Play Me a Recipe

Play Me a Recipe

On Play Me a Recipe, your favorite cooks will walk you through their most treasured recipes, offering all the insider tips, stories, and tricks you won't get from a written recipe—and you'll be right alongside them, every step of the way. If you're cooking along, feel free to pause, jump back, or navigate the steps via the podcast chapters.

Episodes

March 20, 2023 19 min

On Play Me a Recipe, your favorite cooks will walk you through their most treasured recipes, offering all the insider tips, stories, and tricks you won't get from a written recipe—and you'll be right alongside them, every step of the way. 

If you're cooking along, here's the recipe we're making today. Go ahead and grab the ingredients below before starting the episode.

Recipe
Serves 2
 

Peanut chutney

  • 1 cup unsalted, unroasted peanut...
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Listen along as Maurizio Leo makes these buttery, herby rolls with a thin and crunchy crust out of his newest book, The Perfect Loaf.

 

Recipe

Makes 24 mini-rolls
 

Ingredients

  • 342g White flour (~11.5% protein)
  • 147g Durum flour (or whole wheat)
  • 83g Whole milk
  • 54g Unsalted butter
  • 24g Honey
  • 5g Fresh rosemary, chopped
  • 259g Water
  • 9g Fine sea salt
  • 7g Ripe sourdough starter, 100% hydration
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon whole milk or heavy cream (optional)
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    Join pioneering Ayurvedic chef, educator and author Divya Alter, as she cooks her way through a healing soup perfect for these winter months. 

    Recipe
    Serves 4
     

    • 1 cup red lentils, soaked in water for 30 minutes, rinsed well, and drained
    • 1 small celery root, peeled and diced into
    • ¼-inch pieces (about 1 cup)
    • 2 tablespoons ghee or olive oil, divided
    • 1½ teaspoons salt
    • ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
    • ¼ teaspoon ground turmeric
    • 6 fresh curry leaves
    • 1 sma...
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    December 23, 2022 6 min

    Join Chef Farokh Talati as he cooks through Masala Oats, his go-to quick breakfast that brings warmth, tang, and everything else you need for the day ahead from his new cookbook Parsi: From Persia to Bombay: recipes & tales from the ancient culture.

    Recipe
    Serves 4
    For Oats

    • 100g ghee or unsalted butter 
    • 1 small red onion, finely diced 
    • 1 celery stick, finely diced 
    • 1 carrot, peeled and finely diced 
    • 1 large tomato, finely chopped 
    • 2 sma...
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    Rugelach is a beloved Jewish treasure originating from Eastern Europe. The cookie-pastry hybrid can be filled with anything from jam to chocolate and is the perfect two-bite treat fit for any holiday spread. This version, a classic chocolate rugelach bolstered with the flavors of creamy milk chocolate and malted milk powder, has a nostalgic flavor and tender, melt-in-your-mouth texture that will shine at any cookie swap.

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    16 Ru...

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    Oatmeal for so long has left us with full stomachs for the day ahead but also left us with a full sink when we get home. This quick and easy recipe is the perfect hack for making oatmeal fast, with a super easy cleanup, that doesn't skimp on an ounce of flavor.

    Be sure to order your copy of Simply Genius to find this and so many other simply genius recipes

    Recipe
    Serves 1

    • 1/2 cup (50g) old-fashioned rolled oats
    • 1 1/4 cups (300ml) un...
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    Cook along with Jesse Szewczyk to make these crunchy, perfectly spiced, and understated shortbread cookies that are as delicious dunked into hot coffee as they are eaten all on their own.

    Recipe
    Makes 24 bars
     

    Shortbread Base

    • 1 2/3 cups (214g) all-purpose flour
    • 1/3 cup (67g) granulated sugar
    • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
    • 12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks/170g) unsalted butter, melted
    • 1 large egg yolk
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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    November 25, 2022 12 min

    It's time we take stock of whats in our fridge and make some soul-filling stock for the winter with Food52's food editor, Emily Ziemski.

    Stock is endlessly versatile so we're not following a specific recipe for this episode, but here are a few to get you started if you need that extra boost! 

    And here are a couple super useful tools to help you make the best stock possible. 

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    November 18, 2022 23 min

    Listen along as Aleksandra Crapanzano, author of Gateau: The Surprising Simplicity of French Cakes, cooks through a simple-yet-delicious pound cake which can become the foundation for endless variations for any occasion.

