This is currently my favorite way to cook vegetables: tossed in olive oil, dusted with salt and pepper and then roasted with some pine nuts just until tender. Once they come out of the oven they are coated in lemon juice and sprinkled with parmesan (grated works better but shaved parmesan looks prettier, don’t you [...]
When I cook, I try to use mostly seasonal, local ingredients. However, there are times, when say I’ve just come back from a trip where I’ve been eating mostly sausage and potatoes, when all I want to eat is the vegetable soup that my mom used to make from a recipe that came from Weight [...]
We touched down in Newark at 6:00 Saturday morning and were in our double-wide matchbox of an apartment in Brooklyn by 7:30. After a breakfast of turkey sandwiches we settled in for a long winter’s nap. . . . that lasted two hours. I went through the rest of the day feeling like I had [...]
Yesterday morning we were leafing through the last issue of Gourmet (sigh) wondering what to make for dinner when these beautiful dishes jumped out at us. Healthy, quick, and tasty, it’s the perfect dinner to make at the end of a long day (and after the tedium of my Bilingual Exceptional Child class.) Bookmark on [...]
I wish I had a nice glamor shot of the finished soup to show you. I wish I had more than just these images of of tomatoes ready to be roasted on baking pans, but that’s not the way it worked out. It was cold. And rainy. We were hungry and tired. We’d been shopping [...]
I’ve been on a tomato kick recently. It’s the end of summer (actually summer pretty much exited stage left the moment September came into view) and I’m trying to cram as many fresh tomatoes into our diet as I can. I first made this pie over a month ago, and while we loved it then, [...]
Yesterday, at the farmers market, I went to visit the pickle man, to try the pickled green beans and he said it was nice to finally talk to me because “he sees me there every day.” It’s true, I am there all the time. I love it, I don’t love the crowds in Union Square, [...]
A few weeks ago Amir cheated on me with the cheese department at Whole Foods. I know it’s terrible, but I’ve forgiven him and we’ve managed to rebuild the trust in our dairy relationship. Because of said cheating we had a quarter of a pound of Bleu d’Auvergne sitting in our fridge. Bleu d’Auvergne is [...]
Last summer, I sent my dad some heirloom tomato plants from an organic farm in southern California. This summer, I received a box from FedEx, opening it up as I climbed the stairs to my apartment, I used my keys to cut the tape. It contained two tomatoes, swathed in bubble wrap, juicy and soft. [...]
I love my farmers market. I go to the big one in Union Square, and this time of year, it’s just bursting with fresh fruits and vegetables, milk and cheese, flowers, honey, and most everything I could possibly want. When I get home, I proudly take out each item and display it on the table [...]