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Grapefruit Brûlée On A Snowy Winter’s Day
_________________________ Woke up super early today to the odd luminosity and weird urban stillness that snowstorms cause. The 15th major snowstorm of the season, I am reliably informed by the...
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Hasselback Sweet Potatoes
____________________ I struggle with sweet potatoes. I think it’s a texture thing. It’s definitely a sweetness thing. I am nearly always going to choose something salty, savory, or spicy over something...
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Post Whisky Chai Squash Pomegranate Soup
_____________________________ There was a plan walking into Whisky Live. A solid plan. A good plan. A tremendously sound plan. With a room full of master distillers, brand ambassadors and industry...
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Creamy Citrusy Salad Dressing
_______________________ At the risk of sounding like a proper and true lush, the week before last was another week of very many cocktails. An interview with a gin maker, a story about juleps for...
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Bulgur 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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Obsessed: 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...
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Lime 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...
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Blueberry 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...
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Corn 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...
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Heirloom 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....
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Fried 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....
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Radish 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....
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DIY 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...
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Bulgur 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...
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Edna 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...
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DIY 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...
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Homemade 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...
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Roasted 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...
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DIY 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...
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Toad 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...
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