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Category: Seafood

Nantucket Bay Scallops in Tabasco Butter with Parmesan Cheese and Croutons

Nantucket Bay Scallops in Tabasco Butter with Parmesan Cheese and Croutons

   The American Hotel. A must stop in Sag Harbor whether for Bay Scallops or not          I can’t tell you how proud I am of this recipe.  It is really one time when I can genuinely claim the authorship of a dish. I’d tried…

Spaghetti with Crab Meat, Cherry Tomatoes and Arugula From Florence Fabricant by way of Nick and Toni’s Café, Manhattan

         Of all the restaurants in the Hamptons, none is more reliably celebrity-packed than Nick and Toni’s (136 North Main St. East Hampton, New York 11937 Phone: 631-324-3550).  But unlike so many haunts of the rich and famous, Nick and Toni’s has spectacular food.  So between…

Scampi Fra Diavolo adapted from Bon Appetit

         Few things are more of a convenience in the kitchen than keeping a bag of Costco shrimp in the Freezer. Cleaned, with their tails intact, they are very economical and they come in several sizes of shrimp—from very large to small and somewhere in between.  Whatever…

The Hampton Classic 2011. What we loved, what they wore and what we ate.

Our Table Decor Yellow Calla Lillies and Horses Summer Corn and Scallop Salad adapted from Sylvia Lehrer Andrew’s Cookies and Michael’s Color Co-ordinated Devilled Eggs          The Grand Prix marks the end of The Hampton Classic Horse Show, one of the pre-eminent equestrian events in…

Linguine with Lemon-Garlic Shrimp

        I’ve yet to find a recipe that comes close to the Shrimp Scampi that I grew up with. It was a dish that was so resolutely garlic-y, you could smell it coming up the driveway.  Later, when I lived in Italy, I found out…

Review of Fatty Crab and a recipe for a one-dish wonder called Nasi Goreng with Shrimp

Review of Fatty Crab and a recipe for a one-dish wonder called Nasi Goreng with Shrimp

            I can’t get enough of Fatty Crab www.fattycrab.com  2170Broadway (76th-77th St.)212-496-2722 for reservations or https://www.opentable.com/), the spinoff of the original West Village restaurant (634 Hudson Street, between Horatio and Gansevoort Sts., 212 352-3592 (No reservations are taken).             Now that it’s made the trek north…