The Wednesday Chef

Month: November 2007

  • Irene Kuo’s Stir-Fried Celery in Meat Sauce

    I never met a vegetable I didn't like. Zucchini, with its sweet, creamy flesh; swiss chard, thick and papery to start, then soulfully silky to finish; kohlrabi, with its refreshing, vegetal snap; eggplant, spongy in one moment, melting the next. Green beans and Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and broccoletti, artichokes and spinach – I love them…

  • Jeff Hertzberg’s Simple Crusty Bread

    Yes, I know this recipe was just published this morning, and I know that you’re all plenty busy as it is with turkeys and pies and stuffing, and if you’re not cooking then you’re probably on your way out the door (we’re leaving in half an hour and I haven’t even packed yet), but I…

  • Alice Medrich’s Whole-Wheat Sables

          I made a bunch of cookies on Saturday afternoon, when it was cold outside and my oven and I were indulging in a little love affair. They were delicious, the cookies, all sandy and and buttery and wholesome and it was so calming, the process, making the simple dough and chilling it…

  • Recipes in bold are my favorites. Breakfast**********BagelsPeter Reinhart’s BagelsBanana Chocolate Walnut BreadBanana Coconut BreadBanana Bread with Chocolate and Crystallized GingerBlack Rice Breakfast Pudding with Coconut and BananaBlueberry Bannock SconeBlueberry Bran MuffinsBlueberry Buckwheat Pancakes (GF)Buttermilk-Brown Sugar WafflesBrown Bread MuffinsCardamom Lemon Soda BreadCherry Cornmeal SconesChocolate-Almond Whirligig BunsCocoa Banana BreadCoconut BreadCornmeal-Cranberry PancakesFrench Chocolate GranolaHazelnut-Lemon-Ricotta PancakesLemon-Poppyseed SconesMalted Corn PancakesMaple…

  • Carolina Braunschweig’s Apple Butter

    Hoo. Hoo. Hoooo. I'm having a hard time catching my breath. In fact, pass that paper bag, I feel like I might need it. Why? Let me tell you why. It's November 15th. November 15th! Do you know what that means? It's that time of year again, that time of year that creeps up on…

  • Kim Boyce’s Whole-Wheat Sweet Potato Muffins

    I am an orderly and punctual kind of girl. One who revels in being in bed by 10:00, gets pleasure out of the neatly folded lines of sheets and towels in our linen closet, loves using up the last four turnips, two beets and half a rutabaga in the fridge for a lovely autumn soup…

  • Russ Parsons’s Salt-Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Rosemary and Fingerling Potatoes

    Oh yes, I know what you’re thinking. Doesn’t that look lovely? All burnished and brown and crusty? All herby and earthy and fragrant? Pork tenderloin, baby, and soft little potatoes, baked in a salt crust. Oh yeah. You don’t even know how good the house smells right now. So good. Yes, it does. I’m alone…

  • Teddie’s Apple Cake

    Let's start with a thrilling announcement, shall we? Readers, I now have a fancy Recipe Index on my site! Right there, to the left, under my author photo. Thank you for putting up with those difficult-to-navigate archives for so long – two years, two months, and 304 posts to be exact. I've gotten many, many…

  • Delicata Squash and Celery Root Puree

    Twenty-one (21) days. Three (3) short weeks. Millions of turkeys meeting their fate in the meantime, and billions of cranberries, too. Yes, that's right – Thanksgiving approaches. But not loomingly, in the menacing way that Christmas does, with its stressful days (or evenings, I should say, pantingly afoot before the shops close) of shopping, mind-numbing…