Old-fashioned donuts are humble and unassuming, craggy and cracked. But the addition of a blanket of pink blood orange glaze turns these old-fashioneds into beauty queens. If you’ve never made fried donuts before, this style is a great place to start because the dough comes together a lot like cookie dough. The dough can also be prepared the day before frying if you want to surprise your friends with donuts for breakfast next time you host brunch at your place.
Recipes
Wine-Soaked Peaches with Lemon Verbena
There’s nothing better than eating a perfectly ripe peach, hunched over the kitchen sink, with the juices dripping down your arms. But let’s face it, that perfect peach moment is hard to achieve, even during the height of summer. This recipe makes perfect peaches truly heavenly and the ones that are less so, close to […]
Watermelon Granita with Chile and Lime
In the summer, street vendors all over New York serve watermelon cubes and fresh mangoes sliced into flower shapes, always accompanied by a little condiment bar with salt, chile powder, cayenne, and a bit of bottled citrus juice. This icy granita combines all of those flavors for a sweet, salty, and cooling treat. —Yossy Arefi […]
Easy Cocktail: Anthony’s Don Corleone Negroni
The Negroni is a classic cocktail. If you want to put a whimsical twist on a classic, Anthony DeSerio is your guy. Or, your bartender, if you’re lucky. For this week’s easy cocktail, Anthony mixes up a Negroni suspended in strawberry-rhubarb Jell-O shots set in orange peels. We’re calling it the Don Corleone Negroni, not […]
Carole Peck’s Good News Café Chicken Tagine
Chef Carole Peck, co-owner of the acclaimed Good News Cafe in Woodbury, shares the perfect hearty dish for this time of year, when winter is often still tangible and spring is in the air. It’s Chicken Tagine, a North African dish Carole came to love and perfect while spending time cooking at her house in […]
Fish Stew with Fennel and Baby Potatoes
Inspired by this stew recipe from Bon Appetit, we took a page from Carole Peck’s book and added orange zest and Pernod to give this early-spring soup a decidedly Provençal feel.
