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Alexandra Stafford’s Soft Sandwich Bread PureWow 1/28/2021
Sure, you could buy a loaf of sandwich bread and be on your way…but if you’ve never experienced the joy of biting into a fresh, fluffy slice of the homemade version, we highly encourage you to give it a try. Start with Alexandra Stafford’s recipe for soft sandwich bread (from her cookbook,
Alexandra (you can call her Ali) Stafford is best known for her popular food blog, Alexandra s Kitchen. You may also be familiar with her cookbook Bread Toast Crumbs
, cooking tutorials at Alexandra s Kitchen, or her Instagram feed @AlexandraCooks featuring mostly simple, always seasonal, delicious dishes. She recently launched an online cooking class subscription series on Airsubs!
Tarragon Chicken Salad Sandwiches
Chicken salad sounds kind of
meh on paper…but when you jazz it up with homemade tarragon mayonnaise and quick-pickled onions, it’s all we want to eat for lunch. Luckily, Alexandra Stafford’s tarragon chicken salad sandwiches (from her Cookbook,
Bread Toast Crumbs) are easy to make (and they taste better than the best deli sammie).
If you
really want to gild the lily, you can make Ali’s soft sandwich bread to assemble the sandwiches. You could bake it a day ahead and enjoy it all week or you could use store-bought bread and call it a day. We won’t judge.
January 22, 2021
“Chaat: Recipes from the Kitchens, Markets and Railways of India,” by Maneet Chauhan and Jody Eddy. MUST CREDIT: Clarkson Potter Publishers. (Clarkson Potter Publishers) via The Washington Post Syndicated Service
On a gray afternoon last November, I sat down to a meal that evoked Istanbul cafes where just the year before I had feasted at the edge of the sun-streaked Bosporus. Dried sumac speckled a plate of shaved radishes and fennel, and the main course was lamb ragout, ladled over satiny eggplant puree. It was Thanksgiving dinner, 2020.
After canceling a planned gathering for pandemic-obvious reasons, I ignored suggestions for wan, scaled-down menus featuring chicken legs and miniature pie for two. Instead I reached for a Turkish cookbook, trading holiday traditions for a culinary voyage.