Shrimp with orange, tequila, and garlic Do you have at least a few cookbooks that are actually quite good but you don’t turn to often enough, and for no good reason at that? I realized this was...
Drunken Bucatini with Poached Eggs, Piave, and Pancetta. Of the many things I miss about New York, access to the year-round greenmarkets can get really high on the list when I’m craving certain...
Fresh orange juice with strawberries/zumo de naranjas con fresas T.S. Eliot had it right: while April carries the promise of spring and teases us with ramps and morels and other ephemeral delights, w...
Xavi demonstrates my mood during much of the match. It’s been a tough week for FC Barcelona and its cules: an unexpected loss earlier in the week to Chelsea in the Champion’s League final...
Chicken Liver Tortilla/Tortilla de Higaditos de Pollo Tommy DeVito: Hey, what do you like, the leg or the wing, Henry? Or ya still go for the old hearts and lungs? Henry Hill: [Vomiting] Oh, thatR...
The end of winter/beginning of spring is a rough time to have blog friends who live in places like California. They torture you with their tales of how amazing the weather is and with their gorgeous ...
Sweet and Sour Fig Pizza with Goat Cheese, Shallots and Thyme Do you still have “Zou Bisou Bisou” stuck in your head after last Sunday’s Mad Men? (Did I just get it back in your hea...
Jamón Ibérico de Bellota Do you have those foods that you never, ever purchase (usually due to some combination of expense, availability, and no idea what to do with it) but long for anyway? Or foods...
Kumquat-rosemary marmalade over goat cheese and toast Did you know that Stamford’s motto is “Stamford: the city that works?” It’s kind of prosaic until you realize how many co...
Moliterno laced with black truffle Truffle-laced anything, if you ask me, should come under a great deal of scrutiny. There was a great article in the New York Times from a few years ago that blew th...
Tomato Pie with Jumbo Scallions and Bacon I hope the holiday season gave you all time to be still and reflect on the year as it passed perhaps via most golden and perfect of all meditation opportunit...
Roast Beef Sandwich with Grilled Red Onions and Radish Slaw While I tend to keep these thoughts off of the blog (mainly because Michael doesn’t want this to turn into a let’s-bash-celebri...
Momofuku's chicken and egg Neither Michael nor I said the actual words over the course of the last week of 2011, but in retrospect it was pretty clear we were both missing our tiny kitchen afte...
Bone-In Ribeye Steak, aka the best damn roast beef we ever had. One of the downsides in traveling to celebrate the holidays is not having a reason to buy any of the special holiday-only products that...
Ginger Scallion Sauce Were I not fairly certain that doing this would elicit more than a few odd glances (and if it lasted more than a day or two), I would make an enormous batch of David Chang’...
Orecchiette with Tomato, Tarragon and Prosicutto di Parma You know how when you make a tomato sauce and there’s all of those dark red or purple bits on the side of the pan? I want to make this ...
Marinated Hanger Steak Ssäm from Momofuku I know, I know. We’re egregiously late in jumping on the David Chang/Momofuku bandwagon, but better late then never, right? This is what I’m chan...
Noodles with Shiitake Mushrooms and Ginger Turning thirty is a big deal…unless you work in market research. While I had no problem milking the day for a few nice things–like two glasses o...
Carpionata Piemontese Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and ...
Smoked Pork Shoulder Okay, so I re-visited the local fire codes and electric cooking devices are allowed on patios. I can therefore speak freely now about the latest foray into North-of-the-border ba...
Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp September is always a strange month for us, likely because until this year we have always been tied to the academic calendar more than the regular one, so there’s always an...
Steak with Tomato and Red Onion Salsa, Orzo with Spinach and Shiitake Mushrooms, and Spicy Zucchini I abhor New Year’s Resolutions (I know it’s September, please stay with me, friends). I...
Hable con ella - Alicia I’ve been slowly making my way through the Pedro Almodóvar library, and one thing I’ve found that even in his most straightforward of films is that he always manag...
Steak Tacos with Avocado, Arugula, Caramelized Onions, Radishes and Cheddar So how ’bout that earthquake on Tuesday, East Coast? I’ll be honest–it freaked me out. I was on a call in...
Steak, Roasted Garlic, Caramelized Onion and Arugula Pasta Salad When I lived in New Haven, the two apartments I lived in were above the oldest drug store in the city and the building was old and bea...
El Cantú Vicky buried herself in work at the library. She put foolish ideas out of her head and concentrated on her thesis, but she found her thoughts frequently returning to Oviedo. Narrator, Vicky ...
Weeds with Sausage There’s always a time in the summer when all I want to do is to dive into a bowl of pasta that’s covered with a meaty sauce, preferably one that’s been sitting on...
Peach, Prosciutto di Parma and Goat Cheese Crostini Confession time: I am not a fan of melon. Any melon. Watermelon especially. I can’t quite explain it–I otherwise adore fruit, but melon...
Ah, the bachelor plate. A scant array of sliced cooked creature, a starch drowned in a bottled sauce- all that’s missing is a sad bit of broccoli tenuously clinging to the side, although for some gen...
Garrotxa and Queso Romao When we shopped at Fairway Harlem every week, the trips I’d make to the cheese counter were pretty seldom, because it required navigating past the deli and around the b...
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