Recipes

Curried Sausage Buns

by Jillian Bedell February 12, 2013

The first thing you should know about these sausage buns is that they contain zero sausage. No pork whatsoever. Sin salchicha. Totally Kosh. I’m not really sure that they qualify as buns, either. But “beef puff pastry” sounded both gross and overly alliterative. You could refer to them as meat tubes, perhaps even more accurate [...]

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8 Romantic Dishes to Cook at Home for Your Valentine

by Malcolm Bedell February 11, 2013

We can already hear the protests from the more cynical among you. Valentine’s Day is a big hoodwink, you’ll say, a made-up holiday created by the greeting card companies to sell more pink teddy bears and chalky heart-shaped boxes of chocolate. Like New Year’s Eve, you’ll explain, the buildup can never live up to the [...]

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Calabrese-Style Rigatoni with Spicy Pork Ragu

by Jillian Bedell February 8, 2013

Once upon a time in Brooklyn, there was an Italian restaurant called Sam’s. This was old-school, red sauce Brooklyn, and Sam’s was the flickering candle of an era that was then beginning to end. Chianti bottles on every table, salamis hanging from the ceiling, broken English immigrants eating family meal in a dim back room. [...]

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How to Make Chicken Liver Pâté

by Malcolm Bedell February 7, 2013

Rendered duck fat gets a lot of play here in Maine, and for good reason. There are few better fats that you can use for frying impossibly rich, golden brown potatoes (just ask the good folks at Portland’s Duckfat), but it’s also fantastic in pie crusts or rubbed on the outside of a chicken prior [...]

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Two Ingredient Banana Pancakes (Gluten & Dairy Free)

by Malcolm Bedell February 6, 2013

We probably spend more time sifting through Pinterest boards than most people, looking for inspiring new ideas to tackle here on From Away. Most of the time, paying attention to Pinterest is a great way to gauge reader interest in different cooking topics, and find out what types of posts home cooks are most interested [...]

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Candied Lemon Cake with Vanilla Icing

by Jillian Bedell February 5, 2013

I am very, very pleased with how this cake turned out. It is bright, sweet, sticky, and so pretty. A most ladylike cake. It’s a good thing I never, ever defenestrate cakes any more. It all started on my twenty-first birthday. Malcolm and I had been dating for two months. I, naturally, had never had [...]

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Shrimp and Grits

by Jillian Bedell February 4, 2013

New Orleans is one of those cities you feel like you know, and love, even if you’ve never been. It’s storied, romantic, mythic, Gothic, strange, and beautiful. I’ve only visited a couple of times for a couple of days. Once, for my 25th birthday, a trip we will not discuss, and once on business. And [...]

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From Away on Today!

by Jillian Bedell February 1, 2013

[Ed note: This morning on the Today Show, Malcolm won the wing cookoff judged by Food Network personality Sunny Anderson with his Apricot-Shellacked Ghost Chile Chicken Wings. I think the recipe is worth re-posting. You can view the original recipe here. And I want to officially congratulate Malcolm on the win. Go Team!]

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8 Small Plates for Your Superbowl Party

by Malcolm Bedell January 31, 2013

Watching the Superbowl presents a unique opportunity to watch two seasoned, strategic Generals sending their soldiers into a symbolic gridiron battle, where each army must defend his home territory from hordes of massive 350 pound invaders, a battle whose outcome is determined not just by the strength of the individual players, but by the size [...]

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Walnut Oatmeal Cookies with Maple Sugar Glaze

by Jillian Bedell January 29, 2013

Oatmeal cookies are different. A form of comfort unlike chocolate chip or sugar. They are irregular, dependable. You can put one in your pocket to save for later. You feel more than justified in eating them for breakfast, which is exactly what I did this morning. We needed something gentle and good, hearty and sweet. [...]

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