Long frustrating story, but the bottom line is: Keyspan sucks. There’s still no gas in my apartment. The good thing is, my friends have been offering me their delicious home cooking, and in one instance let me use their kitchen to make them dinner. It’s been a harmonious transaction.
photo of The Cherry Tree’s backyard courtesy of Meredith–thanks! Over the weekend, I celebrated my 25th birthday with a few friends by bar-hopping around my old streets in Park Slope. Little did I know you can now bar-hop on Fourth Avenue. We began at Sheep Station, at 4th Ave. and Douglass, and I was dismayed to discover it had changed overnight into primarily a sit-down restaurant (no doubt thanks to the NYTimes review), and there was no room for us … Read More
Despite barraging into every type of major media save for perhaps a Hollywood film, Rachael Ray still manages to lack the one thing that goes together with foodies like pears and chocolate: a truly interactive website. Serious Eats (www.seriouseats.com) is just that. A collaborative project by an all-star cast of food bloggers and writers, it’s sure to trump many other food websites with its creative and far-reaching combination of notes from food blogging world, and the high profile food literati … Read More
Some things I’ve eaten lately: Steamed frozen pork gyoza and steamed frozen edamame. Steamed eggs. Bread, croissants, fruit, cheese, vegetables, salad…candles.
Winter is upon us, and what better indicator of it than bushels of sunny, orange miniature citrus fruits? Like many people around my age, I was introduced to clementines as a lunch bag accoutrement some time late into grade school. Rather, I should say I was bombarded with them in multiples of twos and threes–they seemed to appear everywhere, not just in lunch bags anymore but in my gifts, Christmas stockings, and were tossed at me like hackey sacks every … Read More
This has to be the worst week for not eating out in New York so far. After giving thanks to all the home-cooked food and leftovers of the weekend, I returned to Brooklyn to begin the task of moving into my new apartment. This time, I decided to do it using only borrowed vehicles and not-hired friends. I have to say, it was a pretty bad move (pun intentional). I’m still pretty sore all over, but the worst part about … Read More
I tried balancing cold semi-sweet chocolate morsels on a salty cracker and was rewarded with the perfect quench for my salty/sweet craving. Cost calculator? Both items were free thanks to my roommate and the gratuitous back of the freezer. (Health factor = bad.) Conversation with self: -Which do you prefer, salty or sweet? For instance, if you had to choose one over the other to eat for the rest of your life? -Salty, probably. -Well in that case, how come … Read More
Hopefully many people reading this blog who don’t know me personally will have sensed that my culinary tastes are quite various and international in scope. But what I haven’t disclosed for this long and would feel irresponsible about withholding at this moment, is the fact that every Thanksgiving dinner I’ve attended has served the same traditional, no-nonsense all-American spread favored by the senior Erway clan of upstate New York.
NYC foodies! What have you got to do this Friday after sleeping off your turkey stupor and shopping ’til you drop? Spicy garlic dill pickles, picklemartinis, kick ass music, and good ol’ bar drinking might be just the weekend wake-up call. What’s more, the McClure’s Pickles cukes are all primed and prepped for the holiday season, at their most delectable after a 3-month steep. I’d go to this if I weren’t in upstate New York visiting my 93-year-old grandfather and … Read More
Maybe “cook” isn’t the right word in this case. This is a truly special installment of Here’s Lookin’ at You Cook (albeit my second), one of a New York exile. As long as I’ve known him (since his jew-fro-sporting high school days), Michael Manning has been a connoisseur of all things delicious. After living in Manhattan for a few years working for NBC, Manning surprised us by doing something that we all should have done: he took an English teaching … Read More