We added the…
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Braising the squid provides tasty liquid for cooking the rice and ensures that the squid meat is tender. This is even better if you add some roasted red pepper strips near the end.
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This started out as a fish main dish, but after tasting it, we decided to just have it as a vegetable dish. Side or main? Who knows.
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After trying numerous recipes over the years, this is the winner. Hands down. Just enough crispness and not too sweet. It’s become our favorite, and hopefully it will be yours, too.
Boys of Cooking
Don't wait a for a dinner invitation. Try cooking for yourself for a change.