Recipes By Suzanne Lenzer
6 recipes found
Chocolate Cupcakes
This simple recipe, modestly entitled “Chocolate Cupcakes” from the 1974 book “Maida Heatter’s Book of Great Desserts,” produces cakes with a rich, moist crumb that relies on cocoa powder for a deep chocolatey flavor. But it’s the topping of semi-sweet chocolate ganache that separates these cupcakes from the crowd.
Quick Pizza Dough
The trouble with most homemade pizza dough recipes is that they’re sort of a pain. You have to plan ahead. Knead the dough. Let it rise. Clean up after it. This might be the pizza dough recipe that finally persuades you it’s worth the effort — what little effort is required. With the help of two allies in the kitchen — your food processor and your freezer — now homemade pizza dough is nearly as simple as taking a chicken breast out of the freezer to thaw on your way out the door in the morning.
Chorizo Boudin Balls
Chorizo boudin balls are an appetizer akin to Italian arancini in which Cajun dirty rice is studded with spiced pork and enriched with creamy chicken livers before being draped in panko, fried and served with a garlic aioli. Hearty yet refined, these can be made ahead, chilled (or even frozen) and then cooked just before guests arrive.
Arugula Salad With La Tur Dressing
Update the standard, ubiquitous blue cheese salad dressing to give it a more luscious consistency and a softer, milkier flavor, just the thing for drizzling over a bed of baby arugula, fresh figs and crisped prosciutto.
Roast Pork Dip
This roast pork dip sandwich, with shredded meat slathered in a rich roux-based dipping sauce, comes from Brian Landry, the chef and an owner of Borgne Restaurant in New Orleans. Pork butt, pierced with garlic slivers and rubbed with fresh rosemary, is slow-roasted until meltingly tender on a bed of vegetables that flavor the final sauce. The meat can be made ahead and then reheated before it is tucked into a crusty roll, a delicious tweak on the po’ boy. “They say the sign of a good po’ boy is how many napkins it takes to get through a sandwich,” Mr. Landry said. “This one takes a lot of napkins.” At Borgne he garnishes it with crispy fried onions, Tabasco-enhanced mayonnaise and melted Swiss cheese.
Creole Spiced Shrimp
This shrimp boil recipe admittedly requires a lot of ingredients, but don’t be put off. In this boil, fennel seed, cloves, allspice and a host of other spices infuse sweet shrimp with flavors straight out of the bayou, while also filling your kitchen with an intoxicating aroma.