If I Were Entering the Great Hot Dog Cook-Off Take 2: The Maki Dog
6 Jul 2008

If I Were Entering the Great Hot Dog Cook-Off Take 2: The Maki Dog

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The Great Hot Dog Cook-Off is less than one week away, time for our chef-competitors to put on their thinking caps and channel their most dogged determination. Obviously, I’ve been putting myself in their shoes lately, and this is what I’d do if I were entering the Veggie Dog category next Saturday: layer a heap of sweet vinegar-laced sushi rice atop a sheet of nori, place a cold veggie link inside it with a squirt of wasabi mayo, and roll … Read More

Unfancy like Me
30 Jun 2008

Unfancy like Me

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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.

Matt Greco’s Pork Sage Sausage
18 Jun 2008

Matt Greco’s Pork Sage Sausage

by | posted in: Demos & Workshops, Events, Meat & Poultry, Profiles, Recipes | 15

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 home actually requires little time, prep work and just a few odd ingredients (i.e. hog casing and nitrate)? Matt Greco. A chef at Cafe Gray, … Read More

Savory Asparagus Pie with Goat Cheese and Creme Fraiche
8 Jun 2008

Savory Asparagus Pie with Goat Cheese and Creme Fraiche

by | posted in: Cook-Offs, Pies, Recipes, vegetarian | 22

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 showering twice or thrice daily.

If I were entering the Great Hot Dog Cook-Off Take I: The Baked Brie Dog
27 May 2008

If I were entering the Great Hot Dog Cook-Off Take I: The Baked Brie Dog

by | posted in: Cook-Offs, My Events, NYC Events, Recipes | 13

Oh yes, you heard it correctly. The Baked Brie Dog, which was born, baked, and eaten at a Memorial Day barbecue this weekend, will not be seen at the Great Hot Dog Cook-Off this July. But it only marks the beginning of the hot dog greatness that the event will doubtless inspire. Who said hot dog competitions were only about stuffing your face ’til you threw up into plastic cups? We, slightly north of Coney Island, have much more respect … Read More

Mint Chocolate Chip Happy Cone Cupcakes
13 May 2008

Mint Chocolate Chip Happy Cone Cupcakes

by | posted in: Cook-Offs, Desserts, Events, NYC Events, Recipes | 9

As a friend text messaged me earlier on the night of the 2nd Annual Cupcake Bake-off held by the Brooklyn Kitchen, some milk would be really good to bring along and serve with the cupcakes, instead of drinking pint after pint after beer after eating cupcake after cupcake (after cupcake). Well, a night later I’m finally taking up that advice with the leftover cupcake scraps stashed in Tupperware in my fridge, and damn. Is this ever the best combination.

The Brooklyn Kitchen Cooks Madhur Jaffrey
4 May 2008

The Brooklyn Kitchen Cooks Madhur Jaffrey

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This has been one of the weeks where I wish I could just put time on hold and say, Wait — I know it’s Sunday, but I still haven’t posted my tahiri recipe from last Wednesday’s foodie book club at The Brooklyn Kitchen, nor the seafood skewers from the barbecue after that, nor that little side project from a trip upstate today, the dishes are still piled high in the sink — can we just digest a moment?? I’ve been … Read More

Risotto Loco
3 Apr 2008

Risotto Loco

by | posted in: Cook-Offs, gluten-free, Grains, My Events, NYC Events, vegetarian | 10

Challah! The Risotto Challenge has been fought, and by “fought” I mean “feasted”! I hate to say, ‘You kind of had to be there’ about this event, but I seriously can’t even remember enough of it. All I know is that I had to replenish the plates and forks and one point, and we’d put out 100 each. (And not everyone was eating!) Billiardsburg took a field trip to the swank tables of the ‘Slope (or just Loki Lounge‘s), the … Read More

Riso-oh-oh-to Challenge Tomorr(oh!)ow
1 Apr 2008

Riso-oh-oh-to Challenge Tomorr(oh!)ow

by | posted in: NYC Events | 6

Ladies and fellas: It is with dreadful anticipation that I kick off the twenty-four hour countdown to what I surely hope becomes the risotto event of the year. Big words, huh? But I am confident that our 18 contestants’ entries will dazzle the crowds; and that our astute judges’ decisions will be wise.

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