Category: Recipes
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Buttermilk Sweet Potato Ice Cream
At FRANK recently, we did an Americana menu, and needed to conceive an ice cream to go with our bourbon pecan pie. Chef Jennie suggested a sweet potato ice cream, but that just sounded too sweet to me. After all, pecan pie is very sweet, and to pair it with a super-sweet ice cream would…
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Quick Sticky Buns
Over the last few years I’ve migrated away from commercial yeast and toward my sourdough starter. It’s gotten to the point that I don’t even keep yeast around anymore. This means my breads have gotten infinitely better…but also take infinitely longer to bake. There’s no such thing as “quick sourdough” anything. So while I have…
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Rosemary Sourdough Dinner Rolls
Makes about 24 rolls. I’ve been maintaining my sourdough culture for about 2 years now, and I just love the thing. I had always been hesitant to maintain a culture because of how much “work” I assumed it would be…regular feedings, complex calculations. It turns out that sourdough is FAR less picky than its reputation…
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Chocolate Chili Pots de Creme
Makes 6 six-ounce servings, or 8 four-ounce servings. I’ve always been uneasy with the title “Pots de Creme,” probably because it sounds so pretentious. But it’s just French for “cream pot” so I don’t know why it bugs me so much. A pot de creme is a sort of intermediate step between pudding and custard. …
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Sous Vide Scotch Eggs
The Scotch Egg was invented in a pub in London, and it was an intriguing, if crude, concept. A hard boiled egg wrapped in sausage, breaded and fried or baked to a crisp. But hard boiled eggs are truly one of the worst inventions of mankind. Yes, they are a convenient and nutritiously dense snack. …
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Calas (Creole sweet rice fritters)
At our last FRANK, we wanted to serve a few Creole and Cajun classics that would be unfamiliar to the majority of our diners. After all, everyone knows beignets, etouffee, gumbo, jambalaya, and boudin. Calas (pronounced cah-LAHS) turned out to be a perfect option. These lovely little yeast-risen rice fritters were typically eaten at breakfast…