To many Italian-Americans, “gravy” means tomato sauce cooked all day with various types of meats. Flavors mingle, meat falls apart, herbs kick in, and you’ve got a world-class Sunday pasta dinner. Chicken with Red Gravy riffs off that beloved tomato-wine sauce. But with chicken thighs rather than red meat, it cooks faster, tastes lighter, and soaks beautifully into quick-cooking polenta or couscous. So you can treat your family or guests to the joys of red gravy whenever the mood hits you. But is it Italian or French? When I gave this recipe (which I adapted from The Boston Globe) to my sister-in-law Chris, she exclaimed, “It’s ‘Meal A’!” I had forgotten that her go-to…
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Quick Chocolate Cookies
These chewy, fudgy Quick Chocolate Cookies have the fabulous glossy shine you get from egg whites—and yet they have no eggs at all. No eggs to beat, and as a bonus, no fat or sugar to cream. Behold a shockingly short ingredient list. So yes, these cookies live up to their name. What’s the trick? One miraculous ingredient: sweetened condensed milk. The same creamy secret to our Caramel Custard Flan and Better-Than-Bailey’s Irish Cream can also double as an egg substitute. Its thickness creates body, and its caramelization punches up flavor as only that marvelous Maillard reaction can do. Okay, if there are no eggs, no butter or oil, no added sugar, no flour,…
