Broiled Lobster Tail with Browned Butter Sauce

Broiled lobster tail—the quintessential fancy dinner menu item, isn’t it? Unlike whole boiled or steamed lobster, which is almost impossible to eat delicately, with broiled lobster tail the work has already been done for you. The perfectly cooked meat sits atop the lobster’s bright red shell. All you have to do is cut and eat.

Of course this requires a bit more effort on the part of the one preparing the lobster tail. The lobster’s hard shell must be cut open, the meat dislodged from the walls of the shell and pulled out to rest on top before broiling. But in the end, you have a lovely meal that doesn’t require bibs, nutcrackers, or gobs of napkins.

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Recipe: Weeknight Coq au Vin — Recipes from The Kitchn

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These brisk spring days can be really confusing for a cook. On the one hand, we’re psyched for salads and iced coffee, but then there are days, like a few Wednesdays ago, when it’s pouring rain and you’re freezing. Enter my Coq au Vin (chicken stewed in wine).

On that chilly day, I happened to have enough ingredients to pass for a classic Coq au Vin — chicken thighs, dried porcini mushrooms, a red onion, pancetta, and red wine. What I didn’t have was time.

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How Mary Ting Hyatt Makes the Best Bagels in Boston — Maker Tour

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Who: Mary Ting Hyatt
What: Bagelsaurus, a twice-a-week micro bagel-bakery currently selling out of sandwich shop Cutty’s in Brookline
Where: Boston, Massachusetts

Ask Mary Ting Hyatt what makes a good bagel, and she’ll give you a very specific answer: “A shiny, crisp, crackly crust that has great chew, but not necessarily dense.” And she should know — for over a year she tested and tweaked what would become the signature bagel recipe of her mini bagel bakery, Bagelsaurus, which sells (or rather, sells out of) around 500 bagels every Friday and Saturday.

I admit I hadn’t had a good bagel in Boston until I tasted Mary’s bagels, so I was thrilled when she agreed to let me observe her bagel-making process one week. What makes her bagels so good? In short, high-gluten flour, a sourdough starter, and an overnight cold fermentation. Here’s a look at her process:

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