West Tenth Street Brownies, from Nick Malgieri
This week I am doing one repeat recipe, and one from a completely new source. The repeat is the Nibby Pecan Cookies. I am a big fan of Alice Medrich - her recipes are usually very simple and rely on the quality of the ingredients rather than complicated techniques or ingredients. I made this recipe back in the fall, and I am as happy with it now as I think I was then. This is a recipe that is essentially a buttery sable that has cacao nibs and roasted pecans added for punch. These two flavors are very complementary and make this a really nice cookie. This recipe makes small-ish cookies, so the danger is that if you had a tray of them around, you would (could) just keep popping them into your mouth, one after another. But we wouldn't do that - would we, Enduring-Vow?
Nick Malgieri is a prominent cookbook author and pastry chef. I don't have any of his books (yet), but he is often referred to as being one of the more authoritative bakers in the U.S. today. I was browsing through brownie recipes in another cookbook, and the author referred to his brownie recipe as one of the modern standards. I don't know if this recipe is the one she was referring to, but let's hope so. He has an online website, and this recipe is found there. He says he calls these the West 10th Street Brownies because he found the recipe on a card on the street on West 10th St. With a provenance like that, I hope they turn out OK!
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