AndyTalk: Almond Tart is a Sweet New Year’s Dessert

See Also: AndyTalk: The Surprising Lesson In Olive Oil Cake Even more than hors d’oeuvre, a New Year’s party needs dessert. Ringing in the New Year with something sweet symbolizes the wish for a sweet year ahead. Besides, if you’re celebrating late into the evening a little sugar rush never…

AndyTalk: Dates and Easy Hors d’Oeuvre

See Also: AndyTalk: Why You Should Make Pizza From Scratch AndyTalk: A Hard Cheese Is Good to Find Would you like a couple of crowd-pleasing recipes with less than five ingredients each suitable for New Year’s Eve or Christmas? Think dates, which happen to be the closest thing to candy…

AndyTalk: The Surprising Lesson in Olive Oil Cake

See Also: AndyTalk: Potato Latkes Can Be Trendy … Really – Six Ways to Celebrate Hanukkah in Metro Phoenix I want to share a recipe that didn’t work. Actually, part of the recipe worked, and part didn’t. I’ve been nibbling at the good part for a couple of days, but…

Andy Broder Finally Writes Down His Recipe for Spiced Cider

See Also: -AndyTalk: Potato Pancakes Can Be Trendy… Really -AndyTalk: A Hard Cheese is Good to Find There’s something about the aroma of apples and spice. Even in sunny Arizona a cup of warm cider soothes the soul, calms the nerves, and welcomes guests in a wonderfully primal way. If…

AndyTalk: The Persimmon Conundrum

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AndyTalk: Lentil Basics and a No-Recipe Dinner

See Also: AndyTalk: A Tale of Two Ground Beef Substitutes AndyTalk: Baby Bok Choy, Your New Favorite Lentils are easy. People have been eating lentils for about 10,000 years. Your cave ancestors cooked lentils with no modern conveniences. This means that you, even in the most ill-equipped kitchen, can master…

AndyTalk: A Hard Cheese is Good to Find

See Also: – AndyTalk: Autumn Means Apples – AndyTalk: The Trouble with Balsamic Vinegar Ounce for ounce nothing offers flavor as rich and intense as hard cheese. As cheese ages it loses water, concentrating its flavors. While aged cheeses don’t melt as well as creamier young cheeses most of them…

AndyTalk: Autumn Means Apples

Apples in shades of red, pink, gold and green are a great addition to all sorts of savory recipes. They add crunch, sweetness, maybe some tartness, and depth to whatever’s cooking.

AndyTalk: Baby Bok Choy, Your New Favorite

I’m sharing three baby bok options that take less than 10 minutes from start to finish. In any of the recipes you can use full size bok choy, cut into one-inch pieces, but it’s less tender and will take four minutes in the skillet instead of two.

AndyTalk: The Simple Pleasure of Chocolate Bruschetta

My Chocolate Bruschetta is like cinnamon toast on a hefty dose of steroids. How good is it? Sandy (AndyFood’s sous chef) is a vegetarian who aspires to veganism. This dessert trumps her vegan inclinations every time. She always has a slice.

AndyTalk: Four Riffs on Caprese Salad

A Caprese Salad is as classic and iconic as a blue blazer or a little black dress. All three invite personalization according to taste. In other words the salad is capricious.

AndyTalk: Five Most Common Kitchen Mistakes, #5 Microwave Misuse

See also: AndyTalk: How to melt Chocolate See also: AndyTalk: Garlic and Gadgetry When my family got its first microwave, I’d come home from school and make myself rubbery faux enchiladas almost every day. I was more enchanted with the process than the product. In culinary school, there was no…