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POULTRY

10/18/13 • CHICKEN MARSALA

10/18/13 • CHICKEN MARSALA From the June, 2005 Gourmet Several weeks ago I purchased a bottle of dry Marsala wine in order to make this recipe for sautéed mushrooms. The resulting dish was a wonderful early autumn treat, but I have to confess that the real source of excitement for me was cooking with the wine I’d bought for the occasion—an ingredient I’d never worked with before. That may sound like an odd confession
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07/11/13 • ASIAN CHICKEN SALAD

07/11/13 • ASIAN CHICKEN SALAD Adapted from the May, 2013 Bon Appétit Have you noticed how some of the cooking magazines have a page or two each month devoted to reader requests for favorite restaurant dishes? Well this is the spot where I would have included one of those myself, except that the recipe I’ve been wanting to bring to you, or more precisely the restaurant associated with it, is not the sort that believe
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05/28/13 • CHICKEN CUTLETS WITH TOMATOES

05/28/13 • CHICKEN CUTLETS WITH TOMATOES From the June/July, 2013 Fine Cooking There’s nothing like the anticipation of big events in your life (and the arrival of your 5th decade!) to spur change, which I suppose explains why Alfredo and I have recently made some alterations to our way of doing things—specifically in the realm of food. This isn’t the first time we’ve made such tweaks but it is the only occasion I ca
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04/09/13 • GARLICKY FRIED CHICKEN (& 100th POSTING!)

04/09/13 • GARLICKY FRIED CHICKEN (& 100th POSTING!) Adapted from the Sept., 2005 Gourmet It felt like something special was in order for this, my 100th posting, and as luck would have it, the date aligned with another important milestone: the fortieth birthday of our good friend Dennis. I’ve mentioned Dennis often over the past few years, both because Alfredo and I spend so much of our time with him, and because
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03/07/13 • VINEGAR-BRAISED CHICKEN

03/07/13 • VINEGAR-BRAISED CHICKEN Adapted from the Feb., 2013 Bon Appétit Recently someone told me that if an expectant mother wants to ensure her child has an adventuresome palate, she must eat as broadly as possible during her pregnancy—the idea being that whatever she consumes is more likely to become imprinted in her unborn child’s consciousness, thereby increasing the chances that the food, the flavor, whatever
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09/27/12 • WEEKNIGHT CHICKEN WINNER

09/27/12 • WEEKNIGHT CHICKEN WINNER From the August, 2012 Bon Appetit (click here to view the recipe) When the August issue of Bon Appetit arrived in my mailbox several months ago I did what I always do when one of the new cooking magazines arrives—I immediately ripped into it to see if there was anything that spoke to me. Usually this is a fast flip-through, followed by a more thorough examination when time allows.
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05/10/12 • CHICKEN, CUBAN-STYLE!

05/10/12 • CHICKEN, CUBAN-STYLE! From A Taste of Old Cuba (HarperCollins) Last night Alfredo and I hosted a small dinner for our good friend Scott who was celebrating one of those big birthdays that only come around a few times in your life—the kind with a nice round number that the celebrant generally prefers not to linger on (and so I won’t either). It was a great night with good friends, good food, and too m
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03/29/12 • PARM PERFECTION

03/29/12 • PARM PERFECTION From the Jan., 2011 Martha Stewart Living (click here to view the recipe) It’s funny how a dish that’s been around for what seems like forever can suddenly catch on again, showing up on the pages of cookbooks and cooking magazines with renewed currency. Such has recently been the case with one of my all-time favorites (obsessions, really) — chicken parmigiana. For years I’ve had a weakness
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02/23/12 • A LAYERED PERFORMANCE

02/23/12 • A LAYERED PERFORMANCE From Elle Decor (click here to view the recipe) Maybe it comes from growing up in a house where Sunday football was the sort of social event that had family, friends, even a few of my stepfather’s graduate students, gathered around the television, feasting on sandwiches and anything else my mom brought out of the kitchen, but today I like nothing more than inviting a group over for fo
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11/24/11 • TURKEY POT PIE

11/24/11 • TURKEY POT PIE As featured in Vanity Fair • 11/23/2011 • www.vf.com Everyone has at least one favorite Thanksgiving recipe. I can think of about ten that immediately spring to mind, and over time I hope to bring all of them to you (as Dorie Greenspan once said to me, food is ultimately about sharing, a concept that effectively kills the idea of the “secret recipe”). But this year, for my first Thanksgiving
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