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Home | Annie A.

Annie A.

Annie is the kind of person who always reads and rereads food scenes in books, though she didn’t really learn to cook until her mid-twenties. Her “younger, far more kitchen-fluent” sister gave her her first cookbook, the iconic Lynne Rosetto Kasper’s, How to Eat Dinner, to help get her started on her adventures in cookery. From there, she just kept stepping a little further into the kitchen, discovering food writing (Ruth Reichl and Laurie Colwin forever) and picking up recipes she loved along the way. She calls herself “a highly untrained home cook—with very little counter space,” but she loves the creativity and comfort she finds when she spends time in the kitchen, which is what brought her to recipe testing for Leite’s Culinaria. Her favorite recipe so far? “This carrot cake. Sooo good. And don’t miss this blueberry-lemon layer cake, either. Take it from a true dessert person,” she says.

Annie A.
Green beans with browned butter and almonds in an oval white bowl with a serving spoon.

Green Beans with Browned Butter and Almonds

30 mins

An apple cinnamon pull-apart bread on a piece of parchment paper on top of a wire cooling rack, with apple slices, a glass plate, and a knife in the background.

Apple Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread

2 hrs 45 mins

A large enamel pot filled with chicken perloo with a ladle.

Chicken Perloo

1 hr 5 mins

A soft green casserole dish filed with lightly charred broccolini, kale, and green beans, sprinkled with chile flakes and garlic.

Charred Greens with Garlic

40 mins

A white bowl full of buctini pasta, covered with grated cheese and parsley.

Pasta with Anchovies and Onions

20 mins

A torn loaf of focaccia with herbs and salt and sprigs of rosemary, a knife, and a hunk of pecorino on the side.

Focaccia

13 hrs

Shrimp and chorizo plated in a white bowl, topped with parsley and lemon zest, with grilled lemon halves beside the dish.

Shrimp with Chorizo

30 mins

A stack of scalloped white plates with six thumbprint cookies on top, each garnished with white chocolate ganache.

Thumbprint Cookies

4 hrs

A person removing a slice of fresh tomato tart with a lifter and a bowl of pesto and black pepper on the side.

Fresh Tomato Tart

2 hrs 15 mins

A best brined roast chicken in a cast iron Dutch oven surrounded by potatoes, mushrooms, carrots, and a halved head of garlic.

David Leite’s Best Brined Roast Chicken

1 d 1 hr 30 mins

Eight vegan fudge brownies on a marble surface.

Vegan Fudge Brownies

3 hrs 55 mins

A classic apple pie with one-quarter missing, topped with a scoop of ice cream, and three forks in the empty pie spot.

Classic Apple Pie

3 hrs

A white plate with a slice of blueberry-lemon layer cake

Blueberry Lemon Layer Cake

2 hrs 30 mins

Four plates topped with broccoli with peanut sauce and a small dish of sesame seeds on the side.

Broccoli with Peanut Sauce

20 mins

Three salmon filets on an oval platter in a soy caramel sauce, topped with cilantro and scallions.

Pressure Cooker Vietnamese Caramel Salmon

15 mins

A white rectangular dish filled with herbed bread and celery stuffing with a fork and spoon next to it on a napkin.

Herbed Bread and Celery Stuffing

50 mins

A slice of classic carrot cake--two carrot cake layers filled and frosted with cream cheese frosting; on top are crushed walnuts.

Carrot Cake

1 hr 30 mins

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