Berry Pancakes in Retrograde
I’m going to have to ask you to use your imagination on this photo. Scads of berries are indeed always attractive, but what this is really supposed to be is a teetering pile of berry laden pancakes...
View ArticleRoasted Pear And Burrata Salad With Maple Vinaigrette
I particularly love the bumper seasons — the start of the fall when you are still getting Summer watermelon and heirloom tomatoes alongside the grapes and pumpkins; those first few weeks of Spring,...
View ArticleButternut Squash Apple Pistachio Soup
I managed to make it all the way through this ridiculous winter with barely a cough, wheeze, or a sniffle. So of course during this very first non-freezing, nearly balmy week, I woke up with a scratchy...
View ArticleCome On Spring Fish And Greens
_______________ So there is more snow coming this afternoon. Which is technically the first day of spring, but whatever. Apparently spring is just a cruel and misguided myth this year, although leaving...
View ArticleToad In The Hole
________________ This toad in the hole was a full week in the making. It had been a very meat and dairy heavy late afternoon run through the late winter greenmarket. I had enough apples, roots and...
View ArticleDIY Candied Ginger
_____________________ Over the holidays, as I was offering a friend a slice of gingerbread cake topped with a creamy layer of buttermilk frosting and little bits of crystallized ginger and sugared...
View ArticleRoasted Garlic Pasta
______________ A recent inventory of my kitchen revealed that I own seven garlic roasters, of varying shapes and sizes. That would seem excessive for anyone not turning 100 covers a night. It’s even...
View ArticleHomemade Irish Cream
___________________ Twas the night before Christmas Eve and my handcrafted gifts had yet to be finished. Or in most cases, even begun. A month of some excellent planning and plotting had unfortunately...
View ArticleDIY Potato Chips
______________ I have to confess, I am not entirely sure who is even playing in the big game today. Even though I was once — so very briefly — a sports editor at TIME magazine, I don’t have a whole lot...
View ArticleEdna Lewis Potatoes
_____________________ So this is what things look like when you share Christmas with someone who works in food. (Or just someone who loves lists.) I took on all the elements of Christmas dinner sans...
View ArticleBulgur Baked Apples For Breakfast
_________________ Happy day after turkey day. Although Chez Foie was quite turkey-free this year. We had made the preemptive decision not to travel this year because of an extenuating familial...
View ArticleDIY Crème Fraîche
_____________ When I was nineteen years old, I picked myself up and moved to France. Just for a little while. No matter how much deep down in my soul I knew I was meant to be a Parisian, I also knew...
View ArticleRadish Green Pesto
______________________ So as promised, I’ve moved on from scallions to a new vegetable. At least writing wise. It’s new radish season. Which as you may already know, thrills me to very nearly no end....
View ArticleFried Scallion Roots
scallions before I do realize that it’s becoming a little all scallions, all the time here. But tis the season. And I promise this is it for a while. Well, a few days at least. And this is delicious....
View ArticleHeirloom Tomato Tarts
___________________ If you knew me the summer I was 25, you probably ate a lot of this pie. I had just moved into a new apartment and there were nearly daily spontaneous dinner parties all summer long....
View ArticleCorn Fritters
____________________________________________________________ Even I must admit that I may have gone overboard with the corn. After the ride to the shore, once we had unloaded the back seat filled with...
View ArticleBlueberry Basil Jam Morning
___________________ I am normally a night owl. I work best when everyone else has gone to sleep and all is still. After I have digested the day is when I write the most. And I love the nightlife, I got...
View ArticleLime Ginger Butter Green Beans
________________ We’ve packed up Chez Foie for the week and headed to the shore. Annual family vacation, three generations in one 3 -story beach rental. Which has made the cooking both amazing and...
View ArticleObsessed: Chive Blossoms
_________________________ The other day I was sitting on a bench in the subway station, waiting for my train with my very many tote bags of Greenmarket haul tucked under my legs, except for the bag of...
View ArticleBulgur For Breakfast
_______________ This has been breakfast everyday this week. Sometimes drizzled with a stream of fruity and intense blackberry maple syrup, sometimes topped with banana slices and blueberries, or...
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