Anyone who knows me well knows I don’t like strawberry rhubarb pie; my appologies to cooks everywhere but I think cooked strawberries are one of the nastiest things ever—taste and texture are both ruined by cooking as far as I am concerned.
But this pie, devised by Narsai David, food writer and the one-time owner of the [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 22, 2009
Corned Beef and Cabbage, Revamped
As with all my recipes, this one bears a disclaimer—the corned beef. It is getting harder and harder to find anything other than the corned beef packaged in shrink-rap emblazoned with an Irish name around St. Patrick’s Day.
If you have a butcher and can order a first cut corned beef, go for it—it will be [...]
January 22, 2009
Latkes
The famous potato pancake that heralds the arrival of Hanukkah is a welcome sight all year long, and at any meal—with eggs for breakfast or brunch, with a salad for lunch, or with brisket and all varieties of meat for dinner.
I have been making these for years, varying the types of potatoes, using different sized [...]
