Category: mark bittman

  • Worst. Cookies. Ever.

    Last week, Mark Bittman posted a new recipe for The Mother Of All Butter Cookies. His point was that this recipe was akin to a mother sauce and an easy and flexible base that could be turned into butterscotch cookies, chocolate chip cookies, citrus cookies… Sounds great, huh? Some of you might ask: the Tollhouse…

  • Tandoori or don’t we?

    Tonight Becky and I made Mark Bittman’s Twice Cooked Mock Tandoori Chicken. We’ve previously tried Madhur Jaffrey’s Tandoori Chicken from An Invitation to Indian Cooking (a classic from 1973 with the world’s longest subtitle). What’s new and interesting about Bittman’s version is the cooking method: baking the chicken in the sauce first, and then grilling…