Cornbread Pudding
Serves 6
Short List Runner-Up
In this month’s Short List, we searched high and low for the best version of the ultimate comfort food: fried chicken. Check out our crispy, crunchy “bucket list” here. And just in case you haven’t gotten your fried chicken fix with those three, here is this month’s Short List Runner-Up. It may not be a…
Short List: Fried chicken
My grandma, Bernice, was an old black woman from Georgia and her food just tasted better than everyone else’s, especially her fried chicken. It was immaculate. She would soak the meat in seasoned buttermilk, making it juicy and tender. The crust was thin, crispy and flavorful, and it never slipped from the bone after I…
Choosing the Cover
This month, almost every story was about comfort food – you know, the stuff that warms you up from the inside out. And trust me, we had tons of choices for the cover. Everything from pie to warm crumpets with clotted cream to a risotto made with a truckload of butter. All good choices, but…
Banana-Nutella Macarons
About 15 to 20 cookies
Review: Half & Half in Clayton
Located on the strip of Maryland Avenue that’s seen its fair share of opening and closing signs over the years, Mike Randolph’s casual new breakfast, brunch and lunch spot, Half & Half, whole-heartedly lived up to its name. The bright white board and open kitchen and dining room, contrasted with the bold blue accents of…
Review: Tavern of Fine Arts in St. Louis
Two reasons to like the Tavern of Fine Arts: first, the location. Tucked into a nondescript side street of the DeBaliviere Place neighborhood, Tavern emerged this August as the new kid at school, too cool to care where everyone else was hanging out. Second, the dynamic (and gutsy) concept: Proprietors Matt Daniels and Aaron Johnson,…
Review: Mad Tomato in Clayton
Mad Tomato, 8000 Carondelet Ave., Clayton, 314.932.5733, madtomatostl.com Sam Racanelli is working the pizza oven. It’s right there, off to the side of the bar, open for all to see. If you’re sitting at the bar, preferably sipping the excellent sangria or Negroni, you should chat him up while he punches down dough balls and…
Recipe: Mile 277’s Iron Horse Steak Chili
The chuck wagon has arrived, along with a big ol’ pot of stick-to-your-ribs fare. A hot bowl of this hearty Iron Horse Steak Chili is thick and meaty, with just the right amount of heat to please any modern cowboy – and warm that cowgirl’s heart. Iron Horse Steak ChiliCourtesy of Mile 277’s Jason Tilford…
Clotted Cream
8 Servings or 1 cup
Butternut Squash Risotto
6 servings
Stuffed Acorn Squash
8 servings
Araka’s White Sangria
Approximately 4 quarts
Caramel Topping
1 cup
Not-Too- Sweet Crust
1 9-inch cake
Sausage-less gravy
2 cups
Sheila’s Chocolate Cake
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. • Sift the first 4 ingredients together in a small mixing bowl. • In a double-boiler or microwave, gently heat the chocolate until it’s mostly melted. (The chocolate will continue to melt after it is removed from the heat.) • Stir the butter, eggs and sour cream into the chocolate.…
Biscuits
10
Lemon-Goat Cheese Pudding
12 to 16
Iron Horse Steak Chili
8 to 10 servings
Buttered rum base mix
20 to 24
Sweet, Savory, Scrumptious
Baked, mashed or fried, versatile sweet potatoes yield mighty pleasing eats morning, noon or night. 1. Tater tots with candied jalapeños Inspired by chef Nick Zotos’ sweet potato fries with candied jalapeño rings at Mike Shannon’s Steaks and Seafood, we added the sweet heat of candied jalapeño to tots. First, make the candied jalapeños: Slice…
Biscuits and Gravy
As a kid on a farm in the heart of F-150 country, I had read about vegetarians, but never met them. Like astronauts, or New Yorkers. We ate meat at every meal, including (and especially) breakfast. On crisp fall mornings, biscuits and sausage gravy was The Best. It was hot and savory and substantial. You…
Hey bartender, can you gimme something for my cold?
The arrival of cold and flu season got us wondering: At the onset of cold symptoms, can we nix a trip to the pharmacy in favor of a remedy from the bar? Mindy Kammer of M.D. Pharmacy in University City quickly dismissed any inkling that alcohol could actually cure a cold. She did, however, accede…
Chesterfield’s Best Kept Secret
I’d never heard of Paul Manno’s before being assigned to review it. After asking around, it seemed that people had either never heard of the Italian eatery or had not only heard of it, but raved about it. “You have to get the Nonna’s pasta,” they’d say. “But, it’s not on the menu; you need…
Butter’s Revival: How the kitchen’s most versatile workhorse is making a comeback
For decades, producers marketed margarine as a healthy alternative to butter, tugging on our low-fat-loving heart strings with all the “animal fat is bad, vegetable oil is good” chutzpa they could muster. It worked. Margarine consumption tripled that of butter from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, and many of us Gen-Xers endured soulless imitation…
Chocolate Cake for the Soul
A friend helps you move. A good friend helps you move a body. Last winter, my beloved puppy developed lymphoma. The best option was to euthanize her, which tells you how crummy all of the other options were. When I told my friend Sheila, she said she’d be the designated driver. In my grief, I…
Riddled With Tradition
Editor’s note: As of Nov. 3, 2010, Riddles is closed until further notice. Riddles Penultimate Café and Wine Bar is a great many things to a great many people. For some, it’s a favorite neighborhood restaurant where locally sourced meats and produce have always been a priority. For others, it’s a bar where you can…
