The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

and acidity tomatoes bring to the mix, though I can do without big chunks in the finished dish. ...

grow and grow until it completely covers the sauce, and you’ll probably think to yourself, “I sh ...

Why is it necessary to reduce the wine before adding the stock? Doesn’t all the alcohol b ...

remove it. Which is to say, in order to remove all of the alcohol from a pot, you need to boil it d ...

THE ULTIMATE BOLOGNESE SAUCE NOTES: Pancetta is unsmoked Italian-style bacon. You can use unsmoked American b ...

MAKES ABOUT 2½ QUARTS; SERVES 8 TO 10 4 ounces chicken livers 4 anchovy fillets 1 teaspoon Marmite 1 tables ...

½ cup minced fresh basil ½ cup minced fresh parsley 1 tablespoon Asian fish sauce 2 ounces Parmigiano-Reggi ...

butter, and heat until the foaming subsides. Add the lamb, pork, veal, and sage and co ...

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FRESH PASTA WITH BOLOGNESE SAUCE SERVES 4 5 cups The Ultimate Bolognese Sauce (here) Kosher salt 1 pound ...

Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook until al dente, about ...

FRESH PASTA WITH PORK AND TOMATO RAGÙ NOTE: Pancetta is unsmoked Italian-style bacon. You can use unsmoked ...

3 tablespoons minced fresh rosemary, plus more for serving 2 anchovy fillets, finely chopped 1 teaspoon ...

and bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook until the wine is reduced by half, about 15 ...

{^ BAKED PASTA^ } Here’s something I’ve always wondered: when baking pasta, as in, say, lasagna or baked z ...

But who’s to say that these two phases, water absorption and protein denaturing, have to occur at the same t ...

Macaroni soaked for varying degrees of time. To try it out myself, I placed some macaroni in a bowl of war ...

simply soaked pasta. Think of what this means for lasagna! I know of at least six different common de ...

TRADITIONAL LASAGNA BOLOGNESE The king of meat sauces deserves the mother of all pasta dishes, and this is it. ...

SERVES 6 TO 10 1 package (15 sheets) flat no-boil lasagna noodles 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 tablespoons al ...