I’m just back in the Big Apple after an extended wedding weekend in Vermont, where I baked and assembled a tower of 250 cocktail-inspired cupcakes cupcakes (think Brandy Alexanders, Bourbon Manhattans and Carmel Cappuccino Creams)! Sorting through my many wedding photos I got to thinking about all the travel images I collected this past Spring, [...]
July 13th, 2010
A Moveable Feast: Adventures with the FOOD Maven
June 21st, 2010
The Dinner Belle Does Spring
Today marks the first day of Summer! And by all accounts, this season already seems to have surpassed last year’s wash out. It’s gorgeous outside, and has been for weeks now. Summer’s heirloom tomatoes and sweet corn are right around the corner, but there’s still plenty of Spring’s leftover harvest to keep us happily returning [...]
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 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 [...]
May 17th, 2010
Market Report: Iron Chef Challenge (Part I)
Right before I took off on a two-week jaunt down south, I met up with my most mordant friend for sherry and snacks at one of my favorite spots in the city, Blue Ribbon Bar. Over a bottle of amontillado and cumin-roasted almonds, Snotty McSnobster and I exchanged stories about the scandal-clad party hop we [...]
May 11th, 2010
Market Report: My Romance with Radish
One day last week I woke up to the delicious spring sun warming me through the window of my fifth-floor walk up. Taleggio and I spent a few lackadaisical moments basking in the glorious heat, as if we were literally thawing ourselves out after a long winter. With nothing pressing on my agenda (a much [...]
May 3rd, 2010
Market Report: Rampage
It seems like only a few days ago that I noticed the first crocus buds poking up from the earth of sidewalk plots. Thin spears of daffodils followed, and by Easter, New Yorkers lucky enough to boast gardens were awash with hyacinths and narcissus. And then, quietly and suddenly, the trees exploded into a riot [...]
April 9th, 2010
Strawberry Shortcakes
So catering has sort of been kicking my ass this week, and I haven’t had time to write a proper blog post. This might be a first since starting this blog back in September of 2007, but it’s also the first time Erin and I have attempted 6 jobs in 10 days, and now I [...]
March 29th, 2010
“Blooming” Business, by Erin
Despite my passion for everything winter—long weekends in Vermont, fireside naps, cups of Jacques Torres’ Wicked Hot Chocolate, over-sized sweaters, and oodles of Kimberly’s comfort food—I am more than ready to bid adieu to the slopes and embrace a few sunny afternoons in Prospect Park. The Dinner Belle, much like this new spring season, is [...]
March 22nd, 2010
Market Report: Lala Land
As poets, gardeners and schoolchildren know, spring is a time of awakening and release. Snow melts, coats are shed and newly manicured toes start appearing on the street. It is relief, a literal breath of fresh air through the first opened window of the year, a lifting of the mantle of darkness that enveloped us [...]
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