BakingBalkan Flatbread (Lepinja)
Soft, thick Balkan flatbreads with a lightly crisp crust, made for tearing apart and soaking up sauces.
2 hrServes 4Easy
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MainsMaryland Crab Cakes
Barely enough binder to hold them together, and an hour in the fridge doing the rest. A crab cake you can taste the breadcrumbs in has already failed.
45 minServes 4Medium
PizzaChicago Deep-Dish Pizza
Cheese on the bottom, sauce on the top, and a crust closer to pastry than to bread. Built upside down for a reason — forty minutes in the oven would incinerate cheese left on the surface.
5 hrServes 6Hard
SnacksHomemade Chicken Nuggets
Minced chicken rather than chopped, which is what gives the smooth bite of the ones from a box — except you can see everything that went in.
50 minServes 4Easy
BakingBlueberry Muffins
Mixed until barely combined and baked hot to start, which is what throws up the high domed top. A smooth muffin batter is a failed muffin batter.
45 minServes 12Easy
BakingCroissants
Two days, three folds, and one rule that governs all of it: butter and dough must stay the same softness. Everything that goes wrong with croissants goes wrong there.
15 hrServes 12Hard
MainsSlow-Roast Lamb Shoulder with Garlic and Rosemary
Four hours at a low temperature and almost no attention. Shoulder has too much connective tissue to cook quickly, which is exactly why it rewards leaving alone.
4 hr 50 minServes 6Easy
SaladsGreek Village Salad (Horiatiki)
No lettuce — a real horiatiki never has any. Chunky tomato, cucumber and pepper under a whole slab of feta, with nothing but oil and oregano.
15 minServes 4Easy
PizzaNew York-Style Pepperoni Pizza
A larger, thinner, foldable slice with a cooked sauce and low-moisture mozzarella. Use cup-and-char pepperoni and it curls into little pools of paprika oil.
26 hrServes 4Medium
PizzaNeapolitan Margherita Pizza
A 24-hour cold-fermented dough, uncooked tomato sauce, and the hottest oven you own. Three toppings, and every one of them has to be good.
25 hrServes 4Hard
BreakfastSkillet Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Mayonnaise on the outside instead of butter, and a lid on the pan. One browns more evenly, the other melts the cheese before the bread burns.
15 minServes 2Easy
BreakfastThick-Cut French Toast
Day-old bread, cut thick, soaked properly rather than dipped. Stale bread is not a compromise here — fresh bread turns to mush in the custard.
25 minServes 4Easy