Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
My first experience cooking polenta started out a little scary but it only took me a few minutes to pull it together and make a simple and satisfying Italian dish. The sweat started bubbling on my brow within 30 seconds of the cooking process. No no, girls don’t sweat; they glow. The glow took over my…
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I wouldn’t have known Monday was National Lasagna Day if Albert had not pointed it out to me. Thankfully, lasagna is an easy dish to throw together so I didn’t need much advanced notice to celebrate. But boring, standard lasagna doesn’t really say “celebration” so I wanted to update the recipe – something that’s easy…
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Defonte’s is a Brooklyn institution. It’s an old school Italian sandwich shop where you shouldn’t dare ask for substitutions on these large sandwiches that look like they could feed the whole firehouse. These are manly sandwiches at girly prices (nothing over $11). The Manhattan branch may be a little shinier but from what I hear,…
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Steph loves to go to Il Bastardo because it’s easy for her to get to from Hoboken and they apparently do a rowdy, dance party brunch. It’s hard to imagine that when you’re eating lunch there on a random weekday (which I was fortunate enough to do thanks to a pre-memorial day off work), but…
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I usually keep a package of chicken sausage in my fridge for those nights when I get home late but still want a home cooked meal. They stay fresh for a while and come in all sorts of fun flavors like jalapeno, the variety residing in my fridge this week. If you’ve ever seen an…
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By the time I made it to the restaurant on Thursday, Steph had already put in an order for pizza at Pala, a place she stumbled into before instructing me to abandon our original restaurant plan and meet her there. She had ordered the spinach pizza, which was topped with a sweet cherry tomato sauce,…
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I’ve known about Via Quadronno ever since I lived a couple avenues away on 73rd street when I first moved to New York. I first noticed it as a cute and narrow café on my way to the park on a sunny weekend. It looked like the perfect place to grab a quick brunch or…
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Here’s a tip you’ll want to write down: Trader Joe’s has a pretty good deal on burrata. When I found two rounds of it for less than $8, I snatched it up for a caprese salad. I only used one for my salad, leaving me with a whole second ball of mozzarella goodness to play…
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After a combo 1/2 marathon and St. Patty’s Day celebration on Sunday, we decided we needed to soak up all our green beer with some Italian food and headed to the closest place we could find, Acqua. Acqua stands out as a nicer restaurant in the middle of the more sparsely populated South Street Seaport…
Read MoreSince my apartment is relatively close to Gramercy Theater, I decided to have the girls over for food and drinks before we headed to Yacht Rock later that night. Most of the food came from Trader Joe’s because no one can complain about going with store-bought food when it means you’re munching on mac and cheese balls.…
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Peaches to Apples 