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• Preheat your oven to 400°F [200°C]. In a baking dish, combine the blueberries with 2 Tbsp of the brown sugar and stir to mix. Roast, pulling the baking dish out of the oven a few times to stir the berries, until their skins burst and they have released lots of juice, about 20 minutes. Using a fork or a potato masher, crush the berries a bit so that...
• THE ROASTED FRUIT TOPPING IS VERY VERSATILE; serve it over ice cream for dessert, on toast spread with ricotta for breakfast, or on waffles for any time. Stir it into yogurt. Or serve alongside a roasted or grilled rich meat like pork shoulder or pork chops. Or lamb! Lamb loves fruit.
• Put the oats on a baking sheet and bake them, stirring them now and then, until they smell toasty and are golden brown, 5 to 8 minutes.
• Simply put a peeled garlic clove on your cutting board, turn your chef’s knife so that the flat side of the blade hovers over the clove, and give the side of the blade a whack to crush the garlic. Sprinkle the crushed clove with a generous pinch of kosher salt (which acts as an abrasive) and then use the flat side of the knife to press and smear th...
• salt your chicken and let it air-dry at room temperature for 2 hours (or, better yet, uncovered in the fridge for up to 2 days) before cooking it. This lets the skin get nice and dry and also lets the salt really season the bird.