New Yorkers line up outside for meals that have the power to rekindle food memories from childhood. Of course, with the deft hand of chef David Page, they now taste rather grown up. Tater Tots become cornmeal-crusted garlic potato cakes; picnic coleslaw made with celery and celery root accompanies spiced pork chops; blue cheese and apple transform a grilled cheese sandwich; and the ketchup is always homemade.
In this unabashed ode to American home cooking, you'll also find recipes for scalloped potatoes, macaroni and cheese, roast chicken, homemade pickles, chocolate pudding, and cookies "that would make anyone's front porch a neighborhood Mecca" (Gourmet).
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Chapters reach from "The Pantry" (where you'll discover the recipe for their signature Famous Tomato Ketchup) to "The Canning Shelf" (with recipes for Green Tomato-Apple Chutney, Pickled Peppers, and Raspberry Jam). Their Simply Roasted Chicken and Grilled Blue Cheese and Apple Sandwiches will have you running to the kitchen, and Steamer Clams with Local Ale and Lobster Rolls are destined to make an appearance at your next summer shindig. "Something Sweet" wraps things up with Frozen Lemon Icebox Cake with Strawberry Sauce, Chocolate Pudding, and their irresistible Peanut Butter Cookies.
Recipes from Home is sure to become a favorite on many kitchen bookshelves, and even armchair cooks will delight in wasting away a Saturday afternoon thumbing through the anecdotal recipe introductions and generation-spanning black-and-white family photographs featured throughout the book (they've even included a family tree). By the time you get to the recipe for Mom Page's Scalloped Potatoes, you'll feel like you're part of the family. Home sweet home, indeed. --Brad Thomas Parsons
Home cooking is perhaps a culinary paradox. Everyone has memories of Mom's cooking, but not everyone is eager to revisit the dry meatloaf and limp green beans of their youths. With the deft hand of David, the chef, husband, and co-owner with Barbara of Greenwich Village's beloved Home Restaurant, the food you remember from Mom has grown up. Tater Tots have evolved into cornmeal-crusted Garlic Potato Cakes. Iceberg lettuce pales when Warm Frisee Salad with Blue Cheese and Apples is brought to the table. Even crisp skillet-fried chicken gets a lift served with a garlicky olive gravy.
David and Barbara's own cooking has roots in their midwestern upbringings (he's from Wisconsin and she's from Ohio) and the wonderful extended families who shared their stories and their secrets. It stems too from the couple's travels along the backroads and into the cities, farms, and waters of America, where they dallied at fish fries and pork pulls, fireman's picnics and Fourth of July barbecues, and any festival that featured strawberries or oysters. However, nothing taught them more about cooking, they say, than the "simple bounty of the land."
Recipes such as Bay Scallop Chowder with Sweet Cream, Garlic Greens, The Simplest Tomato Salad, Baked Spring Flounder, Lemon-Orange Rice, and Smoked Duck Breasts capitalize on America's rich abundance of seasonal produce and local ingredients and celebrate the essence of real home cooking.
Dozens of treasured photographs of Thanksgiving dinners, backyard barbecues, summers at the shore--photos so recognizable that you'd think they came out of your own family's scrapbooks--accompany more American classics: scalloped potatoes, roast turkey, macaroni and cheese, chocolate pudding, and strawberry shortcake. Nor are good old-fashioned food arts forgotten. You'll find scores of slaws, relishes and pickles, jams and jellies, even homemade sausage, barbecue sauce, mustards, and their Famous Tomato Ketchup (the only kind served at Home Restaurant).
Since 1993, Home Restaurant has attracted an eclectic following of native New Yorkers and homesick out-of-towners who line up outside for meals that have the power to rekindle memories of good cooking, warmth, lively conversation. With Recipes from Home, David and Barbara, the new apostles of home cooking, invite you to come to the table and experience again the flavors and feelings of home.
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