Secrets of the Best Chefs

½ pound ground veal ½ pound ground chicken livers* 1 sprig of fresh rosemary 1 sprig of fresh sage 2 bay leaves 2-inch rind from ...

pink, breaking it apart with a wooden spoon. With a slotted spoon, transfer the meat to the sauce; add the rosemary, sage, bay l ...

If you’re not going to use them right away, either cover with a damp towel or, for much later use, freeze right on the cookie ...

Garganelli with Speck and Cream ...

Serves 4 This is a bowl of pure decadence: a sauce made of cream infused ...

with speck (a type of smoked prosciutto) and bitter radicchio gets soaked up by fat tubes of homemade garganelli. Making the gar ...

to get those ridges and forming a garganelli. When you reach the top of the diamond, push down tightly to make a seal and slide ...

Cavatappi with Mussels ...

Serves 4 As delicious as mussels are, served by themselves—even with a ...

crusty bread and salad—they never quite fill you up the way you want them to. Enter this pasta. Here, cooked mussels are worked ...

To a pot or a wide skillet with a lid, add a splash of olive oil, the garlic, and the red pepper flakes and turn up the heat. Wh ...

be shy with it. ...

Amanda Cohen Chef-owner, Dirt Candy New York, New York On the floor of her New York City restaurant, Dirt Candy, chef Amanda Coh ...

roast the carrots. The end result is like a multicolored carrot extravaganza, and it’s a function of being resourceful. Answer # ...

Despite the constraints of her tiny kitchen (or maybe because of them), Cohen produces complex, exciting food that’s won her a d ...

“People aren’t as creative as they could be in the kitchen.” ...

Cohen’s Kitchen Know-How IF YOU DON’T have time to make dumpling dough, you can take white sandwich bread, cut off the crusts, f ...

Carrot Dumplings Serves 4 to 6 The first time I made Cohen’s carrot buns, I loved the filling—a vibrant mixture of spice, sweetn ...

TO FINISH THE FILLING 1 teaspoon olive oil 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil 1 teaspoon chopped peeled ginger 1 teaspoon chopped gar ...

In a 9-by-13-inch baking dish, mix together all the ingredients for the carrot filling. Bake for at least 1 hour, stirring every ...