Search Results from May 2016 issue
Recipes
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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.
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We will avoid all Sex and the City references here, but the fact remains: This cocktail is classic for a reason.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The dressing also makes a great dip for crudités.
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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.
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Though Birrieria Zaragoza uses goat, this deeply spiced braise is equally good with lamb.
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Two for one: Spooning spiced butter over steak flavors the meat while building a nuanced sauce.
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Normally served cold as a sweet cinnamon-and-rice drink, horchata translates seamlessly to this creamy dessert.
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Step 1: Prep this simple soffritto and nutty pesto. Step 2: Make beautiful, clean soups on a whim.
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XO sauce can be used as an all-purpose condiment. It’s great over rice, steamed or roasted veggies, or roast chicken.
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These snaggable, snackable wedges have more in common with a bowl of party mix than any perfunctory salad.
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A dead-simple shellfish dish that is pure Erickson: ocean-adoring, dairy-rich, fun to eat.
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Vegan
Who knew that dessert could be as easy—and refreshing—as combining sugar and water?
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Chef Erickson has access to the best seafood anywhere; when it comes to sardines, she goes with Matiz sardines in olive oil.
One of those dreamy cookies that elicits a silent reverence in every chocolate lover who tastes it.
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In this otherwise straightforward chicken dish, cashews are transformed into a creamy sauce, and candied spiced walnuts are used as a crunchy topper.
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A hot pink citrusy-sour drink with a jalapeño kick.
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