I’m off to Vermont in the AM with unpromising Internet access, so let me be the first to wish FOOD Mavens everywhere a Happy Early New Year! You can expect a complete report of my holiday adventures when I return to the Big Apple next week. I hope you’ll join me in welcoming 2010 with [...]
Archive for December, 2009
December 25th, 2009
Merry Christmas FOOD Mavens
From our kitchens to yours, hope your holidays are filled with treats both savory and sweet!
December 22nd, 2009
Jesus sans Skis
I don’t ski. And for the record, I don’t date bankers or wear Christmas sweaters either. I grew up in a working class town covered in snow six months out of the year, with very few peaks or ski snobs to speak of. I like winter for her log fires and her forced interiors; I [...]
December 18th, 2009
Season-a-Belle: Winter Recipe eBook
Tis the season to be spending ungodly amounts of time and money shopping and baking. And in a recession, that just strikes me as unfair. The holidays can prove trying on your wallet, your rolling pin and your stamina, so looking for shortcuts becomes a fore-drawn conclusion. If the harried holiday hubbub has left you [...]
December 15th, 2009
Chocolate-Peanut Butter Anything
I love anything made with the classic chocolate-peanut butter flavor combo. Anything. But because I avoid eating processed foods, I’m constantly trying to recreate the joy that is a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. In my kitchen, I’ve tooled around with frozen chocolate-peanut butter ice cream sandwiches, chocolate-peanut butter cupcakes filled with Nutella, a chocolate-peanut butter [...]
December 11th, 2009
Market Report: Dinosaur Kale
It happens suddenly. One minute, I’m walking through the crunchy yellow leaves and the crisp fall air, and the next, big globs of half-frozen snow are plopping down on the sidewalk – signifying, loud and clear, the end of always-too-short autumn and the start of honest-to-God winter. It’s like that day a few months ago, [...]
December 8th, 2009
Gossip & Gift Boxes with The Belles
Click on the video screen above to watch the third webisode in a series documenting The Dinner Belle’s A Feast Fit for a Queen soiree. In this webisode, The Dinner Belles take to the couch to pick sage leaves (for my Brown Butter Sage Pumpkin Ravioli), wrap gift boxes filled with Whole Wheat Apple Crunch [...]
December 3rd, 2009
The Skinny
At least once a week I’m asked, “How do you stay so skinny?” When you look at Mario Batali, Paula Dean or Nigella Lawson, they look like chefs. You believe them as honest to goodness food people. You can tell they eat, and that they love eating. But when I tell people I’m a chef, [...]
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