# Amateur Gourmet Funny writing about food since 2004. Page: Feed: --- ## [Five Giant Miso-Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/five-giant-miso-walnut-chocolate) _2026-08-27 · Adam Roberts_ Look out, Levain Bakery. ## [Baking Through the Pantry, Hashing Out the Fridge](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/baking-through-the-pantry-hashing) _2026-08-24 · Adam Roberts_ Clean-Out-the-Cupboard Banana Bread, Anything Goes Vegetable Hash, and Other Moving Stories. ## [The Pots and Pans Worth Keeping](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/the-pots-and-pans-worth-keeping) _2026-08-20 · Adam Roberts_ And the ones worth giving away ## [How to Cook without a Recipe](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/how-to-cook-without-a-recipe) _2026-08-17 · Adam Roberts_ If you don't know what you're doing, act like you do. ## [Beets and Plums and Barley... Oh My!](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/beets-and-plums-and-barley-oh-my) _2026-08-13 · Adam Roberts_ Plus: Great August Recipes, Miso Corn, and a Spontaneous Lemon Loaf Cake. ## [I Know What I Ate This Summer](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/i-know-what-i-ate-this-summer) _2026-08-10 · Adam Roberts_ Tomato salads, lots of ice cream, and not a single lobster roll. ## [We're Moving to Cobble Hill](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/were-moving-to-cobble-hill) _2026-07-31 · Adam Roberts_ Bopping over to one of Brooklyn's most charming neighborhoods. ## [Summer Eating](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/summer-eating) _2026-07-27 · Adam Roberts_ It's giving peaches, it's giving tomatoes, it's giving swordfish. ## [The Leftover Dressing That Glazed My Salmon](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/the-leftover-dressing-that-glazed) _2026-07-21 · Adam Roberts_ In which a tomato-peach salad does double duty ## [A Summer Minestrone That Isn't Mushy](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/a-summer-minestrone-that-isnt-mushy) _2026-07-16 · Adam Roberts_ The secret's in the timing — and the corn cobs ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/djY9r3rZtvzf) _2026-07-16 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [A Weekend in Philadelphia 🔔](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/a-weekend-in-philadelphia) _2026-07-13 · Adam Roberts_ With stops at Suraya, ReAnimator, Pitruco Pizza, The Barnes Museum, Superette, Palizzi Social Club, Le Virtù, and Cleo Bagels ## [Sweetgreen Isn't Good. That Doesn't Mean It's Bad.](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/sweetgreen-isnt-good-that-doesnt) _2026-07-09 · Adam Roberts_ The salads taste like they were made by robots and in some places they actually are. ## [What I Got Wrong About Food](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/what-i-got-wrong-about-food) _2026-07-06 · Adam Roberts_ I spent twenty years cooking like every meal was a celebration. My body has notes. ## [The Five Best Things That I Cooked and Ate in June](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/the-five-best-things-that-i-cooked) _2026-07-02 · Adam Roberts_ From Ottolenghi's Chickpea Confit to Dinner at Eyval ## [Control Your Tempeh](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/control-your-tempeh) _2026-06-29 · Adam Roberts_ My first time cooking with fermented soybean cake ## [The Books That Got Me Through the First Half of 2026](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/the-books-that-got-me-through-the) _2026-06-25 · Adam Roberts_ Including the best book I've read in years and one I absolutely hated (but also loved). ## [Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started Cooking](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/ten-things-i-wish-id-known-before) _2026-06-22 · Adam Roberts_ Lessons in salt, parchment slings, and busting your husband's dish-soaking scheme. ## [Go Ahead, Ask Me Anything](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/go-ahead-ask-me-anything) _2026-06-19 · Adam Roberts_ Instead of writing about dry turkey meatballs (trust me) I'm here to answer all of your questions about cooking, restaurants, novel-writing, Winston, Parkinson's, you name it. ## [Drop Me Into Your Book Club](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/drop-me-into-your-book-club) _2026-06-16 · Adam Roberts_ Pick Food Person for your next read, and I'll Zoom in to dish ## [Eating Healthy Feels Like a Betrayal](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/eating-healthy-feels-like-a-betrayal) _2026-06-15 · Adam Roberts_ But even food writers have to eat to live ## [Non-Custodial Crypto Gateway (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hZrNLkc8zfZv) _2026-06-15 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto, automated fee handling, and trustless escrow with real-time settlement. ## [A Mostly Make-Ahead Dinner Party for Five](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/a-mostly-make-ahead-dinner-party) _2026-06-11 · Adam Roberts_ White Bean Dip, Eggplant Caponata, Slow-Roasted Salmon, and the Fresh Mint Chip Ice Cream That Stole the Show ## [Havreflarn Hobnobs (Or: 3 PM Oat Cookies)](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/havreflarn-hobnobs-or-3-pm-oat-cookies) _2026-06-08 · Adam Roberts_ A winning recipe from Nicola Lamb's Sift for those craving a quick afternoon baking project. ## [Fruit Sludge](https://amateurgourmet.substack.com/p/fruit-sludge) _2026-06-05 · Adam Roberts_ My revolutionary new way of suspending fresh fruit in cooked rhubarb.