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NATIONAL TACO DAY: FOUR DELICIOUS WAYS TO CELEBRATE AT HOME

NATIONAL TACO DAY: FOUR DELICIOUS WAYS TO CELEBRATE AT HOME

This Tuesday, the tortillas are doing overtime. National Taco Day falls on Tuesday, October 6, this year. If you remember celebrating it on October 4, your memory is perfectly sound. In 2024, the celebration moved to the first Tuesday in October, bringing it into permanent…

Big Cooking: Three Generous and Delicious Dishes to Cook Up When Friends and Family Meet Up

Big Cooking: Three Generous and Delicious Dishes to Cook Up When Friends and Family Meet Up

The Following is a Sponsored Post paid for by Bazoom Publications Feeding a large group is easier when you choose dishes that are simple to prepare, easy to serve and full of familiar flavors. Thinking about what tastes delicious, is easy to prepare for larger…

Elizabeth Karmel’s Grandmother Odom’s Apple Cake

Elizabeth Karmel’s Grandmother Odom’s Apple Cake

If you love apples, you will not believe how much you will love this wonderful cake. Apple picking season is in full swing out here on the East End of Long Island. It’s astonishing what a draw it is.  The traffic on weekends approaches that…

BAKED BAY SCALLOPS WITH HOT-SAUCE BUTTER, PARMESAN AND CROUTONS.

BAKED BAY SCALLOPS WITH HOT-SAUCE BUTTER, PARMESAN AND CROUTONS.

Fifteen years after creating this recipe, I rediscovered an unforgettable combination of tender bay scallops, bubbling butter, Parmesan and crisp country-bread croutons. After nearly fifteen years and hundreds of recipes on Chewing the Fat, you would think I might remember all the particularly good ones.…

PORK CHOPS WITH APPLES AND BACON

PORK CHOPS WITH APPLES AND BACON

It’s Sweater Weather! And along comes this 30-minute recipe for Pork Chops with Apples and Bacon The first cool evenings make me want apples in something other than dessert. These pork chops answer the call beautifully: thick-cut chops, smoky bacon, shallots and two kinds of…

ARE WE USING ALUMINUM FOIL WRONG?

ARE WE USING ALUMINUM FOIL WRONG?

A Chewing The Fat audit reveals when foil works beautifully—and when parchment, glass or a bare metal pan does the job better. A Chewing The Fat Audit of Our Own Recipes Aluminum foil may be the most unquestioned object in the American kitchen. We wrap…

THE ORIGINAL PLUM TORTE: THE NEW YORK TIMES RECIPE THAT WON’T GO AWAY

THE ORIGINAL PLUM TORTE: THE NEW YORK TIMES RECIPE THAT WON’T GO AWAY

Marian Burros’s famous plum torte became the most requested recipe in The New York Times. One look at the superb late-summer plums at Halsey Farm stand told us it was time to make it again. There are certain fruits that make you stop at a…

GREEK SALAD WITH SARDINES AND BEANS: FROM ATHENS TO LISBON ON ONE PLATE

GREEK SALAD WITH SARDINES AND BEANS: FROM ATHENS TO LISBON ON ONE PLATE

Ali Slagle’s main-dish Greek salad gave me the perfect reason to open a tin of sardines brought home from a very special wedding in Sintra. She had me at Greek salad. But when I opened a recent New York Times Cooking email and discovered that…

THE TOMATO SANDWICH: BEST EATEN OVER THE SINK

THE TOMATO SANDWICH: BEST EATEN OVER THE SINK

Some foods require a beautifully set table. This classic tomato sandwich recipe requires a kitchen sink. Lee Bailey understood this better than anyone. “Roll up your sleeves, and commence to eat over the kitchen sink while the juice runs down your elbows.” Lee was a…

TOMATO, BEET AND BURRATA SALAD: A LITTLE TRIP TO ITALY

TOMATO, BEET AND BURRATA SALAD: A LITTLE TRIP TO ITALY

Three ingredients at their summer best, brought together with basil and a very simple balsamic dressing create this wonderful Tomato, Beet and Burrata Salad. The tomatoes that set all of this in motion came from our friends Amy and Richard and their daughter Camille, who…

LEMON CURD CHEESECAKE WITH BLUEBERRIES

LEMON CURD CHEESECAKE WITH BLUEBERRIES

Dorie Greenspan’s cheesecake is topped with glossy lemon curd and the first local blueberries of the season. This lemon curd cheesecake with fresh blueberries is Andrew’s spectacular way of welcoming the first local fruit of summer. Inspired by Dorie Greenspan, it combines a citrus-scented cheesecake,…

IT’S NATIONAL CHICKEN WING DAY—AND WE HAVE NINE WAYS TO CELEBRATE

IT’S NATIONAL CHICKEN WING DAY—AND WE HAVE NINE WAYS TO CELEBRATE

From Buffalo’s original hot wings to lemon-pepper, Korean and garlic-Parmesan versions, Chewing The Fat has a wing for practically everyone. I love chicken wings. Crispy, sticky, spicy, sweet or showered with Parmesan, they are one of those rare foods equally at home at a summer…


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NATIONAL TACO DAY: FOUR DELICIOUS WAYS TO CELEBRATE AT HOME

NATIONAL TACO DAY: FOUR DELICIOUS WAYS TO CELEBRATE AT HOME

This Tuesday, the tortillas are doing overtime. National Taco Day falls on Tuesday, October 6, this year. If you remember celebrating it on October 4, your memory is perfectly sound. In 2024, the celebration moved to the first Tuesday in October, bringing it into permanent…

BAKED BAY SCALLOPS WITH HOT-SAUCE BUTTER, PARMESAN AND CROUTONS.

BAKED BAY SCALLOPS WITH HOT-SAUCE BUTTER, PARMESAN AND CROUTONS.

Fifteen years after creating this recipe, I rediscovered an unforgettable combination of tender bay scallops, bubbling butter, Parmesan and crisp country-bread croutons. After nearly fifteen years and hundreds of recipes on Chewing the Fat, you would think I might remember all the particularly good ones.…

LEMON CURD CHEESECAKE WITH BLUEBERRIES

LEMON CURD CHEESECAKE WITH BLUEBERRIES

Dorie Greenspan’s cheesecake is topped with glossy lemon curd and the first local blueberries of the season. This lemon curd cheesecake with fresh blueberries is Andrew’s spectacular way of welcoming the first local fruit of summer. Inspired by Dorie Greenspan, it combines a citrus-scented cheesecake,…


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