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  • Scharffen Berger Pot De Creme

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    Ingredients 3 ounces Scharffen Berger 70 percent Bittersweet chocolate chopped fine 1 cup cream 1 cup milk ¼ cup sugar 4 egg yolks ½ teaspoon vanilla Salt to taste Instructions Preheat oven to 300 degrees Melt the chocolate with ½ of the cream over a double boiler. DO NOT LET THE CHOCOLATE GET TOO HOT OR […]

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  • The Splendid Table’s Pasta with Two Broccolis and Raisin-Pine Nut Sauce

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    Author Notes: A pasta recipe we never thought would work, and a couple tricks for getting more out of your weeknight pasta routine. Recipe adapted from The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper (Clarkson Potter, 2008). — Genius Recipes Ingredients For the sauce Good-tasting extra-virgin olive oil 1 medium red onion, cut into 1/4-inch dice Salt and freshly ground pepper, to […]

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  • Shanghai-Style Poached Salmon

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    Ingredients 4 salmon fillets, about 6 oz [170 g] each, skin and pin bones removed Sweet Vinegar Sauce 1/2 cup [120 ml] soy sauce 1/4 cup [60 ml] distilled white vinegar 1/4 cup [50 g] sugar 4 green onions, including green tops, cut into 1-in [2.5-cm] lengths 4 thin slices fresh ginger, peeled and julienned […]

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  • Gingersnap Cookies

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    Ingredients 2¼ cups all-purpose flour 2 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 1 tbsp ground ginger 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1 cup butter, at room temperature ½ cup brown sugar ½ cup granulated sugar 1 egg ¼ cup molasses Instructions Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. In […]

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  • Guinness Gingerbread Ice Cream

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    Ingredients Glucose syrup (5%) 50g | ¼ cup Brown Sugar (15%) 150g | ¾ cup Cream (30%) 300g | 1 ½ cups Milk (40%) 400g | 2 cups Sea Salt 1 tsp 3 egg yolks Cornstarch 10g | 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon, mixed with 40g | 4 tablespoons of cold milk 1 cup Guinness […]

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  • Chicken Fricassee, Cacciatora Style

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    Cacciatora means hunter’s style, and since there has always been a hunter in nearly every Italian household, every Italian cook prepares a dish with a claim to that description. Making generous allowances for the uncounted permutations in the dishes that go by the cacciatora name, what they generally consist of is a chicken or rabbit fricassee […]

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  • Focaccia with Onions, Genoese Style

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    The dough in the recipe given here produces a thick, tender focaccia with a crisp surface, which you can top with sautéed onion in the Genoese style, as described below, or vary in one of the alternative ways indicated, or devise a suitable variation of your own. – Marcella Hazan Ingredients For the dough 1 package […]

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  • Diplomatico — A Chocolate Dessert with Rum and Coffee

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    Is There any other dessert like diplomatico, I wonder, that rewards such little effort with such gratifying results? You never even have to turn on the oven because you utilize ready-made pound cake. Slices of rum- and coffee-soaked cake are alternated with a simple mousse-like mixture of melted chocolate and eggs, and basically that is […]

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  • Pizza con Potate e Rosmarino

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    Potato Pizza, Even Better by Smittenkitchen Adapted from Jim Lahey’s My Bread Notes A tiny bit more context: Potato pizza is one kind the pizza al taglio that is considered daytime pizza in Rome, baked in electric ovens in large rectangular or oblong shapes, cut with scissors to the size you desire, and sold by […]

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  • Jim Lahey’s Basic Pizza Dough

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    Note This is halved and modified slightly. Ingredients 2 cups minus 1 tablespoon (250 grams) all-purpose or bread flour 1 1/4 teaspoons (5 grams) instant or active dry yeast A heaped 1/4 teaspoon fine sea or table salt A heaped 1/4 teaspoon granulated sugar 2/3 cups (150 grams) room temperature water Instructions In a medium […]

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