This dessert is a great example of how dumb I was as a child. I hated blueberries growing up. Maybe it was the sad blandness of cooked frozen blueberries in mediocre pancakes and muffins. Or maybe I never had a really good fresh blueberry before. Either way, until recently blueberries were avoided. I thought they were ...
Steak Salad with Blue Cheese and Pickled Red Onion
This recipe is a ménage à trois of dominant flavors coming together in orgasmic harmony. The creamy funk of blue cheese with the bright tang of pickled red onions are the perfect accompaniments to a well seasoned, juicy steak. In fact you can combine any two of these three components for something delicious, but together you get ...
Anchovy Pizza
I love anchovy filets. They are salty succulent delicate little strips of magic. I love them so much that my first dinner after 5 weeks of veganism was anchovy carbonara. I could have had anything! Tacos, a burger, steak, fish and chips, a giant wedge of cheese, a gallon of heavy cream, but I went ...
Italian Sponge Cake with Lemon Custard
WARNING: This is the first cake I've ever baked so for all you bakers out there who see my mistakes, shhhhh it still tastes great.From ages 5-13 my favorite dessert was Italian sponge cake. Not chocolate cake or brownies. Not pumpkin pie. Not cinnamon rolls. Extremely simple white cake, whipped cream, a little custard, and ...
Braised Short Rib Pasta
Braised meat is bomb. There is nothing more tender or better at serving up saucy goodness. But, I don't want to focus on what you guys already know, so let's talk about (braised) meat sauce. We're all familiar with Bolognese and this recipe is really a slightly more complex variation of that classic, at least ...
Tomato Sauce with Pancetta and Shallot
For Style and Cheek's first recipe post I decided to go with something incredibly basic that you can build on for future recipes: tomato sauce. There are a TON of different (and delicious) ways to make tomato sauce, ranging from a simple "quick" sauce with 4 ingredients to a complex braised meat "Sunday gravy".Today I'm going ...