Recipes

How To Dip Without Breaking The Chip

NPR Staff — Sun, 05 May 2013 12:43:01 +0000

The Mexican army's May 5 victory in 1862's Battle of Puebla is a pretty small holiday in Mexico. But in the U.S., Cinco de Mayo has grown into a kind of Mexican St. Patrick's Day.

This Little Piggy Cookie Is A Sweet Mexican Find

Thu, 02 May 2013 19:32:00 +0000

Mexican Piggy Cookies are known by many names — cerditos, cochinitos, marranitos or puerquitos. Sweetened with unprocessed cane sugar and honey, and spiced with cinnamon, the cutout cookies puff when you bake them.

A few years ago, Mexico-born chef Pati Jinich had never heard of them. But after numerous recipe requests and a chance encounter with the cookies in her home country, they've become a family favorite.

Prepare To Get Hot And Heavy With This Chicken Recipe

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:46:00 +0000

If you've got a chicken, two cast iron skillets and are feeling strong, Jay Bentley has a recipe for you: Cast Iron Roasted Half Chicken. The Montana restaurateur and co-author of Open Range: Steaks, Chops and More From Big Sky Country shared it for All Things Considered's Found Recipe series.

The dish isn't so much a "found recipe," but a found technique. And an added bonus?

A 'Charleston Kitchen' Full Of Foraged And Forgotten Foods

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:10:00 +0000

A new cookbook by the Lee brothers just might inspire daydreams of a food-centric vacation to South Carolina. It's called The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen, and in it, Matt and Ted Lee feature recipes and stories from the Southern port city they grew up in. The brothers joined NPR's Melissa Block to talk about Charleston's distinctive food culture, starting with the dishes that they'd put on a typical Charleston menu.

"I would start with kumquat sparklers, with the flavor of backyard kumquats, which are like tangerines," Matt says.

Junior League Cookbooks: Crowdsourced Recipes, Old-School Style

Lydia Zuraw — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:03:00 +0000

The Masters Tournament — you think golf, we think food.

Well, now we think food because this week we were tipped off to a cookbook created for the storied tournament in Augusta, Ga.

The Junior League of Augusta, a women's volunteer and civic organization, published Tea-Time at the Masters back in 1977, but it's still in print.

The initial printing of 10,000 sold out within four weeks.