FOOD Mavens! I cannot believe my luck. The Not So Mellow Jell-o recipes I published last week made for my all-time most popular blog post. Hundreds and hundreds of cyber foodies have found there way to that post each and every day since it’s been published. Featuring Strawberry-Basil Margaritas and Blueberry, Chambord & Champagne Jell-o [...]
Archive for the ‘Eating Green’ category
August 27th, 2010
The Jiggler Sensation
August 10th, 2010
Market Report: Rhubarb (sans Strawberries)
This season I’ve been enjoying classic summer pairings. Certain foods, like people, just seem to belong together, and as the sunshine months wear on, I have been determined to uncover as many of these classic combinations as possible. Just back from Colorado and eager to see what fruit the greenmarket bore in my absence, last [...]
July 28th, 2010
Market Report: Blueberry Nights
Still bouncing off my summer buzz of everything USA—Team USA, 4th of July, vacas to Vermont, Newport and Colorado, and a recent bike ride over the bridge and into Billyburg for spectacular soul food at Pies ‘n’ Thighs—I decided to co-host a polka-dot themed girl’s night with my Tribe. Using Nini’s apartment and my fervor [...]
July 20th, 2010
Market Report: Blossoming
There is something both romantic and utterly decadent about eating flowers. From earthy saffron strands infusing basmati rice to dainty violets adorning sugary-sweet desserts, flowers are alluring and exotic, delicate, and like cherries, erotic. I adore summer salads decked with peppery nasturtiums, rose petal jam on Melba toast, even pansies and lavender. But too often [...]
July 1st, 2010
Market Report: Cherubs & Cherries
Love is in the air, and cherries are at the market! Amanda flies in next week from LA, and we’re planning to catch up in the kitchen before we both make our way to summertime weddings; she’s off to a lavish affair right here in New York City, while I make my way up north [...]
June 24th, 2010
Crush-a-belle: Ode to Avocado
There are several indications summer in the city has made her grand entrance. Sundresses and sandals parade down sidewalks covered with tables, crowded with chairs, filled by New Yorkers hoisting fruity cocktails that flow like water, oh yeah, and the subway has begun to heat up like a sticky sauna.
Among the other signals of its [...]
June 14th, 2010
A Freshly Laid Frittata
A Farewell to Spring Skillet Frittata (serves 4)
4 TB Butter
1 tub Jumbo Lump Crabmeat
1 bunch Watercress (leaves separated)
1 bunch Garlic Chives (diced)
1 cup Fiddlehead Ferns (cleaned)
1 Lemon (juice & zest)
1 cup Morel Mushrooms (cleaned & chopped)
1 shot Marsala Wine
12 large Eggs
6 TB Heavy Cream
1 tub Mascarpone Cheese
Salt & Pepper
A frittata, not unlike a quiche, [...]
June 11th, 2010
Freshly Laid
From the beginning, I’ve made my love for eggs of all kinds no secret on this site. Quail egg toasts have become one of my favorite signature hors d’oeuvres, and I’ve shelled out a small fortune for spring-hued Araucanas. Needless to say, I’ve been spending a lot of time around a certain egg farmer lately–at [...]
June 8th, 2010
Market Report: Eggscellent
It all started when I made a vinegar cake. Holed up late at night in my apartment with a clichéd but absolutely palpable PMS craving for chocolate, I pulled out a recipe for a one bowl, nine ingredient chocolate cake that promised to be done and delectable in under 45 minutes. It was 1am, and [...]
June 1st, 2010
Market Report: Butter Me Up
I may be a chef and a foodie, but one of my favorite meals has always been bread and butter. Though I was not a finicky child, on those nights that our family ate “grown up food” I would be allowed, assuming I’d at least tried my meal and finished enough of the vegetables, to [...]
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