Dutch Apple Cider Pancake

With 35 pounds of apples sitting in the refrigerator, apples must be eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Starting the day with this apple pancake is wonderful because it’s delicious, impressive looking, and I’ve engineered the cooking process to be as efficient as possible. The extra-large pancake is baked in a skillet, which makes the simple batter puffy, rumpled, crispy around the edges, and golden brown. The pancake encases meltingly soft apples, and the whole thing is drizzled with a … Continue reading

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Coconut Curry Shrimp: The Global Quest

Over the past several years and in multiple countries (France, 2008; Aruba, 2010), I’ve sporadically encountered an irresistible shrimp curry. I racked my brain about how I could duplicate its flavors, but I haven’t known where to start. And then I made this shrimp curry recipe, straight from the pages of a magazine dedicated to India. As I read the magazine, I noticed that several of the recipes used fresh coconut, an ingredient I hadn’t cooked with before. I got … Continue reading

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Harvest Cookie

I’ve been working on a harvest cookie for this entire year. After falling in love with the harvest cookies at Prêt à Manger and the ranger cookies from Nordstrom Café, I set out to make my own fully-loaded versions. For a while, though, all of my attempts were utter failures. Then, I signed up for that cookie science class in an attempt to figure things out. But before I could really experiment, life took a turn for the better when my friend … Continue reading

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