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Search Results from May 2016 issue

Siesta
Revive yourself for the night ahead with this vivid tequila, grapefruit, and Campari cocktail.
BA’s Best Carrot Cake
With crunch from toasted walnuts and an optional boozy punch from rum-plumped raisins, this is the only carrot cake recipe you’ll ever need.
French 75
The French 75 is that rare creature of a cocktail: elegant enough to make it feel as if you’re in Paris on New Year’s Eve but supremely simple to assemble.
Cosmopolitan
Quick
We will avoid all Sex and the City references here, but the fact remains: This cocktail is classic for a reason.
Mojito
Quick
On a sweltering summer evening, nothing hits quite like this minty mojito cocktail recipe. Don’t over-muddle your mint, which can cause bitterness.
Whiskey Sour
Quick
The perfect balance of bright lemon juice, warming bourbon, and sweet simple syrup for a refreshing cocktail that’s neither too cloying nor too biting.
Shrimp Toasts with Sesame Seeds and Scallions
These dim sum–style shrimp toasts make a surprisingly simple—and utterly addictive—at-home snack. With this method, you don’t even need a deep fryer to pull them off.
Crunchy Veg Bowl with Warm Peanut Sauce
A warm, sultry peanut sauce makes even bean sprouts feel indulgent. Learn how to make this recipe and more in our online cooking class with Sur la Table.
Chopped Spring Salad
Quick
This dressing is also great as a dip, and most of the vegetables listed here can be left in bigger pieces and treated as crudités instead.
Escarole Salad with Anchovy Cream and Crispy Quinoa
The dressing also makes a great dip for crudités.
Pietro’s Chicken Parmesan
At Pietro’s, the cooks deep fry the chicken cutlets in a large, wide skillet, which allows the oil to come up to temperature very quickly and stay there once the cutlet is added. Smart, but potentially messy (it’s a lot of oil!). If you have a Dutch oven with high sides, that will minimize splatter—we’d feel rotten if you got burned.
Braised Birria
Though Birrieria Zaragoza uses goat, this deeply spiced braise is equally good with lamb.
Strip Steak with Lemony Yogurt and Radishes
Two for one: Spooning spiced butter over steak flavors the meat while building a nuanced sauce.
Horchata Semifreddo
Normally served cold as a sweet cinnamon-and-rice drink, horchata translates seamlessly to this creamy dessert.
Spring Minestrone Verde with Pistachio Pesto
Step 1: Prep this simple soffritto and nutty pesto. Step 2: Make beautiful, clean soups on a whim.
Crudités with Bacon XO Sauce
XO sauce can be used as an all-purpose condiment. It’s great over rice, steamed or roasted veggies, or roast chicken.
Hand Salad With Buttermilk, Grapefruit, and Mixed Seeds
These snaggable, snackable wedges have more in common with a bowl of party mix than any perfunctory salad.
Steamed Clams with Chickpeas and Green Garlic
A dead-simple shellfish dish that is pure Erickson: ocean-adoring, dairy-rich, fun to eat.
Sweet Granita with Blackberries, Toasted Almonds, and Mint
Vegan
Who knew that dessert could be as easy—and refreshing—as combining sugar and water?
Sardine Toasts with Tomato Mayonnaise and Fennel
Chef Erickson has access to the best seafood anywhere; when it comes to sardines, she goes with Matiz sardines in olive oil.
Double and By Double I Mean Triple Chocolate Cookies
One of those dreamy cookies that elicits a silent reverence in every chocolate lover who tastes it.
Roast Half Chicken with Cashew Tarator and Celery
In this otherwise straightforward chicken dish, cashews are transformed into a creamy sauce, and candied spiced walnuts are used as a crunchy topper.
Kamikaze
The name says it all. Or does it? You're drinking vodka. And fast.
Pineapple-Hibiscus Cocktail
A hot pink citrusy-sour drink with a jalapeño kick.