Cooking Simplified
I just returned from a trip overseas – first a close friend’s wedding in London, then a quick tour of Amsterdam. After reading countless reviews of Bakers & Roasters, I decided it would be a must-eat on the Dutch leg of the trip. The cafe itself is influenced by both New Zealand and Brazil – an …
I have tried some of the crazier health food “replacement” recipes. Case in point: chickpea cookie dough. Let me save you some time by telling you that combining chickpeas with a bunch of stuff does not serve as a substitute for the irresistible cookie dough you find yourself licking out of the bowl before baking. Cauliflower …
I have never been one to keep a jar of pasta sauce in my pantry. First of all, I love pasta. By eliminating a shortcut to the sauce, I like to pretend I’m less susceptible to vegging out with a bowl of spaghetti on the couch. Being raised by a cook didn’t help the case …
I want to make something clear: I am in no way insinuating that one should not eat the processed, shiny orange queso dip they serve at the ballpark. In fact, I love the stuff. Before America’s baseball stadiums got a gourmet face-lift, the only vegetarian options that appealed to me were roasted peanuts and nachos …
I love Italian food (authentic Italian food, but also the version we’ve created right here in America…we have a way of translating ethnic cuisines into less threatening, less exciting variations of the original, don’t we? Macaroni Grill, I’m lookin’ at you!). In fact, these days I have an Italian restaurant routine: I begin by dunking each piece …
It seems as though each summer season gets shorter; the weekend trips, lined up neatly on the calendar as little peaks of anticipation, pass too quickly. The must-do’s, must-eat’s, must-visit’s – bounced back and forth between friends’ inboxes in March – seem like empty promises. In Manhattan, escaping the city in the summer months is seen as a …
After a week and a half of whirlwind travel through Italy and France, I’ve come to a conclusion about eating in Europe: the simplest foods – from local produce to a quick snack at the corner bodega – are the most satisfying. This is obviously a subjective observation, based only on the handful of countries …
My brothers and I used to stand on the little grassy patch behind the basketball net, heads tilted back, spitting our watermelon seeds as high and far as possible – all in an effort to clear the fence that divided our yard from our neighbor’s yard. It was a tall fence and I don’t remember …