Bridget Moloney

I am pleased to announce that this recipe, for all its seeming complexity, can be done with even the most rudimentary barbecue situations. And once I conquered my grilling fear (and the flames stopped leaping), the entire experience was satisfying and ultimately delicious.

As I said, I can whip up a pretty good batch of cuppycakes. But I'm also quite talented at eating them, thinking about them several times a day, and looking at pictures of them on the Internet. So I'm going to share a few of my favorite cupcakes links.

I've been known to whip up a pretty good batch of cuppycakes, and these have joined the ranks of Bridget Moloney's famous baked goods.

This is not a recipe for the faint of heart. It involves death, a lot of money, and a food mill. But after the first taste, it was absolutely worth every effort.

Maybe when the top of my sea salt fell off and the whole bottle poured into the garlic-sage rub for the pork chops, that was the salt's way of telling me it was the wrong choice. Oh well.

Nothing says "summertime" like a barbecue. And nothing says, "my dad would like this" more than a pork chop. Unfortunately both of those things (my father and the barbecue) are in California.

When I think quick, convenient dinner, I think soup from the deli. I do not think homemade Chicken Saltimbocca. I certainly don't think Chicken Saltimbocca made at my sister's apartment in Brooklyn. But that all changed tonight.

I love Hamburgers. My enjoyment of them is contained neither by season nor time of day. When I found out I was going to be cooking a hamburger for BA's Top 100, I jumped for joy. Literally. Jumped up and down.

I have never enjoyed scavenger hunts. I like foot races (even though I have actually never won a single one), and the idea of treasure. But the combination leaves me cold. I mention this only because shopping for my Roasted Asparagus with Fresh Fava Beans and Morels was a downright quest.

New York is famous for many things. Last night I experienced two of them: tiny apartments and cheesecake.