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  • Guinness Gingerbread Ice Cream

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    Ingredients 2 cups heavy cream 1 cup whole milk 1 tsp salt 3 egg yolks 1 cup sugar 1 cup Guinness stout ¼ cup molasses 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 cinnamon sticks 2 whole star anise 1 tsp black peppercorns ½ tsp red pepper flakes 2 tsp ground ginger 1 tsp ground cinnamon ½ cup […]

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  • Chicken Fricassee, Cacciatora Style

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    Cacciatora means hunter’s style, and since there has always been a hunter in nearly every Italian household, every Italian cook prepares a dish with a claim to that description. Making generous allowances for the uncounted permutations in the dishes that go by the cacciatora name, what they generally consist of is a chicken or rabbit fricassee […]

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  • Focaccia with Onions, Genoese Style

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    The dough in the recipe given here produces a thick, tender focaccia with a crisp surface, which you can top with sautéed onion in the Genoese style, as described below, or vary in one of the alternative ways indicated, or devise a suitable variation of your own. – Marcella Hazan Ingredients For the dough 1 package […]

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  • Diplomatico — A Chocolate Dessert with Rum and Coffee

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    Is There any other dessert like diplomatico, I wonder, that rewards such little effort with such gratifying results? You never even have to turn on the oven because you utilize ready-made pound cake. Slices of rum- and coffee-soaked cake are alternated with a simple mousse-like mixture of melted chocolate and eggs, and basically that is […]

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  • Pizza con Potate e Rosmarino

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    Potato Pizza, Even Better by Smittenkitchen Adapted from Jim Lahey’s My Bread Notes A tiny bit more context: Potato pizza is one kind the pizza al taglio that is considered daytime pizza in Rome, baked in electric ovens in large rectangular or oblong shapes, cut with scissors to the size you desire, and sold by […]

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  • Jim Lahey’s Basic Pizza Dough

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    Note This is halved and modified slightly. Ingredients 2 cups minus 1 tablespoon (250 grams) all-purpose or bread flour 1 1/4 teaspoons (5 grams) instant or active dry yeast A heaped 1/4 teaspoon fine sea or table salt A heaped 1/4 teaspoon granulated sugar 2/3 cups (150 grams) room temperature water Instructions In a medium […]

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  • Orecchiette

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    Orecchiette are small hand made pasta sometimes called “Puglian gnocchi.” They fit into the category of pasta court, or short pasta, but have the texture of handmade dumplings. The old women in Bari Vecchio produce these dumplings, by hand, at an impressive speed; watching them is amazing. Sometimes the dough will be made with semolina and regular […]

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  • Orecchiette with Rabbit Sausage and Padrón Peppers

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    Fresh orecchiette (translated as “little ears”) is a thing to behold, a taste that most people have never experienced. If any fresh pasta speaks to the importance of texture, especially when compared to lesser storebought versions, it’s orecchiette. The value of this pasta is found in its stretch marks, the hallmark of any hand-made orecchiette. […]

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  • Crespelle

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    Ingredients The Batter 1 cup milk ¾ cup all-purpose flour 2 eggs ⅛ teaspoon salt For Cooking the Crespelle 1 to 1 ½ tablespoons butter An 8-inch nonstick skillet Instructions Put the milk in a bowl and add the flour gradually, sifting it through a sieve if possible, while you mix steadily with a fork […]

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  • Baked Crespelle with Spinach, Prosciutto, and Parmesan Filling

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    Ingredients Crespelle (thin pancakes), produced with the recipe on page 267 1 pound fresh spinach OR 1 ten-ounce package frozen leaf spinach, thawed Béchamel Sauce, prepared as directed on page 39, using 2 cups milk, 4 tablespoons (½ stick) butter, 3 tablespoons flour, and ¼ teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon butter plus more for greasing and […]

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