American Recipes
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David Lebovitz's Chocolate Sorbet
Despite having no dairy or eggs, this chocolate sorbet recipe is impossibly creamy. It also remains perfectly scoopable without going icy in the slightest.
Rhubarb Iced Tea
I decided it might be nice to mix tradition with innovation. So I added in some rhubarb to my grandmother's iced tea and came up with this summer recipe.
Patacones and Chifles (plantains cut fat and thin)
Patacones and Chifles are plantains cut fat and thin and fried in oil. I was shown how to make this chifles recipe by the lady who helped in our house.
Mentaiko or Bottagra Cucumber Toast with Poached Egg
My husband likes mentaiko (salted roe) on his rice, with pickles, and an ONSEN TAMAGO (Hot Springs Poached Egg) on top. Over the years we started a toast version of this Japanese dish. Onsen Tamago are made by lowering eggs in bamboo baskets into the Hot Springs waters which very slowly poach the eggs. If you have the Momofuku Cookbook by David Chang and Peter Meehan, look for the Slow-Poached Eggs recipe. Their version is very close to the real thing. This photo is a real Onsen Tamago with mentaiko (spicy version of tarako) on the Japanese favorite toast--extremely thick, toasted crusty on the outside, and soft and fluffy on the inside. I prefer a firmer, healthier bread, but be sure to cut it thick.
Decadent Fried Egg Sandwich
The decadence in this recipe is due to the amount of butter used to make the fried egg. I love this sandwich's complex salty flavor from the anchovy.
Spring Radish Crostini with creamy Herb Butter
The crunchy baguette slathered with the garlicky-herb butter and topped with crisp Radish and delicate pea sprout is the perfect Crostini recipe appetizer.
Browned Butter Baby Turnips
Baby Turnips don't require any peeling because their skins are tender, so for this recipe you just need to trip their tops and tails, and let them saute.
Spun Honey
Spun honey is more of an experiment than a recipe, but I'm happy with the results so wanted to share. Some of the honey crystallizes with need to re-liquify it.
Barbara Kafka's Simplest Roast Chicken
Barbara Kafka's basic formula for roasting chickens in the high-heat method is about ten minutes to the pound for a chicken at room temperature, untrussed. Feel free to adapt this recipe up or down for larger or smaller birds using this rule (up to 7 pounds). Kafka urges us to have fun: "This is not astrophysics." Try stuffing instead with herbs, shallots, a quartered small onion, celery leaves, or juice or blood orange wedges. Recipe adapted from Adapted from Roasting: A Simple Art (William Morrow, 1995)
Egg Salad on Radish Slices Canape
I like my egg salad recipe to be served on whole wheat toast with a thin layer of sliced radishes on top of the egg salad. It makes a great canapé!
Bacon Wrapped Roasted Radishes
Heating radishes gives them new life. They soften. They mellow. They become buttery. Try this Bacon Wrapped Radishes recipe, it will blow your mind!
Quick Homemade Puff Pastry
Homemade Puff Pastry can easily be made at home in this Quick recipe. Freeze sheets of dough for quick appetizers, satisfying main courses & impressive desserts.
Mango Tarragon Vinaigrette with Pickled Green Peppercorns
A creamy vinaigrette recipe that gets its sweetness from ripe Mango, its aroma from tarragon, and delivers flavor bombs from Thai pickled Green Peppercorn.
Daniel Patterson's Poached Scrambled Eggs
These are the quickest and fluffiest of poached scrambled eggs, made with a forgiving technique. Though this recipe serves 2, you can scale up or down freely.
Grilled Mango Sundae for Adults
This is a grown-up Sundae recipe, with grilled Mango, Amaretto, vanilla ice cream, and amaretti (Italian cookies). A dessert to impress that's so easy to make!
Grilled Goat Cheese with Apple on Cranberry Pecan Bread
Happy National Grilled Cheese Day! Since we’re on a Hunger Games kick, this sandwich is also inspired by our culinary book of the month. It’s a hybrid between the fruit-and-nut bread with goat cheese that Gale and Katniss eat at the beginning of the first book, and the apple and goat cheese tarts that Peeta serves at his bakery. If you haven’t read Hunger Games, then this is just an unaffiliated, super classy Grilled Goat Cheese Sandwich on Cranberry Pecan Bread with Apples. Enjoy!
Chewy Chocolate Meringues
Deliciously simple, this recipe's chewy chocolate meringue cookies stay soft in the center under a crisp shell. They're gluten free with three ingredients!
Roasted Red Pepper and Cashew Dip
I eat this roasted red pepper with cashew dip with crackers, crudites, on eggs or as a sandwich spread. This recipe is easy and delicious.
Macaroons
This is a great Macaroons recipe, they are perfectly fluffy & sweet without falling apart- the key is really beating the sugar & egg whites. No gluten and dairy.
Key Lime & Kumquat Curd
Smash two tiny, cute fruits together with some eggs and sugar and you get this Key Lime & Kumquat Curd recipe! The kumquat adds sweet/tart essence to the curd.
Turkish Mint Lemonade
This Turkish Mint Lemonade is one of the most refreshing drinks we've ever had, because it's minty and not too sweet. Recipe can easily be doubled or tripled.
Maple Baked Acorn Squash "Milkshake"
This is my favorite (although not the healthiest) way to prepare acorn squash. Normally, I'd puree it in a soup (with earthy fall flavors like bacon, chipotle, cumin, or roasted garlic) but for this recipe I decided to highlight the maple flavor, turning the puree into a milkshake. Coconut milk adds richness, vanilla rounds out the flavors and signals "dessert".
Roasted Bananas with Maple-Bourbon Sauce
This is a Dessert recipe that is warm, filling, energy-boosting & delicious. Bourbon & Maple were made for each other but you can also use rum for the Sauce.
Buttermilk Maple Gelato
I know, another ice cream recipe - but it's easy and tasty and I will make it again, so I am posting! By the way, what really IS the difference between ice cream and gelato? Milk vs cream? Fancy sounding vs not so much? I like fancy sounding. I did NOT get a good photo of the actual product because it got gobbled up so fast, so you get a picture of my great nephew wishing the friggin' paparazzi (me) would leave him alone while he eats.