Recipes – Page 3 – Not Eating Out in New York

16 Feb 2018

Steamed Whole Fish With Spicy Black Bean Sauce

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Recipes, Seafood | 6

Growing up, pretty much any time I ate fish it was prepared in one of two ways: steamed whole, then drenched with julienned ginger, scallions and soy sauce. Or, pan-fried whole, then drenched with spicy, garlicky bean sauce. Later on, I would grow to love dipping fried fish sticks into ketchup and savoring every juicy bite of a Cajun-seasoned catfish fillet. But at the beginning, it was all about whole. Head, tail, cheeks, eyes, fins—the whole shebang.

5 Feb 2018

Philly Cheesesteak Dumplings

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Dumplings, Meat & Poultry, Pasta & Noodles, Recipes | 11

What doesn’t taste good in a dumpling? Good question. Another: Is there any festive occasion whose theme can’t be dumpli-fied? I say there is definitely not. So when Super Bowl LII weekend was approaching, and I realized that one of the teams playing was the Philadelphia Eagles, I decided to make dumplings with a filling a la the city’s signature hoagie. Cheesesteak Dumplings aren’t that different from Cheeseburger Dumplings, after all.

25 Jan 2018

Roasted Sweet Potato and Quinoa Salad with Chickpeas and Preserved Lemon

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Beans, gluten-free, Grains, Recipes, Sides & Salads, vegan, vegetarian | 18

There’s evil starches, then there’s good-for-you starches, from a modern-day health perspective. White potatoes are roundly shunned as one of those bad, rotten, festering ones of the bunch, bound to metastasize into a gummy tube of fat around your waistline. Refined white flours are bad, too, if you can even eat them without experiencing painful gluten intolerances! Now, I will never call either of these types of food “bad” entirely, but the bright side to these diet trends is discovering a … Read More

12 Jan 2018

New England Clam Chowder

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Recipes, Seafood, Soups & Stews | 15

Let’s start off a year of fewer regrets. It’s 2018, a good time to start getting things done! It’s about time to do things that have long been neglected and put off, like a laundry list of—well, laundry is one of them. And for some reason, I have never made New England-style clam chowder before. Let’s knock this one off and keep on going strong.

28 Dec 2017

The Worst Dish of 2017, Reimagined

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Recipes, Regrets | 7

Happy End of the Year. It’s that time of looking back at all the highs and lows of 2017. Best-ofs and worst-ofs. Instead of offering my take on the best food books of the year, or ranting again about Gifts Not To Give the Cook, I wanted to try to put a positive spin on one of the worst moments in dining of 2017, according to Eater’s Senior Food Critic, Robert Sietsema. Reviewing his list, you might have stopped, agape, at the photo of okra … Read More

13 Dec 2017

“Italian Sub” Lasagna

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Pasta & Noodles, Recipes | 6

Late fall, when the heaters turn on and the skies turn gusty and gray, is the start of dinner party season for me. The days of strolling around and sitting down in the park for an impromptu picnic are done for the year. The air conditioners have been deposited to their upper reaches of closets. It’s cozy indoors, and even when you pack a table with twelve guests and blow steam from the stove all day, it’s still not too hot inside … Read More

27 Nov 2017

Cassoulet and Rillettes: A Post-Thanksgiving Trip to France

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Beans, Meat & Poultry, Recipes | 5

The greatest Reason For Not Eating Out is having leftovers in the fridge. And the greatest reason for having leftovers in the fridge, of all days of the year, is perhaps Thanksgiving. If you made the requisite roast turkey for the grand dinner, you’re bound to have lots of bits and pieces of turkey meat clinging to the carcass, no matter how much of it you and your family ate. Many cultures can teach us a thing or two about that. But this year, … Read More

15 Nov 2017

Torn Cabbage Salad with Apples and Pecorino

by Cathy Erway | posted in: gluten-free, Recipes, Sides & Salads, vegetarian | 3

This dish is part-recipe, part-stress therapy. When I served it as part of a baby shower brunch recently, people kept coming up to ask me a) Was that raw cabbage? and b) How did you cut it? You don’t cut it, I told them. You have to roll up your sleeves and tear it with your bare hands, which I demonstrated by air-tearing. It’s a lot of fun.

26 Oct 2017

Winter Squash Wontons, Two Ways

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Dumplings, Pasta & Noodles, Recipes, vegetarian | 22

A good gourd goes a long way. So does a package of wonton skins. Both ingredients have been known to travel afar, to unlikely juxtapositions and international cuisines. So when you’ve got a lot of them, it’s tempting to try em a number of ways. But how do you know—before you’ve tried it—whether two seemingly disparate ingredients will go together in one dish?

10 Oct 2017

A New Podcast, and Kale Ice Cream

by Cathy Erway | posted in: Desserts, Ice Cream, My Events, Recipes | 22

I’m not sure which is more surprising: hosting a new podcast about food, or making kale ice cream. But they have a lot to do with one another this week. The new podcast is called Why We Eat What We Eat, and the first episode, out tomorrow, tackles the strangely swift rise in popularity of kale. Last weekend, I decided to make kale ice cream, since one of the discussions around the leafy green in the episode had to do with its versatility. It’s easy to grow, … Read More