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Boardwalk Fries with Cider Vinegar, Cut from Whole Potatoes and Fried Twice
Whole russets cut into batons, fried once to cook them through and once more to set the crust, salted while they are still dripping and doused from a vinegar shaker into a paper cup.
- Total
- 1 hr 30 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 700 per serving
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Breakfast Tacos on Flour Tortillas
Flour tortillas rolled thin, cooked dry in a hot skillet, and filled from the same pan with potatoes, chorizo and soft eggs — the argument is the tortilla, and the tortilla is northern.
- Total
- 1 hr 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 735 per serving
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Corn Chowder
The stripped cobs boiled for twenty minutes to make the broth, salt pork and onion for the fat, and no flour anywhere — the chowder of the towns that had no clams.
- Total
- 1 hr 5 min
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 350 per serving
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Dutch-Oven Chuckwagon Beans
A pound of pinto beans soaked overnight, thrown into fresh water with salt pork and dried chile, and left in a low oven under a lid until the pot liquor thickens by itself.
- Total
- 3 hr 35 min, plus overnight soaking
- Serves
- 8
- Calories
- 335 per serving
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Iowa Chop
A centre-cut pork loin chop an inch and a half thick, brined, seared hard and finished in the oven in the same pan it browned in.
- Total
- 2 hr 30 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 520 per serving
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New England Boiled Dinner
Corned beef simmered until it gives, then the root vegetables cooked in its broth in the order they take to soften, and the beets kept out of the pot so the dinner stays its own colour.
- Total
- 4 hr 30 min
- Serves
- 8
- Calories
- 560 per serving
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Pan-Fried White River Trout
A whole pan-dressed trout in white cornmeal, fried hard in lard in one skillet and turned once — the fish a federal dam put in an Arkansas river that never had one.
- Total
- 40 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 445 per serving
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Hoppin' John, Cooked in the Pea Liquor
Red peas simmered with bacon until the water turns to broth, then the same pot measured out to steam a cup of rice in it, one grain at a time.
- Total
- 1 hr 45 min
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 340 per serving
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Ramps with Fried Potatoes
Potatoes fried hard in bacon fat in one skillet, with ramp bulbs going in near the end and the leaves barely a minute before it leaves the stove.
- Total
- 50 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 275 per serving
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Savannah Red Rice
Long-grain rice cooked in tomato fried down in bacon fat until it darkens, then steamed until every grain is separate and stained through.
- Total
- 1 hr 5 min
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 410 per serving
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Tater Tot Hotdish
Browned beef and a can of condensed soup under a single close-packed layer of frozen potato tots, baked uncovered until the top is gold and the underneath is bubbling at the edges.
- Total
- 1 hr 25 min
- Serves
- 8
- Calories
- 610 per serving
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Garlic Butter Shrimp Scampi with Orzo
Shrimp in a lemon-garlic butter sauce, with orzo cooked in the same pan. One skillet, twenty-five minutes, no pasta pot.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 610 per serving
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New England Clam Chowder
Clams steamed open in the pot the chowder is built in, salt pork rendered in the same pot, and milk that never comes to a boil.
- Total
- 1 hr 15 min
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 425 per serving
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Skillet Chicken Thighs with Lemon and Olives
Bone-in thighs roasted on top of potatoes so the skin crisps in the oven while the fat runs down into everything underneath.
- Total
- 50 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 624 per serving