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FIGS FIVE WAYS…BUT BETTER HURRY!

FIGS FIVE WAYS…BUT BETTER HURRY!

WE LOVE FIGS! FIG SEASON IS SHORT! HERE ARE 5 WAYS TO SERVE FIGS Figs, as a fruit, are such a delight! They come from the Ficus tree, part of the mulberry family. They’re soft, sweet, and full of tiny, crunchy seeds that make them…

Spiced Lamb Burgers from Anissa Helou in Bon Appetit

Spiced Lamb Burgers from Anissa Helou in Bon Appetit

SPICE UP YOUR BURGER REPERTOIRE WITH THIS CRUNCHY, VIBRANTLY-FLAVORED SPICED LAMB BURGER. “ This is one of my favorite Bon Appetit recipes of all time. I make it every summer — the lamb fat seeps into the pita (in a GOOD way) so it gets…

Bistro Burgers with Pâte and Fig Salad

Bistro Burgers with Pâte and Fig Salad

“Pairing a rich beef burger with pâte and a fig salad may sound like gilding the lily…” So write the authors of America’s Test Kitchen’s latest book ‘Modern Bistro: Home Cooking Inspired by French Classics” (America’s Test Kitchen 2022). They could have been listening to…

Martha Stewart’s Lemongrass Pork Burgers

Martha Stewart’s Lemongrass Pork Burgers

Here’s a Burger you can eat with or without a bun We’re always up for a great burger. So when we came across this recipe, we jumped.  It packs a terrific punch of flavor, in this case solidly planted in Southeast Asia. There’s lemongrass, ginger,…

Cheeseburger Chopped Steak with Tomatoes on the Side

Cheeseburger Chopped Steak with Tomatoes on the Side

A Favorite Restaurant inspires a Home Cook’s Dinner Quest As New Yorkers, we’re bereft at the months-long lockdown of the Broadway theaters.  They’re a part of our landscape and no matter how many—or how few–times we see plays every year, they’re cultural treasures that are…

Meet an American Food Hero. Make the Shake Shack Burger. Feed the First Responders.

Meet an American Food Hero. Make the Shake Shack Burger. Feed the First Responders.

In a world turned upside down, Food Hero Joe Ariel is coming to the rescue of both First Responders, Healthcare Workers and the Restaurants who need our business to survive. After graduating from college in Nashville, Joe Ariel’s move to New York City was accompanied…

Nigella Lawson’s Meatzza

Nigella Lawson’s Meatzza

You really have to taste how good this is to know why it’s one of our most popular recipes of all time. As promised, here’s another recipe to get us through being stuck in the house. It’s unorthodox for sure. It’s basically a giant hamburger…

It looks like a Burger with Fries. But you can eat this one on Meatless Monday.  It’s the Beyond Burger.

It looks like a Burger with Fries. But you can eat this one on Meatless Monday. It’s the Beyond Burger.

We ate our first Beyond Burgers this month. Here’s our review: When you live near an all-American town like Sag Harbor, New York, you know you’re going to find a great burger.  I love the burgers at Dockside, a local institution that’s an improbable tenant…

Cheeseburger Soup

Cheeseburger Soup

In all honesty, I don’t know what possessed me to make this.  Let’s face it, it’s not exactly a Gourmet discovery.  And even if its genesis was a recipe I saw in Food and Wine Magazine, it’s a long way from their usual offerings.  Nevertheless,…

Bobby Flay’s Salmon Burgers with Hoisin Barbecue Sauce

Bobby Flay’s Salmon Burgers with Hoisin Barbecue Sauce

I like Bobby Flay.  For quite a few years, I worked above his ‘store’. That would be his late lamented Mesa Grill. At Mesa, his take on Southwestern cuisine virtually introduced New York to the flavors of that part of the country.  Of course, along…

Bon Appetit’s Spiced Lamb Burger in Pitas and Ina Garten’s Easy Tzatziki

Bon Appetit’s Spiced Lamb Burger in Pitas and Ina Garten’s Easy Tzatziki

Spiced Lamb Burger Platter with Tzatziki and Sliced Tomatoes Bon Appetit’s Grilled Spiced Lamb Burger          Last summer, Bon Appetit’s Summer Grilling issue included a picture of a dish I found irresistible.  Granted it took me a year to get to it but I was…