Archive for April, 2012
SCRATCH SUPPER: WILTED DANDELION SALAD WITH PINE NUTS AND PARM
Young, tender dandelions are as green as spring itself. And their flavor, clean and sharp like the air at dawn, is what I crave now. Although the greens are found around the world today, their use in the kitchen developed a very long time ago in the Mediterranean. You can trace the name “dandelion,” in […]
Posted: April 24th, 2012 under recipes, scratch supper, spring, Union Square Greenmarket.
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BROCCOLI & CARROTS WITH GINGERED BUTTER
Lovely spring ingredients are just starting to appear at the markets in New York City, but you couldn’t really tell by a peek inside our vegetable crisper. Aside from fat bunches of kale and overwintered broccoli rabe—destined for meals later in the week—all I’ve got to work with at the moment are broccoli and carrots. Those […]
Posted: April 17th, 2012 under cooking, recipes, scratch supper.
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DEVILED HAM—THE ULTIMATE PIGGYBACK SNACK
Deviled chicken, deviled eggs, and now … deviled ham. This is not a rut. It’s a trilogy, and my inspiration this week is the Easter ham still commanding pride of place in the refrigerator. From Lobel’s butcher shop (since 1840), it’s a stellar example of a city-cured*, or baked, ham. There is enough tender, juicy, rosy-pink […]
Posted: April 10th, 2012 under cookbooks, culinary history, recipes, spring.
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WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT CAST IRON? TAKE PART AND FIND OUT
My former colleague Nichol Nelson departed Gourmet some years ago, skipping town for a new life in Los Angeles. These days, you’ll find her going like gangbusters at TakePart.com, a remarkably energizing website devoted to helping you find a way to make this world a better place. I’d forgotten how Nichol can sweet-talk anybody into […]
Posted: April 4th, 2012 under food, TakePart.
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RICK ELLIS’S STUFFED EGGS FOR EASTER
I wrote about deviled chicken just a couple of weeks ago, but never mind: There is no better hors d’oeuvre for Easter or other springtime celebration than deviled, or stuffed, eggs. I am exceedingly fond of them, especially those made by our good friend Rick Ellis. A food stylist and culinary historian who crafted the […]
Posted: April 3rd, 2012 under cooking, people + places, recipes, spring.
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