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Archive for June, 2008

Unfancy like Me

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Those of you who missed the second annual Unfancy Food Show yesterday, I bemoan your losses. Begun as a locally-focused antithesis to the Fancy Food Show, this slovenly stepsister event took place in the backyard patio of Williamsburg’s East River Bar over six hours of scattered thunderstorm. And a good time was had by all.

Reason #22: Your Health

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Recently, the New York City Board of Health passed a law requiring restaurants with more than fifteen locations to publish the calorie count of their menu offerings for customers to see. I commend this, and applaud those restaurants who’ve already complied, as begrudgingly as some may have done so. I wouldn’t want to have to [...]

Chicken Salad Days

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Ah, summer. These are the only reasons I stick it out in New York the rest of the year.
It all began with my first summer here, as a wide-eyed, twenty-year-old college sophomore. It was every bit the definition of “salad days” – living in Alphabet City with my best friend in an apartment [...]

Fish tacos, anyone?

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

 

Unanimous “yes”es flooded my inbox from the crew. I am so glad I’m no longer dating a seafood-hater. Fish may thrive underwater, but I think they do smashingly well on a hand-ground corn tortilla against cool, creamy slaw and snappy herbs, and drenched with tangy lime juice. I overheard mention of “getting fish tacos” while [...]

Matt Greco’s Pork Sage Sausage

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

I’m thinking it might be time to upgrade the ‘ol NEOINY hideaway with a Kitchenaid stand mixer, equipped with all the meat grinding attachment works. (I’m browsing them on Ebay right now.) The motivating factor is right above: luscious, freshly made, and deceptively simple sausages. Who knew that with the right tools, making sausage at [...]

Six Ways to Combat Soaring Food Prices

Monday, June 16th, 2008

You’ve been seeing it all over the news, but there was probably one moment in the last month when you felt the reality of it the most: Food prices are at their worst inflation in 17 years. For me, this occurred when I was comparing flour in a grocery store aisle. Peeking at the pricetag [...]

Just-Like-the-Parlor Mint Chip Ice Cream

Friday, June 13th, 2008

This is what I’ve been having for dinner lately. I don’t have an air conditioner and don’t see the point much when I can dip into a carton of homemade ice cream every once in a while. It does much more than cool the physical senses. It soothes and elates, bringing me back to the [...]

Plating Well in a Small Kitchen

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

I’ve done some horrible plating in my time. That is, most of the time. Like many of you, I don’t have the space nor the patience to bother with appliances that are used only to improve the appearance of my food, like a piping bag, or one of those ring molds that you watch the [...]

Savory Asparagus Pie

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

First of all: Holy heatwave! Bake at your own risk! I was kind of wondering when New York City weather would pull its annual trick of mutating overnight into a festering hotbox of city smog, in turn whipping us into hapless victims of stench. I’m still racking my brain for that clean water-saving alternative to [...]

Overheard at work…

Friday, June 6th, 2008

co-worker S: You know what I really feel like having for lunch? Homemade lasagna.
co-workers (chorus): Ohhh…
co-worker J: If you go to Duke’s, I think they usually have that in the buffet… the place downstairs?
co-worker S: (aghast) That’s not homemade lasagna.
chorus: Yeah, that totally doesn’t cut it… What are you thinking… That crappy place downstairs?… Not [...]

Vietnamese-Style Summer Rolls with Shrimp or Tofu

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Ughhh… I am not recommending you go into making this for the first time late on a Wednesday night. Ughhh… Of all the finicky nonsense that plagues much of gourmet, frou-frou, highbrow cooking, why this common street food snack so ridiculously delicate a process? I’ll chalk it up to two major things: my inexperience with [...]

In the ‘Pink’

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Isn’t it wonderful to discover blogs and websites that are so up your alley you almost want to inhabit their space-as-virtual living room? The feeling must have gone both ways when I was encountered by Sarah McColl, who writes from a like-minded crafty, clever and budget-savvy point of view at Pink of Perfection (even though [...]

Pesto Avocado Portoburger

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Warning: If you make this at your next barbecue, your vegetarian friends may want to stand up on the picnic table and leap into your arms, proclaiming forever best friendship. I don’t know this from actual experience, but I can only imagine, after many summers of seeing glum-looking vegetarians skulking from the greasy-smelling fume clouds, [...]