Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
I keep seeing recipes for corn on the cob that’s been grilled and topped with fun ingredients like seasoned butter, mayo, and cotija cheese. Such a fun summer treat, right? Well here’s the problem with that: I live in NYC so it is significantly more difficult to find a grill to make a recipe like…
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Finally! The weather has changed and that means there is new produce in season. Asparagus is a great veggie to use right now. You’ll probably see it everywhere this month from soups to pastas. I find that when something is in season, it requires very little fuss to turn it into a great dish. In this…
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I’m working very hard to start eating breakfast in the morning. Usually that means a croissant or an english muffin with cheese…maybe some sort of egg dish on the weekend. But last week I set my sights on a quinoa breakfast bowl; and on a weekday, no less. I know, it seems aggressive. I, too,…
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After my curried yogurt with beet and sweet potato chip post, I decided there was a hole in my food blogging. I post big dishes all the time but I rarely ever write about snacks. We all indulge in ‘tween the meal munching but there’s usually little variation. I, myself, am partial to white cheddar Pirate’s…
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I’ve been in a snack rut lately. Every time I reach for something to munch on between meals I’ve ended up with popcorn or hummus. I wanted something new so I did some googling and found a list of quick and healthy snacks on realsimple.com and found this winner. Just mix fat free Greek yogurt…
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I had been snacking on my latest cheese purchase, a goat cheese rolled in smoked paprika (I think) but decided I wanted to do something more with it than put it on crackers. The paprika gave it such a unique smoky flavor (one I don’t associate with the tang of goat cheese) that I thought…
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I remembered on Monday night that I had book club on Tuesday. (That’s the day after in case you’ve been working the kind of hours I have resulting in days that bleed together.) I was right near Whole Foods so I cruised Pinterest for an easy appetizer while I walked to the store. I found…
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Sometimes you taste something that doesn’t belong…but you like it anyway. That’s what happened to me when I tried the frozen yogurt at Victory Garden. It’s fro yo that’s made with goat milk. The inevitable first question is whether or not it tastes like goat cheese. It actually does. It has all the tang of…
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I went to a restaurant once that served their guacamole with plantain chips instead of tortilla chips. I loved the starchiness of the chip and because they are less salty than tortilla chips, the guacamole really stands out. Leave it to Trader Joe’s to stock plantain chips on the cheap. I grabbed a bag and…
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One of my New Years Resolutions is to start a new monthly feature on the blog (and, again, I resolve to revive the last monthly feature I started, Inspiration Station). Cooking with ingredients of the season just feels…genuine. Each month I’ll select one or two ingredients that are in season and highlight them in a…
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Peaches to Apples 