Category: Originals

Actually Amazing, Gluten-Free And Vegan Peanut Butter Cheesecake

Vegan desserts are a challenge, but a worthy one. As are gluten-free desserts. But constraints breed creativity. And creativity calls for peanut butter.

We have two couples we like to eat with who have dietary constraints: One’s vegan, the other lactose intolerant. Well, that’s no excuse not to bring food to a cookout.

Inspired by A Saucy Kitchen’s frozen peanut butter cup pie, our peanut butter cheesecake combines the irresistible trio of peanut butter (duh), dark chocolate, and flakey sea salt. No, this is not your average table salt. A light sprinkling of Morton’s flakey sea salt launches any dessert into a new universe of lip-licking-ness.

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Avocado And Blood Orange Salad

Bringing a salad to a cookout or dinner party may seem like a copout, but it’s also a chance to throw a curveball to the palate. Especially if you’re going to be eating a lot of barbecue or other heavy, rich foods, something fresh and tart makes everything else seem brighter in comparison.

Half Alison Roman’s Dining In and half Antoni Porowski from Queer Eye, this salad balances the creaminess of a just-ripe avocado with the dark acidity of blood orange. And yet, most people still don’t understand how the two are a natural pair.

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Matzo Ball Ramen

We conceived this dish while watching the Ivan Orkin episode of Netflix’s Chef’s Table, which profiles a Jewish New Yorker who trained to become one of the best ramen chefs in the world. It got us thinking: What if we combined ramen with one of Jewish cooking’s best known classics?

Traditional matzo ball soup is really just chicken noodleless soup—but because Jews aren’t big on spice, it tends to end up relatively bland. Matzo balls, on the other hand, are magical orbs that take up whatever flavor they cook in. So why not treat them to a better broth bath?

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Guava Cheesecake With Strawberry-Elderflower Sauce

Cheesecake is the best dessert. Fight us.

But too often, cheesecake is bad. Why is it bad? Because it’s far too complicated, far too sweet, and far too dense. Nobody needs that noise.

This is a great cheesecake. It’s simple and creamy, perfectly balancing sweet and tart, looks beautiful, and stars  a combination of flavors you probably haven’t had before. Perfect for a summer dinner party or for eating alone in bed in the morning.

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