Events – Page 16 – Not Eating Out in New York

8 Nov 2007

1 Week Before Ugliest Gourmet

It’s almost here. In little over one week, this blog will become a virtual showcase of the most horrendous cooked creations ever known to have tasted good. Just imagine all the re-learning these cooks are doing for it – making a go of mashing things once again, chopping with reckless disregard for uniformity, focusing their lenses on not the appetizing crust but instead on the slimy grease that was formed in the process. Can you hardly wait? Thanks to all … Read More

15 Oct 2007

The Ugliest Gourmet

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Events, My Events | 11

Restaurant food is pretty. Home-cooked food, not so much. Oh yes, we try. We, of the conscientious, borderline obsessive home cooking set, have every intention of making a meal beautiful on both the inside and out. But unless you have plating and presentation skills of the likes of Matt Armendiraz, it ain’t nothin’ compared to the pros. And let’s face it: after any length of effort in the kitchen, we just want to eat as soon as possible that which … Read More

11 Oct 2007

Seriously Corny

by Cathy Erway | posted in: NYC Events | 5

This land is corn land: Curt Ellis (left) and Ian Cheney in Queens It’s not a joke. More than 80 million acres of corn were planted in the US last year. Yet only 253,500 of them were sweet corn, for eating on the cob. Where does the rest of it go? Leave it to Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney, and Curt Ellis to illustrate this — and many other crucial facts about our current agricultural system and diet — in their … Read More

17 Sep 2007

Bloody Mary Salsa

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Cook-Offs, Events, gluten-free, NYC Events, Recipes, Sides & Salads, vegan, vegetarian | 12

As you can see, I’m drinking to the end of summer. Stirred (not shaken) up as a last-minute idea for the Salsa Takedown at Mo Pitkins, this salsa is my sloppy toast to another warm season of farm-fresh fruits and vegetables, many of which I feel much closer to in the wake of their departure for the fall.

4 Aug 2007

The Craziest of Kitchen Gadgets Go to Task: Blogging Event Round-Up

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Events, My Events | 25

Oh, to the joys of toys. And to learning something new every day. Let me back up a moment. When I purchased an antique Chinese cookie mold in a curiosity store a month or so back, I thought that the thing itself was so beautiful and ornate that it would engender the most incredible spawn in the form of cookies fit for an emperor. Well, it didn’t turn out to be quite the easy process, but in the end (and … Read More

27 Jul 2007

Rebirthing Brillat-Savarin

by Cathy Erway | posted in: NYC Events, Recipes | 2

What a week it’s been. Working and barely playing when it’s nice out for me always adds up to a slow way to count the weekdays. But luckily, a blissful way to end it came in the form of the second Foodie Book Club meeting at The Brooklyn Kitchen, where we tried to speak intelligently about Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin‘s bible of epicurean philosophy, The Physiology of Taste, as translated and annotated by America’s pioneering gastronome, M.F.K. Fisher. (It is a … Read More

26 Jul 2007

Last Chance to Submit Recipes for That Crazy Kitchen Gadget

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Events | 3

Calling all food gadgety guys and gals: This weekend, sharpen up those electric knives or butter up your confusing cake pan and make something for That Crazy Kitchen Gadget. We’ll have a grand old time admiring the bounty of these gadgets when I post a round-up in early August. Details at the link above!

29 Jun 2007

That Crazy Kitchen Gadget

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Events, My Events | 28

Announcing the first one-off food blogging event on Not Eating Out in New York: That Crazy Kitchen Gadget. Rules are simple: 1. Identify your crazy, obscure, mysterious, ineffective, obsolete or completely awesome kitchen gadget and remember to photograph it or at least describe it well in your post. 2. Cook a dish using the same crazy kitchen gadget. Provide recipe and photographs in your post. Remember to mention the name of this contest and blog in your post, and link … Read More

4 Jun 2007

Chili Champs

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Cook-Offs, NYC Events | 11

the tasting frenzy at Mo Pitkin’s left no chili standing For those of you who weren’t sweating over styrofoam cups of chili at the Manhattan Chili Takedown 2007 yesterday, I was there; and I survive to tell you of the glory that went down.

7 Mar 2007

I Cracked Peppercorn (and does anyone care?)

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Cook-Offs, Events, Grains, NYC Events, Recipes | 9

Being the breadwinner, they say, isn’t always fun. I can think of one exception, however, where that’s pure pish posh: winning the No-Knead Bread-Off at The Brooklyn Kitchen. Alright, I tied for best bread in show, beating out three of the five different loaves made by locals who each took twists on the no-knead bread recipe-turned national bread craze created by Jim Lahey of Sullivan St. Bakery.

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