Food Database

Recipes

Simple ways to cook the foods at the top of the list, main dishes built on them, and desserts made without flour or refined sugar.

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The basics

How to cook meat, fish and eggs simply, in a good fat.

Pan-seared steak in tallow 25 min Free preview A thick steak seared in a hot pan with tallow for a deep crust and an even pink center.

Crispy chicken thighs 45 min Bone-in thighs started skin side down in a cold pan, so the skin renders into its own crisp schmaltz.

Roast chicken drumsticks 50 min Sheet-pan drumsticks roasted hot with schmaltz until the skin crackles.

Browned ground beef 14 min How to brown ground beef so it turns crusty and full of flavor instead of gray and steamed.

Beef patties 18 min Juicy beef patties seared in tallow and served without a bun.

Seared lamb chops 28 min Quick pan-seared lamb loin chops with garlic and rosemary.

Baked salmon 22 min Hands-off oven-baked salmon with butter and lemon.

Boiled eggs, soft to hard 19 min Reliable timings for runny, jammy and hard-boiled eggs.

Fried eggs in butter 5 min Tender fried eggs cooked gently in butter, sunny side up or over easy.

Soft scrambled eggs 7 min Creamy, soft-curd scrambled eggs cooked low and slow in butter.

How to render beef tallow 6 hr 20 min Turn raw beef fat into clean, long-keeping tallow for cooking.

How to render schmaltz 2 hr 15 min Render chicken skin and fat into golden schmaltz, with crisp skin bits as a bonus.

Beef bone broth 19 hr 20 min A long-simmered broth from roasted beef bones that sets to a firm jelly when chilled.

Main dishes

Whole meals built on meat, fish, organs and eggs.

Roast chicken with schmaltz 1 hr 45 min Free preview A whole chicken rubbed with schmaltz, with lemon and garlic inside, roasted hot for crisp skin and juicy meat.

Braised beef short ribs 4 hr 30 min Bone-in short ribs seared in tallow and braised slowly in bone broth until they fall off the bone.

Slow-roasted lamb shoulder 4 hr 35 min A bone-in lamb shoulder rubbed with garlic, rosemary and olive oil and roasted low until it pulls apart.

Beef liver and onions 35 min Thin slices of beef liver seared quickly in tallow and served over slow-cooked golden onions.

Butter-basted salmon 17 min Crisp-skinned salmon finished with foaming garlic butter and lemon.

Beef meatballs without breadcrumbs 40 min Tender oven-baked meatballs bound with egg instead of bread.

Beef stew 4 hr 20 min Chunks of chuck braised in bone broth until tender, the sauce thickened by reduction instead of flour.

Shakshuka 35 min Eggs gently poached in a spiced tomato and olive oil sauce.

Chopped chicken liver 1 hr 50 min Chicken livers and deeply browned onions cooked in schmaltz and chopped with hard-boiled eggs.

Beef heart steaks 33 min Trimmed beef heart cut into steaks and seared hot in tallow: lean, with a texture like sirloin.

Crustless cheese quiche 1 hr A creamy baked egg custard with melted cheese and herbs, made without a crust.

Desserts

Made from eggs, dairy and fruit, sweetened with fruit, honey or maple, and never with flour.

Honey panna cotta 6 hr 20 min Free preview A silky set cream sweetened only with honey or maple and scented with vanilla.

Maple cream custards 3 hr 50 min Rich baked custards of cream, egg yolks and pure maple syrup.

Honey baked egg custard 3 hr An old-fashioned milk and egg custard sweetened with honey and topped with nutmeg.

Honey chocolate mousse 2 hr 25 min A light, airy mousse of whipped cream folded into an unsweetened chocolate and honey ganache.

Cottage cheese chocolate mousse 1 hr 10 min A quick, high-protein chocolate mousse blended from cottage cheese, cocoa and honey.

Honey lemon curd 1 hr 20 min A bright, spoonable lemon curd thickened with egg yolks and finished with butter.

Honey vanilla ice cream 8 hr 35 min A classic egg-yolk custard ice cream sweetened entirely with honey.

Honey milk caramel 2 hr 35 min A slow-simmered milk caramel in the style of dulce de leche, made with honey instead of sugar.

Flourless honey chocolate cake 2 hr 13 min A dense, fudgy chocolate cake of butter, eggs, cocoa and honey, with no flour at all.

Honey burnt Basque cheesecake 6 hr 55 min A crustless cheesecake baked hot until the top is deeply caramelized and the center stays creamy.

Crustless ricotta honey cake 7 hr A simple baked ricotta cake with lemon and honey, finished with more honey and cinnamon.

Maple meringues 3 hr 20 min Crisp, melt-in-the-mouth meringues made with egg whites and hot maple syrup, and nothing else.

Fruit juice gummies 2 hr 15 min Chewy gummies made from 100% fruit juice, gelatin and a little honey.

Maple cinnamon baked apples 1 hr 5 min Whole apples baked with butter, maple syrup and cinnamon until soft and syrupy.

Grilled peaches with honey mascarpone 16 min Warm, caramelized peach halves topped with vanilla mascarpone and honey.

Berry frozen yogurt 10 min A no-churn frozen yogurt blended from frozen berries, full-fat yogurt and honey.