One of the added bonuses of writing a cooking blog is that your relatives invite you over for dinner more often. Sunday afternoon some friends and I got lost in Corona Park and I nearly missed dinner, caught and cooked by my brother-in-law Paul.
As spring approaches, Striped Bass make their annual migration north along the [...]
***This week at the farmers market is on hiatus. Here’s a dispatch from Vermont.***
…once again, although I do wish I had a reliable and functioning rototiller at my disposal…… began turning over the garden by shovel 2day: GARDENING THE HARD WAY.
-DAVE
Last Saturday I was cleaning up my kitchen when I spotted a jar of dried chickpeas. I absentmindedly threw some in a pot to soak without any kind of plan in mind as to what I would do about them. I sort of forgot about them until Sunday, when I noticed the pot still sitting [...]
I didn’t think I’d make it down to the farmers market this week, but I was able to get down there late Saturday afternoon. When I got to Union Square it was so jammed with people that I nearly turned around and went home again. But I braved the crowds and was rewarded with something [...]
A few summers ago I had salad at a restaurant in Brooklyn that was topped with a couple of thin slivers of preserved lemon peel. It was the first time I had ever had them and they were delightful. Then this past March I saw a big basket of meyer lemons in the grocery store [...]
