Chicken Parmesan
Traditional chicken Parmesan is a minefield of potential problems: dry meat, soggy crust, and a chewy blanket of mozzarella. To keep the meat moist, we salted the cutlets for 20 minutes, and to keep the exterior crunchy, we replaced more than half of the starchy (and consequently sog-prone) bread crumbs with grated Parmesan cheese. […]
Easy Sweet Italian Sausage Patties
For an easy, all-purpose Italian sausage that’s perfect in pasta sauce or on top of a pizza and that’s full of pungency, spice, and personality, we started with coarsely ground pork. Using a stand mixer to combine the pork and seasonings (salt; toasted, crushed fennel seeds; sugar; black and red peppers; and garlic) helped extract […]