Think of dal as similar in use to gravy-in other words, not a side dish or its own course. It is eaten on rice or with flatbreads, or with dry curries, and vegetables; it is meant as part of a meal.
We make the shells for these tarts with packaged graham cracker crumbs to save time. If your brown sugar contains hard lumps, force it through a sieve before using. Otherwise, it won't dissolve in the...
Soft cushions of country bread soaked with rich custard-there's no better dessert to cozy up with on a chilly autumn evening than this sultry bread pudding, fragrant with warm spices.
This is a dessert you'll make over and over in the fall when interesting apples fill the farmers' market; but the Calvados sauce ensures it even makes out-of-season apples sing.
Anitra Earle of Yonkers, New York, writes: "I'm a perfume detective who hunts down hard-to-find and discontinued scents. One of the benefits of running my business from home is that I get to cook every...