Caprese Tomato “Boats” (serves 4) • 10 Perfect Plum Tomatoes• 2 Pork Sausages (half sweet fennel & half hot Italian)• 1 ball Buffalo Mozzarella• 1 wedge Parmigiano-Reggiano• 1 pinch Chili Flakes• 1 clove Garlic• 1 Lemon (zested)• 1 bunch Arugula• 1 bunch Basil• Salt & Pepper to taste• Extra Virgin Olive Oil Choose the 8 [...]
Archive for the ‘Appetizers’ category
October 29th, 2008
Caprese Tomato “Boats”
May 6th, 2008
Spring Rolls Have Sprung
Last summer I hosted a rager on my ex’s gorgeous penthouse terrace and asked friends to bring a bottle or a potluck dish. Nini came with a tin of spring rolls. At that party, she mentioned having spent the afternoon preparing her family’s signature Vietnamese dish, but I had no idea how much trouble she’d [...]
December 30th, 2007
Lots o’ Latkes
I may be a half-breed, but I am wholly in love with potato pancakes. My Mamma, the Jew, makes them every year for my Dad’s fam, the gentiles. Identity crises aside, they’ve come to taste like holidays to us all and are perfect when made miniature and passed around to snack on before Christmas dinner…or [...]
December 13th, 2007
Christmas Crostini
This is the December weekend for holiday parties…I’m attending two! And cooking for neither, for once. But you may well find yourself on the other end of that spectrum, so I’m offering an easy fix that feels flawless in the mouth, looks fancy on the plate, and morphs easily into crackers and dip once you’re too tanked to continue [...]
November 22nd, 2007
Lumberjacks and Jack o’Lanterns
Though, technically, autumn began a few weeks ago, there have been few nights in the past couple of months with real fall crispness. Remember how warm it still was on Halloween? And I don’t just look forward to autumn—I crave it. The burning colors, brisk air that yields pink cheeks, leaves crunching under a new [...]
Proudly powered by WordPress.