Pasta with Wild Mushrooms

This image courtesy of Joseph DeLeo This is a simple dish, but when every component is right, it is unbeatable. The base of the sauce is mushroom cream, heavy cream that has been steeped with sautéed vegetables and mushroom trimmings. When combined with luxurious wild mushrooms, it adds for more complexity than plain cream would.…

Chicken Roasted With Ginger and Cilantro recipes

There is something about the combination of fresh ginger and cilantro that tastes very Indian, very Delhi, to me, very much like home. In India, where few people have ovens, the chicken is browned first with the spices in a pan and then cooked on top of the stove over a low flame. I have,…

Vegetarian Lasagna recipes

Honestly, I’ve never been a lasagna girl. My mom always made it every year on Christmas Eve but it was never my thing. I’ve always been a fan of stuffed shells, myself. But then I made my first vegetarian lasagna using fresh spinach and big, earthy mushrooms! It was love at first bite. After eating…

XO Sauce

Ingredients:1/2 cup dried shrimp1/2 cup dried scallops1/2 cup coarsely chopped Chinese bacon, country ham, or proscuitto1/2 cup coarsely chopped Chinese sausage1 1/2 cups canola oil2 shallots, peeled and finely chopped1/4 cup crushed red pepper flakes1/4 cup thinly sliced garlic1/4 cup finely chopped fresh peeled ginger3 star anise1/2 stick cinnamon1/4 cup soy sauceCoarse salt

Mock Apple Pie Recipe

This is adapted from the recipe off the back of the Ritz cracker box. Add a dollop of homemade whipped cream or crème fraîche to balance out the sweetness of the filling and play up the puckery lemon flavor. For the Crust: 2 unbaked pie crusts (I used the Food Lab’s Easy Pie Crust) 1…

Imperial Royale Recipe

The Imperial Royale arose in Boston, as a reaction against the seriousness (some might say “pretension”) of the modern mixology movement. At its heart, the drink is an elderflower shandy, made of Bud Light Lime and St. Germain elderflower liqueur. Normally a shandy is beer mixed with citrus, lemonade, ginger beer, or cider. The Imperial…