Today felt gray. The sky was in fact speckled with sunshine, but a cool breeze beckoned sweaters and socks and made me feel automatically autumnal. There’s no better pairing to sweater and sock weather than soup and sandwich, and no better soup and sandwich combo than tomato and grilled cheese. This easy, hearty, zippy meal [...]
Archive for September, 2007
September 30th, 2007
Tomato-Lemon Soup with Orzo
September 30th, 2007
Grilled Pepperjack on Sourdough
Grilled cheese is one of those recipes a kindergartener could make well, but can also be elevated to gourmand proportions with just a few easy additions and creative flavor jolts. Today I stuck by my standard bread fave for the sandwich, sourdough, and pulled together the following items from my fridge to make a killer [...]
September 30th, 2007
Greenmarket Blues
That’s it; I’ve had it. There will be no more Greenmarket for me on an Autumn weekend afternoon! I always look forward to Saturdays in the Square, but today was just unmanageable. Too many people, too hot, all the best produce gone. I could barely get close enough to talk to the vendors about their [...]
September 28th, 2007
Surprise: Gemma is a bit of a Gem!
I consider Gemma a potential new “neighborhood joint,” even though it’s on The Bowery and I live in the West Village. Basically anything new and purportedly special that opens up south of 14th Street is a place I will claim as my own, if it lives up to its hype. My experience tonight at Gemma [...]
September 28th, 2007
Cupcake Crackdown
To my mind, “the cupcake problem” as reported in the Times the other day, has less to do with hyping up or cracking down on the proliferation of cupcakistas eager to snag one of these showboats for frosting (even if it means 20 minute lines), and everything to do with the most basic of [...]
September 27th, 2007
What to Read
As the seasons change and greenmarkets go more brown than green across the city with pears, parsnips, and pumpkins beginning to show their face among what was summer’s gloriously green bounty, you may be inclined to read up on the food movements that have taken center stage and made farmers markets as chic as skinny [...]
September 26th, 2007
A Cold Shoulder to that Iced Café
I’m a New Yorker; I know what it means to pay for quality.
It’s not that the iced cappuccino was $4.25 a pop, it’s that it wasn’t good enough to be $4.25 a pop. Though the leaves have begun to turn shades of sunset, it still felt like summer in the city on Monday as [...]
September 26th, 2007
Scallops Encore
Seems I’m not the only one with scallops on the brain today! The NY Times just posted a recipe that calls for poaching the sweet creatures in cream and topping the dish with fresh basil. The heavy comfort of the cream and butter, the sweet basil that reminds of the summer that’s passing [...]
September 26th, 2007
Scallops over Creamed Corn with Balsamic and Blackberries
Two of my perennial summer favorites are about to go the way of open toed shoes: out of season. Tonight I decided to combine my love for golden sweet corn and blackberries, creating a dish that pays homage to summer’s last stand against autumnal breezes, the harbingers of wool pants and first frost. [...]
September 24th, 2007
Tending the Urban Soil
It’s just about time to bring my herb garden inside. I hope the plants don’t mind the move because I’ve been loving the touch that homegrown herbs add to my dishes. It goes even beyond the taste, although there’s nothing better than freshly picked mint to garnish just-brewed iced tea, or my own basil, straight [...]
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