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Our First-Ever Guest Post…and we’re going to Georgia…the Republic not the State
I wrote my first article for www.Travel-Wise.com last month. I shared the link with you to my story on my latest European adventure from Budapest to Nuremburg. (I’ve included the link after the recipe, which is another first for Chewing The Fat! A video recipe!)…
Caramelized Black Pepper Chicken from Charles Phan of San Francisco’s The Slanted Door
Food & Wine Magazine’s September 2018 issue attempts a task that must have almost impossible. It’s the magazine’s 40th Anniversary issue and its editors had to decide which recipe best represented every single year’s output—literally hundreds of recipes. In Food & Wine, you can trace…
Gail Simmons’ Bumbleberry Buttermilk Upside Down Cake
Gail Simmons is such a glamorous presence on “Top Chef” that it’s easy to forget she’s first and foremost a great cook. She’s also a fellow Canadian so I took a great deal of heat from Andrew for not knowing what a Bumbleberry was. I’d…
Dinner Party Dishes: Vegetable Biryani
After I published this post, I shared it on Jonell Galloway’s Facebook page “Culinary Travel by Jonell Galloway, The Rambling Epicure”. One of Jonell’s readers got involved when I mentioned the multiple spellings of “biryani” and Jonell asked whether it was the English spelling of…
Ovenly’s Banana Nutella Coffee Cake
“Ovenly” is a bakery that was started in, where else, Brooklyn. It was the love child of two self-taught cooks, Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin. The pair are given to experimentation which has resulted in out-the-door lines of people waiting to buy items like their…
My latest Travel Adventure has just been published…Come along for the ride!
8 Reasons You Should Take a Scenic Cruise Along the Danube River August 22, 2018. I am very pleased to introduce you to a new outlet that I am working with. It’s called Travel-Wise and it’s a compendium of original travel stories that I think…
I am back from Europe with a perfect dish for a summer night: Hot Pasta with a Cold Tomato Sauce
I won’t go into the dreary details of two nights spent in Frankfurt Airport where a freak storm stranded over 7000 passengers except to say that if a contest were held First Prize would be one night in Frankfurt Airport and Second Prize would be…
A Summer Dinner Party Menu in 3 Parts
When Andrew and I plan a dinner party, the menu starts to percolate once the RSVPs have been received. We try to think of our audience and we try to make things interesting. Generally that means doing something completely new. We have a fair amount…
Pollo Tonnato, a Hamptons Italian Dish straight from Ireland.
This week, I got an email from my cousin Simon who lives in Britain but who once lived with my family in Montreal while he attended McGill University. I’d just seen Simon and his wonderful wife Martha on my recent trip to England. But we’ve…
A riff on Ina Garten’s Chicken Salad Veronique
One of the best things to have in the refrigerator in summer is a large quantity of chicken salad. You can serve it on a bed of lettuce or make it into sandwiches. You make it once and you have it all week. And I…
Ice Cream Sandwiches…Portable Summer Treats
I must admit to having been slightly taken aback when Andrew told me his weekend plans included making Ice Cream Sandwiches. Not that I didn’t want one. And when the smell of his dark chocolate ‘biscuit’ wafted through the kitchen, I could hardly wait until…
Northern Fried Chicken courtesy of Blue Ribbon and The Bromberg Brothers
Pictured above… Northern Fried Chicken with a Watermelon and Arugula Salad There are times when I just don’t want to post a recipe because it’s just too good. It’s not that I am trying to keep it from you. It is just that once a…
Bittersweet Chocolate Raspberry Tart from Nick Malgieri’s “The Modern Baker”
Our Godchild hit a major milestone this month. Olivia graduated cum laude from Poly Prep Country Day School in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. For four years she has left her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and travelled to school, a considerable journey. There…