    Recipe

    Makes 1 Cake

    • 4 large eggs
    • 1 cup / 200 grams granulated sugar
    • 14 tablespoons unsalted butter
    • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
    • grated zest of one lemon or orange
    • 1 1/2 cups + 1 tablespoon / 200 grams cake flour
    • 1/2 teas...
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    Listen along as Chef Allen Dabagh of New York City's Boutros cooks his way through a favorite fall staple, Crispy Brussel Sprouts with Spiced Almond Butter


    Ingredients 

    • 16 oz freshly ground almond butter
    • 4 oz tahini
    • 16 oz water
    • 3 oz honey
    • 3 oz sesame oil
    • 1 Tablespoon of allspice (ground & toasted)
    • 1 Tablespoon of Aleppo pepper
    • 1 Tablespoon of salt
    • 1 Tablespoon of Cayenne
    • 1 bag of dried cranberries for garnishing the dish
    • Dry Harissa spice ...
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    Perfect, pillowy gnocchi in a luxurious pomodoro sauce is never not a perfect dinner so listen along as Odette Williams cooks her way through this beautiful recipe from Simple Pasta. 

    Find more incredible pasta recipes in a copy of  Simple Pasta 

    If you're cooking along, here's the recipe we're making today. Go ahead and grab the ingredients below before starting the episode.

    Recipe
    Serves 4
    Gnocchi with Luxurious Pomodoro

    • 1 recipe P...
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    Anna Sulan Masing, host of Whetstone Radio's Taste of Place podcast cooks her way through Mandy Yin's incredible Sarawak Chicken recipe

    Recipe

    1. Marinate 6 skinless chicken thighs, with the bone-in just with salt, leave for 1/2hour on the kitchen bench to get it to room temperature
    2. Blitz up spice paste: 200g roughly chopped onion, 2 garlic cloves, 2.5cm of ginger root, 2 stalks of lemongrass also roughly chopped
    3. Toast 1tsp of black p...
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    On Play Me a Recipe, your favorite cooks will walk you through their most treasured recipes, offering all the insider tips, stories, and tricks you won't get from a written recipe—and you'll be right alongside them, every step of the way. 

    If you're cooking along, here's the recipe we're making today. Go ahead and grab the ingredients below before starting the episode.

    Recipe
    Serves 4

    • 4 bone-in pork chops, sliced 1 1/2-inches thick
    • ...
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    October 21, 2022 17 min

    On Play Me a Recipe, your favorite cooks will walk you through their most treasured recipes, offering all the insider tips, stories, and tricks you won't get from a written recipe—and you'll be right alongside them, every step of the way. 

    Recipe
    Serves 6 to 8

    For the roasted tomatoes:

    • 1 ½ pounds ripe cherry or grape tomatoes
    • 6 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
    • 1 teaspoon crushed dried piquín chiles
    • 1 teaspoon dried oregano
    • ½ teaspoon cumin...
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    October 14, 2022 23 min

    On Play Me a Recipe, your favorite cooks will walk you through their most treasured recipes, offering all the insider tips, stories, and tricks you won't get from a written recipe—and you'll be right alongside them, every step of the way. 

    Recipe
    Serves 24

    Cake

    • Unsalted butter or nonstick cooking spray
    • 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
    • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
    • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
    • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
    • 1⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
    • 2 cups...
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    On Play Me a Recipe, your favorite cooks will walk you through their most treasured recipes, offering all the insider tips, stories, and tricks you won't get from a written recipe—and you'll be right alongside them, every step of the way. 

    Recipe: Swordfish tacos
    Serves 4 

    • 1lb swordfish
    • Corn tortillas
    • 1 cup flour
    • ½ cup rice flour
    • ¼ cup potato starch
    • 1 tsp salt
    • 1 cup beer
    • 6 oz vodka
    • Rice bran oil for frying
    • For garnish - Red Cabbage Slaw, P...
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    On Play Me a Recipe, your favorite cooks will walk you through their most treasured recipes, offering all the insider tips, stories, and tricks you won't get from a written recipe—and you'll be right alongside them, every step of the way. Feel free to pause, jump back, or navigate the steps via the podcast chapters (if you're in Apple Podcasts, swipe up on the episode player page—the podcast chapters will be at the bottom).  

    If you...

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    On Play Me a Recipe, your favorite cooks will walk you through their most treasured recipes, offering all the insider tips, stories, and tricks you won't get from a written recipe—and you'll be right alongside them, every step of the way. 

    If you're cooking along, here's the recipe we're making today. Go ahead and grab the ingredients below before starting the episode.

    Recipe
    Serves 4

    • 4 bone-in pork chops, sliced 1 1/2-inches thick
    • ...
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    On Play Me a Recipe, your favorite cooks will walk you through their most treasured recipes, offering all the insider tips, stories, and tricks you won't get from a written recipe—and you'll be right alongside them, every step of the way. 

    If you're cooking along, here's the recipe we're making today. Go ahead and grab the ingredients below (Emma starts listing them at 1:23) before starting the episode.

    Tuna-Avocado Toast

    Serves One

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    September 2, 2022 16 min

    On Play Me a Recipe, your favorite cooks will walk you through their most treasured recipes, offering all the insider tips, stories, and tricks you won't get from a written recipe—and you'll be right alongside them, every step of the way. Feel free to pause, jump back, or navigate the steps via the podcast chapters (if you're in Apple Podcasts, swipe up on the episode player page—the podcast chapters will be at the bottom).  

    If you...

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