NYC-based food blog featuring [mostly healthy] recipes, restaurant recommendations and how-to's
Once the winter chill hits the air each year, we all get a craving for the same thing - soup. It’s like clockwork. It goes right along with the desire to layer up sweaters and find someone to cuddle with. If you don’t experience this feeling, my friend, then you probably have no soul. Here…
The people at Giovanni Rana were kind enough to send me some pastas and sauces to try out and I really wanted to think of fun ways to experiment with them. You’ll see a recipe with their amazingly fresh ravioli next week, but this week, I was really excited to share this easy breakfast idea…
Pancakes are a relatively new development in my life. And by relatively I mean in relation to you, reader, who have likely been eating pancakes on a regular basis since you could chew. It’s not that there were no pancakes in mother Russia, it’s just that they took a different form - either as blini…
Fish taco, tortilla chips and house-made salsas @ Surf Taco in Long Branch, NJ. Pastel colored gummy bears drowning in peach frozen yogurt @ Red Mango. Emergency snackage at Penn Station with my cousin Donna while waiting for the rain to pass. This is the grown-up version of Hershey’s Cookies-n-Cream bar. Ah-mazing. Post work sushi…
Here is one of the dishes I created with my POM pomegranate juice. I’m not sure how the idea came to me but I’m glad it did. (Yield: 8 pieces) Ingredients: 8 slices of baguette Extra virgin olive oil 8 slices of brie cheese 1 pad butter 2 sweet pears, sliced 1/4″-thick 1/3 c POM…
The lovely people at POM Wonderful of California contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I’d like to sample their product - clearly this was an offer I could not refuse. This morning I received a case of 8-ounce bottles of pomegranate juice. POM is a delicious, tart drink that is a great…
