Also known as Birth Day Foccacia and adapted from Cook's Illustrated, May 1997, with extra help from Martha Rose Shulman in the New York Times. One after in the spring of 2016, I went to the fabulous Pasta & Provisions on Providence Road in Charlotte to buy Pecorino-Romano … [Read more...]
Best Steel-Cut Oatmeal
From Cook's Illustrated. 3 cups water 1 cup whole milk 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 1 cup steel-cut oats ¼ teaspoon table salt Many supermarkets sell prepackaged steel-cut oats, but we found they were often stale and always expensive. A better option is to … [Read more...]
Buttermilk Waffles
When this recipe came out in The Best Recipe, by the editors of Cook’s Illustrated (1999), Chris and Andy were still living at home. We love our waffles and Andy's kitchen training included egg separation. He regularly quintupled this recipe to provide enough waffles for … [Read more...]