Kitchen Epiphanies

KITCHEN epiphanies

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Spumoni Ice Cream Cake

This easy, make-ahead Spumoni Ice Cream Cake turns the classic Italian-American trio of cherry, pistachio, and chocolate into a striking frozen dessert with a crisp chocolate cookie base and stabilized whipped cream frosting. It was inspired by a sudden memory of the first time I tasted spumoni in college, at a student dinner hosted by […]

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Crispy Potato Pancakes — a New Twist on an Old Classic

In our household, December meals are not usually vegetarian. But this year I included a dinner of Crispy Potato Pancakes with roasted carrots, labneh, and hot honey, inspired by Samin Nosrat’s recent podcast of Home Cooking, where she answered a question from a listener seeking advice on how to use four gallons of honey. Samin, a honey enthusiast, excitedly

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