Category: Recipes (Successful and Not)

OK, all you coronavirus quarantine bread bakers out there. It’s time to get serious. You’ve done banana breads, zucchini breads, blueberry muffins, and buttermilk biscuits. You’ve tried your hand at… [Continue Reading]

Chef Sin and I have freakishly similar tastes in most things, but especially in food. We both prefer our meat medium rare. We both despise beets. We both think Dungeness… [Continue Reading]

My go-to sandwich when visiting an unfamiliar diner or lunch spot is usually a BLT. It’s hard to mess up bacon, lettuce, and tomato on bread — at least, not… [Continue Reading]

We celebrated Thanksgiving last week. Not because we forgot that it was February. Or that we missed the November holiday. We celebrated Thanksgiving last week for basically one reason: We’d… [Continue Reading]

The holiday is over. The gifting is done. The feast has been reduced to an oddball collection of Gladware tubs and clingwrap covered dishes stacked in the fridge like an Irish famine… [Continue Reading]

The Bake-Off, and a Bonus If you’ve stuck with this ludicrously overfermented series this far, you’ve already seen the recipes behind the three approaches to no-knead bread that Cuisine Stupide has tested: Jim… [Continue Reading]

Copycats and Contrarians The outpouring of attention that the food world gave no-knead bread in the wake of the 2006 Mark Bittman column inspired many other chefs to work up their… [Continue Reading]

Some Kneadless Exposition As far as we’ve been able to determine, Jim Lahey was the first to put together the four essential elements of what has come to be known… [Continue Reading]

A New Way to Bread Of the many tens of thousands of words that food journalist Mark Bittman has written, perhaps none have had greater impact on how America cooks… [Continue Reading]