Hell of a title, no? Wanted to make sure I got it all in there. These started their lives as a bread pudding version of flan—with plain caramel poured into the cups and the pudding mix spooned in over that. After baking, the caramel stuck to the cup; it didn’t flow nicely over the puddings and onto the plate like it does with flan. Then I thought of making...
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Fudgy Brownies So maybe you’re not wild about cakey brownies. If my recipe didn’t change your mind—as it did mine—then check these out. We used to make a version of these when we ran Blue Collar Food, a Soho-based catering company. People loved them and our normally super-focused prep guys would battle over the edges we trimmed off. I’m...
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Cakey-Cashew Brownies The first contender in round one of our brownie-weight championship is the cakey brownie—a perennial underdog in the battle of the brownies (with fudgy as the favorite). My version of a cakey brownie uses cashew butter for added moistness and a hint of nutty flavor. They’re really very good and could up the odds. This may not...
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Copitas Latinas means (according to me) ‘little cups of Latino-ness.’ In this case, sweet, ripe plantains glazed with rum and sugar, salty-sweet pepitas (pumpkin seeds) and some vanilla ice cream or froyo. Plantains are eaten verde (green) or maduro (ripe; see photo below). When green, they are usually eaten as a starchy side dish, mashed like...
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Oats, figs and raisins–what could be bad? If you can find it or make it, a scoop of peach ice cream or sorbet would be perfect here. Subbing coconut sugar for brown sugar will give a slightly different look to the finished squares. The squares in the picture above are made with light brown sugar. Makes 16 2 ×2-inch bars 1 cup quick-cooking oatmeal...
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I know strawberries and rhubarb are old friends, but it seems I never see them in the market together. The good rhubarb is gone by the time the good berries come in. This year it’s different, beautiful samples of both were side-by-side at the farmers’ market. That was Monday, we’ll see what Thursday brings. Rhubarb leaves may be pretty, but don’t eat...
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