Recipes By John Willoughby
44 recipes found

Moroccan-Style Carrot Salad

Grilled Rose-Water Poundcake
Rose water adds a delicate, floral note to this otherwise traditional pound cake. Two teaspoons is just enough to stand up to the smoky flavors of a light toasting on the grill. Serve it all with a peach compote, also with a touch of rose water, for an elegant warm-weather treat.

Oven-Barbecued Pimentón Brisket

Olive Oil-Poached Cod With Green Pepper Purée
Unlike many cooks, John Willoughby loves what he describes as the fresh, cool and slightly bitter taste of green peppers. This dish uses the liquor from the roasted peppers in addition to pepper purée.

Mushrooms with Herbs and Stout

Lamb Stew With Peaches and Verjuice

Pork and Beans with Garlic and Greens
Like other commonplace ingredients, beans too often fail to get their culinary due. Prepared with a little care, they can be as good in their own way as caviar, with subtly distinct, satisfyingly earthy flavors and a texture perfectly pitched between tenderness and chew. This recipe provides a classy twist on the typical view of pork and beans and even includes the use of that ubiquitous green, kale.

Bean-Hole Baked Beans
This recipe is a project that can be time- and labor-intensive. You need to dig a hole in your yard and build a fire in that hole to cook the beans. An important note: Failing to dig the hole, and using your oven instead, will result in beans that lack bona fides but are 98 percent as good as the ones that guy cooked in a hole in his yard. This recipe will take about 3 hours plus soaking time for the oven method.

Clay Pot Pork

Verjuice Dessert Bars

Candied Clementines
These intensely flavorful slices are the perfect garnish for a clementine cake and any other dessert that calls for a sweet dash of citrus. Though cooking down the fruit takes hours, you can start the simmer and leave it, checking in only occasionally. The sugar syrup left after the clementines are removed is worth saving for cocktails or even pouring over pancakes.

Turkish-Style Braised Eggplant

Peach Compote With Rose Water

Chicken Stew With Dried Limes

Simple Smoke-Roasted Whole Chicken

Smoky Quick-Cooked Kale

The Loomi
Tea made from dried limes makes an unusual and aromatic cocktail mixer.

Grilled Double-Thick Pork Chops With Southern Flavors

Tandoori-Style Whole Leg of Lamb
