This should be the week for all things heart-y, since Valentine’s Day – or Galentine’s Day for some – is around the corner. So today we include two desserts to sweeten the celebration.
But first, always, requests.
Ann Walldorf’s Wednesday morning thoughts are of meals the Walldorfs have enjoyed and favorite restaurant recipes she’d like to try. She wrote, “Please request recipes for the cauliflower soup at Giardino, Thousand Island dressing at Aubrey’s and the ‘sauce of reduction of balsamic vinegar’ on the involitini at Boccaccia.”
So how about it, you gifted restaurateurs? How do you feel about imitation as the sincerest form of flattery? Will you share your recipes?
Meanwhile, Don Kilo purchased pecans in bulk from Costco, “and now I am hearing that you should soak pecans before you roast them, for health reasons. It looks like a lot of trouble. Could I have the opinions of your readers?”