Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
I tend to eat a lot of pasta all year-long, but my noodle intake really seems to spike in the cold months. It’s the comfort food I crave to warm my belly when it’s freezing. Also, when it’s cold I don’t want to walk to the good grocery store for better ingredients and it’s so easy to…
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When Albert made a special request for chicken parm for our Chrismukkah gift exchange, I had to learn how to make it quickly. Based on all the recipes I looked at, it seemed this is the kind of dish that you can make more complicated with herbs and frying…or easy with baking and some help…
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The Dish: There’s a scene in “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” where Rose tells Sue Ellen to relax after a rough day by having a glass of wine and putting some cucumber slices on her eyes. When Sue Ellen responds that she’s all out of cucumbers, Rose says, “every girl over twenty-five should have…
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Stuffed peppers can be made in a variety of different ways. Almost all of them include meat, rice, and cheese, like the ones I made here. That’s why I was so intrigued to find this recipe, which includes neither rice (or any starch, for that matter) nor cheese. The reason for omitting such products was…
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When it comes to potluck dishes, it’s tough to find something that’s easy but still hearty. If you want to bring something more substantial, that usually means a casserole. While that’s not necessarily difficult, it can be annoying to transport if you’re not going home after work and will need to be heated up when…
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This roasted red pepper and goat cheese pasta has all the creaminess of alfredo with the extra tang of goat cheese. And then there’s the garlic and basil flavors typically found in pesto. Just for good measure (and a gorgeous color) there’s roasted red pepper in there, too. That’s about three different sauces, but it…
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Just as in the past (here, here, here, here, and here), my job at Thanksgiving is to prepare the appetizers. This year – more than in the past – ease was a top priority. We had to work around the schedule of a brand new baby and you can’t really ask to change naptime because…
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Friendsgiving has become wildly popular in the last few years, especially in a place like NYC where so many people are transplants from far away. When you move far from home, you don’t get the opportunity to see family all the time so you form tighter bonds with friends than you might under other circumstances.…
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I am usually intrigued whenever chicken or fish is “encrusted.” It makes the protein seem so special that it’s got its own protective armor of flavor. Usually putting a crust around something requires the right balance of oven temperature and cook time. You need to crisp up the outter layer without drying the rest of the…
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There are a couple of no brainers when it comes to salmon: dill and dijon mustard; so it’s no surprise that both of them find their way into this dish. I made a few small changes to this recipe for warm couscous salad with salmon and mustard-dill dressing. Instead of cooking the salmon in the…
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Peaches to Apples 