Author: amsal

  • Lisbon

    All Day Lunch (usually dinner too) Dinner Only Skip Recs I Haven’t Tried Yet Outside the City

  • Best Desserts 2021

    Europe & US Dark Chocolate Lovers Boston – Giulia – Chocolate Panna Cotta Boston – Blackbird – Chocolate Donut Boston – Clear Flour Bakery – Bouchon Boston – LA Burdick – Hot Chocolate NYC – Sant Ambroeus – Hot Chocolate NYC – Mel – Sourdough Chocolate Croissant NYC – Boucherie – Chocolate Mousse Chicago –…

  • Roasted Tomato Pasta

    Julienne half an eggplant, skin on. Sauté in a pan with olive oil and salt until soft, perhaps 6 minutes. Take some plum tomatoes, mark an X on the bottom, and drop into boiling water for 20 seconds until the skin splits. Remove from water and put into ice bath to stop the cooking. Remove…

  • New Coffee Cake

    Cake ½ cup/113 grams unsalted butter at room temperature 1 ¼ cups/260 grams sugar 2 large eggs 1 ½ cups flour/188 grams 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon salt 1 ¼ cups/300 grams sour cream 1 teaspoon vanilla Streusel ½ cup packed dark brown sugar ¼ cup all-purpose flour 1 tsp ground cinnamon 3 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted ¾…

  • Panna Cotti

    Makes 5 16 oz cream 50 g sugar 2.5 sheets of gelatin 1.75 oz 55% Valrhona Equatoriale chocolate 1.75 oz 70% Valrhona Guanaja chocolate Directions Bring sugar and heavy cream to simmer Meanwhile bloom the gelatin using ice water Melt chocolate into heavy cream mixture, remove from heat and stir in gelatin Pass entire mixture…

  • Pie Dough

    112g flour 7.5g sugar 2g salt 1 stick butter 1/4 cup water (cold from tap) Directions Whisk dry ingredients.  Add butter. Mush with fingers.  Add water.  Roll out dough; ideally it’s ~65 degrees. Roll, fold in 1/4ths.  In fridge for 2 hours.  Back 350 for 60 minutes. 

  • Apple Crisp

    First Bowl 100 grams sugar + additional for sprinkling on fruit 34 grams flour Lemon juice Second Bowl 1 stick melted butter 150 grams of flour 100 grams sugar Directions In a bowl, put 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup flour, juice from two lemons. Mix. In another bowl put one stick of melted butter, 1…

  • Toffee

    113 grams almonds roasted and chopped 1 tablespoon water 1/4 cup butter pinch of salt 110 grams white sugar 22 grams brown sugar 70 grams bittersweet chocolate vanilla extract (about a teaspoon) 1/8 teaspoon baking soda Directions Note: before you start, measure out the baking soda and vanilla, so that you can immediately put it…

  • Ice Cream Sandwich

    1 cup sugar (215g) 1 stick melted butter 2 eggs 1/2 cup cocoa (50g) 1/2 cup flour (64g) Directions Preheat the oven to 350ºF.  Cream butter, sugar. Add eggs.  Add dry ingredients.  Bake 10-12 minutes.