If winter citrus is part of your life, make the most of it with this extremely simple olive oil cake recipe. Whether it’s Cara Cara, Blood, or Mandarin oranges, grapefruit, or Meyer lemon, this cake works with the flavor of the citrus fruits for a pantry-friendly snacking cake that brings brightness to dreary days. It also looks beautiful, thanks to the supremed citrus on top becoming caramelized and getting jammy. This requires no frosting, not even a dusting of powdered sugar, because the fruit itself acts as all the texture, contrast, and acidic sweetness you need.
Making this cake begins…
Mustard is a truly superlative foodstuff, managing to embody humble diligence as easily as it can seem celebratory and luxurious, depending on whether it’s spread on toast or sitting next to the cranberry sauce and gravy. Either way: necessary. Non-negotiable, even. Making mustard from scratch — essentially, pickling mustard seeds — might seem overzealous when there’s perfectly good stuff at the supermarket, but it’s the work of minutes and tastes glorious: zingy, intense, each vinegar-swollen seed popping with flavor. Your future scrambles, sandwiches, roasts, marinades, sauces, soups, and pastas will be all the better for this mustard. …
In my country, and perhaps yours too, there is a societal tradition where large numbers of its youth leave their family home for work or university after finishing high school, and move into a house — often cold, damp, miles away, and with several strangers — where hijinks will inevitably ensue. During my time in such a dwelling, a simple and affordable comfort was instant mashed potato, usually eaten from a coffee mug, with as much butter as I could force each reconstituted potato flake to absorb. …
Want a cocktail veganized? Bought a bottle of something and don’t know what to do with it? Need a cool mocktail? Want to make your own liqueur? We’ll drink to that. Bartenderly is here to make all your vegan drinking dreams come true. If you want to check on whether a specific brand of alcohol is vegan, I recommend Barnivore.
Here’s a drink to toast the monumentally exhausting year that just closed. This One-Two Punch recipe is so named because it’s equally serviceable for one or for many, with or without alcohol, as a seasonal cheer-bringer or as a Valentine’s…
Whether your Christmas this year will be spent with family, chosen family, whoever’s in your bubble, or in a more compact, cozy fashion with just yourself — everyone deserves a showstopper dessert. I know it seems outlandish to suggest making this for one person, but hear me out: eat it for breakfast, perhaps while watching comforting films or face-timing loved ones, enjoy a sugar-induced nap, rustle yourself up something savoury later on and finally reward yourself with more meringue wreath for dessert.
If you’re serving this beauty to a crowd you can be assured of their appreciative gasps — not…
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This past weekend was St. Lucia Day, a Swedish holiday meant to bring about hope and light during the darkest time of the year. During a year that has been so difficult and unforgiving, this day was a reminder for me that it is possible to hold two things at once; to hold grief and hope and see that both are important and true.
To honor the holiday, I veganized this recipe for St. Lucia buns — a delicious, lightly sweet saffron bun—with the help of…
Hi Tenderly pals!
Just wanted to start off by saying how grateful I am that you (yes, you!) are here and decided to open this newsletter and check out some things from Tenderly and beyond this week. Putting together this newsletter has been a bright spot for me lately, so I’m thankful for your interest and support!
From tofu pie to a delicious gift guide to stunning nature photos, here’s what I recommend checking out this week:
My personal favorite salad dressing is a very thick Balsamic served at Delfiore Pizza & Food Co. in my hometown of Patchogue, New York. I could never quite figure out how they did it, and my mother insisted eggs must have been involved to get it quite so viscous, but I was not convinced. This dressing had to be possible with just olive oil, vinegar, and some additional flavorings. It took me until the desperate homesickness of the pandemic to do it on a whim, but it worked — because I used my immersion blender.
Asweet fruit curd is a versatile and delicious way to preserve citrus and other acidic ingredients. They are wonderful when filling up a shortbread tart, filling a layer cake, or simply topping a one-layer snacking cake. The great thing about making a vegan curd is that you don’t have to worry about tempering eggs, because here we use starch instead, meaning you spend very little time working over the stove and more time simply whisking it up.
I have made a passion fruit curd because my upstairs neighbor recently came home with a bucket full of them. The tree at…
The Aquafaba Files is a Tenderly recipe series by Laura Vincent, exploring the almost suspicious versatility of this ingredient that is little more than the leftover liquid from a drained can of chickpeas.
Despite the length of the ingredients list and instructions, these churros are quite simple. They’re mostly flour and water, and there is as much preparing to cook as there is actual cooking.
Churros are a fried delicacy traditional to Spain and Portugal, eaten throughout much of South America and parts of North America [Editor’s shoutout to the NYC subway station churro vendors], but as a New Zealander…
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