As someone who enjoys diving into a nice tartare at a restaurant (as well as making them at home), I’ll basically try anything once, including tomato tartare. This version was from a recipe I came across online, and while it was nice, I have to be honest and admit that I really haven’t made it…
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Turmeric-cumin cauliflower soup that’s perfect whether chilled or hot.
Last September, I waxed poetic about this chilled cauliflower soup recipe from Giada De Laurentiis, and I declared that I would be making it frequently over the colder months as a way to enjoy cauliflower more frequently, with sometimes swapping out this beet gazpacho I first enjoyed at Jaleo in December. I’m pleased to say…
Chilled cauliflower soup with bacon and thyme that will ease you from summer to fall.
As I write this, much of the East Coast has been embroiled in a heatwave that can only be described as soupy. When I made my weekly walk over to Whole Foods, I came back red as a beet not from the sun, but from exertion and I was completely drenched. (I was also grouchy…
Tuscan-style white bean and garlic soup with sage, rosemary, and mascarpone.
As I’m writing this, the temperature is in the high 30s when two days ago the high temperature was at 80 degrees. It’s been a wild winter despite the lack of snow, between the extreme lows around the holidays to again, freakishly warm days, but that’s what climate change does to our weather. It’s been…
Cured trout Delmonico, inspired in part by Hawksmoor at Home and Israeli Soul.
While salmon is probably the fish I eat the most often, especially cured, we try to eat trout whenever we can find it because it’s a more sustainable fish, even if farmed, and it’s basically the freshwater cousin to the salmon. The only downside to it is if you can only find it whole, you’re…
Fried calamari and marinara from The Grand Central Oyster Bar Cookbook.
Few things make me as nostalgic for New York like the Grand Central Oyster Bar. Especially when we lived in Stamford and would take the train into the city, we’d often stop on our way back for a couple of beers and a dozen oysters, usually selecting a few East and West coast selections from…
Padma Lakshmi’s sweet and sour shrimp with cherry tomatoes from Cherry Bombe: The Cookbook and her new show Taste the Nation, worth watching right now.
A very long time ago, back when we lived in New Haven, day trips to Manhattan were a pretty regular occurrence for us. One of these trips included good friends of ours and we spent the day visiting the MoMA, doing a little shopping at Barney’s New York, getting a drink at L’Orange Bleu…
Txampi, or a pressed sandwich of mushroom, Manchego, and sage from The Basque Book.
Small sandwiches are regularly part of a pintxos spread at any bar you’d find in San Sebastian, and for good reason–cold sandwiches can be offered during the time when the kitchen may not be operating, and in general, they make for an excellent base on which to start a protracted pintxo crawl that can last…
An end-of-month check-in on my 2020 cookbook challenge and Julia Child’s oeufs à la Bourguignonne from Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
As of this writing, I’m 23 books into this year’s cookbook project, and so far I’m pretty pleased with my progress. Unlike the last time I did this, one of my goals for this year is to try to attack more “challenging” books in our bookcase sooner rather than later in order to take advantage…
Ceviche ganador inspired by CVI.CHE 105 in Miami.
Credit where credit is due: the only reason why I know about CVI.CHE 105 is due to my dear friend Dana over at The Kitchen Witch. As part of a recent email exchange, I mentioned to her that I was headed to Miami and she recommended this place for its excellent ceviche, so automatically I…
The Manhattan [food] Project 