MainsChicken Paprikash With Homemade Mlinci
Tender chicken in a sweet paprika and sour cream sauce, spooned over homemade mlinci that catch every last drop.
1 hr 15 minServes 4Medium
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MainsMaryland Crab Cakes
Barely enough binder to hold them together, and an hour in the fridge doing the rest. A crab cake you can taste the breadcrumbs in has already failed.
45 minServes 4Medium
PizzaChicago Deep-Dish Pizza
Cheese on the bottom, sauce on the top, and a crust closer to pastry than to bread. Built upside down for a reason — forty minutes in the oven would incinerate cheese left on the surface.
5 hrServes 6Hard
MainsLamb Chops with Oregano and Lemon
Eight minutes in the pan, and most of the work is standing the chops on their fat edge first. Render that strip properly and the whole dish tastes better.
30 minServes 4Easy
MainsPhilly Cheesesteak
Ribeye shaved almost to transparency and chopped on the griddle as it cooks. Everything about this sandwich is decided in the first two minutes.
40 minServes 4Medium
MainsOven-Baked BBQ Ribs
No smoker, no grill. Four hours in a low oven, wrapped tight, then glazed and blasted — and one small step at the start that most people skip entirely.
4 hr 30 minServes 4Easy
MainsPub Cheeseburger
A thick patty cooked to a blushing middle, which is the opposite of a smash burger in every way that matters. Handle it as little as you can bear.
30 minServes 4Medium
SnacksSloppy Joes
Reduced until it mounds on the spoon rather than running off it. The name promises mess, but a sloppy joe that soaks through the bun before you lift it has been undercooked.
35 minServes 4Easy
PastaLasagne al Forno
Thin layers, restrained sauce and a béchamel made properly. The failure mode is always the same — too much filling, not enough patience, and a slice that slides apart on the plate.
5 hrServes 8Medium
PastaSpaghetti Bolognese
Milk before tomato, white wine rather than red, and three hours at a bare blip. A real ragù is a meat dish loosened with tomato, not a tomato sauce with mince in it.
4 hrServes 6Medium
MainsChicken Fried Steak with Cream Gravy
Beef, not chicken — it takes the name from being fried the way chicken is. Tenderised thin, double-dredged, and served under a gravy made in the same pan.
45 minServes 4Medium
MainsCrispy Whole Roast Duck
Scalded, lacquered and air-dried overnight before it ever sees the oven. The drying is not a flourish — it is the only way the skin turns to glass.
25 hrServes 4Hard