Recipe for Quick Kimchi Cucumbers, Fennel and Cherry Tomatoes
Three Quick Kimchi Vegetables and a Classic Wedge Salad transformed by one of them.
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Three Quick Kimchi Vegetables and a Classic Wedge Salad transformed by one of them.
Cooking for One Yields Some Great New Discoveries for Two. Or More. I don’t know about you, but in our house, there are some forbidden ingredients. Olives of any kind. Cabbage when used outside of Cole Slaw. Pickles. Blue Cheese. Cauliflower. And most especially Kimchi,…
The Best Baked Potato? Try Our English Jacket Potatoes!
Astonishingly, Baked Potatoes are trending in the heat of Summer. Almost every day, I check to see what’s hot on Chewing The Fat. This week, I discovered that the most popular recipe on the entire site was “The Perfect Baked Potato”. With 4160 pageviews just…
2 More Dorie Greenspan Cookies! Double-Ginger Molasses and World Peace Cookies
2 Recipes that just can’t wait for the weekend. Normally, we post our Baking recipes later in the week. This is on the assumption that people have more time to bake on the weekend. We’re breaking the rules because everyone who has tasted one of…
Melissa Clark’s Chicken Paillards with Cherry Caprese Salad
Melissa Clark’s latest book “Dinner in French” (Clarkson Potter 2020) is a winner. The latest in a long line of books created by The New York Times’ Melissa Clark, “Dinner in French” is surprisingly weeknight-friendly. Veteran Francophile Clark, who spent her childhood summers in France,…
Chorizo Breakfast Tacos with Potato Hash and Fried Eggs
Breakfast for Dinner or Just Breakfast, you choose. This wonderful dish is a fantastic take on a Chorizo hash, in which the fresh sausage is paired with onions, garlic, and potatoes. There’s a hint of pickled onion, a tablespoon or so of cheese and the…
Cocktail Cookies from Dorie Greenspan: Goat Cheese & Chives and Tarragon Apricot
America’s Cookie Goddess creates the perfect nibbles for Cocktail Hour Dorie Greenspan must be considered the Goddess of Cookies. The baking guru claims to have woken, more than once, in the middle of the night to bake a cookie she dreamed about. At least that’s…
Not quite Niçoise: Tuna, Asparagus and New Potato Salad with Chive Vinaigrette and Fried Capers
A great salad for a weekend lunch or a light supper one night next week. Asparagus is at its peak and radishes are almost gone from the farm stands here. So this week I was on the hunt for recipes that would make the most…
It’s Tostada Tuesday! Celebrate with Pulled Chicken Tostadas
Of all the foods we miss, simple Mexican food is high on our list. We are spoiled in the city living just a block from a Tacqueria that turns out Mexican favorites so good and so inexpensive, I seldom bother making them at home. But…
Rao’s Remarkable Meatballs: A Recipe for Helping the Poor and the Vulnerable.
Rao’s, the Iconic Italian Restaurant in East Harlem, is Working To Keep New York’s Partnership Schools Open and Thriving. Fifteen years ago, Frank Pellegrino Sr. of Rao’s Restaurant helped save a nearby small elementary school in Harlem – Mt. Carmel-Holy Rosary – from the brink…
Fish Chowder from Sam Sifton in The New York Times
A No Recipe Recipe yields a Chowder so good, I had to share the recipe I made with it. Once a week, Sam Sifton of the New York Times publishes what he calls a “No Recipe Recipe”. There is no set of ingredients or steps…
Melissa Clark’s Rhubarb Custard Bars
It’s Melissa Clark Week! Here’s her phenomenal gift to Rhubarb lovers everywhere. What Melissa Clark did for Asparagus earlier this week is now bookended by another seasonal favorite. It’s rhubarb which made its first appearance at our Organic Farm Stand, Serene Green, this week. Andrew…
Armchair Travelers: Take a look at the most luxurious ship ever to sail the Galapagos. Read the astonishing story of shipbuilding during a Pandemic.
Above: Silver Origin as she will look in the Galapagos. Rendering Courtesy Silversea. Silversea’s Silver Origin Is Launched, Defying All Odds. Prominently displayed at a recent Webinar hosted by Barbara Muckermann, Chief Marketing Officer of Silversea Cruises, were the words of Charles Darwin: “It is…
Joanne Chang’s Rosemary and Olive Oil Focaccia from Flour Bakery, Boston.
If your ambitions for this week included baking great bread, this is for you. Breadmaking has become wildly popular. All over Instagram our friends are posting glorious photos of all kinds of sourdough boules, baguettes, Irish brown bread, and the inevitable pizza dough. To say…
