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01.01.12: brunch (kumquat-rosemary marmalade over goat cheese and toast)
Published on 2012-02-12 09:00:38
Did you know that Stamford’s motto is “Stamford: the city that works?” It’s kind of prosaic until you realize how many companies have offices here: from international banks to cosmetic giants to The Maury Povich Show. (Seriously–the studio where it, Jerry Springer and the show starring one of Jerry Springer’s security guys is on the next [...]
Tales from the Fairway cheese counter: Moliterno laced with black truffle.
Published on 2012-02-01 09:00:14
Moliterno laced with black truffle Truffle-laced anything, if you ask me, should come under a great deal of scrutiny. There was a great article in the New York Times from a few years ago that blew the lid off of the “magic” of truffle-infused-olive oil and frankly, had me wary of anything that claimed to [...]
01.03.12: dinner (first pizzas of the new year: tomato pie with scallions and bacon and a white pie with ricotta, prosciutto di parma and arugula)
Published on 2012-01-12 08:00:45
I hope the holiday season gave you all time to be still and reflect on the year as it passed perhaps via most golden and perfect of all meditation opportunities, fooling around in your kitchen with no pressing need to generate a large or timely meal, maybe utilizing a night or two in that golden [...]
12.29.11: dinner (roast beef sandwiches with grilled red onions and radish slaw from ‘wichcraft)
Published on 2012-01-09 09:00:31
While I tend to keep these thoughts off of the blog (mainly because Michael doesn’t want this to turn into a let’s-bash-celebrity-chefs snarkfest, a request I can understand), when around friends or coworkers I am known for being a bit…opinionated about various food personalities. My ire is usually only aimed at a select few who [...]
12.28.11: dinner (momofuku’s chicken and egg)
Published on 2012-01-06 09:00:36
Neither Michael nor I said the actual words over the course of the last week of 2011, but in retrospect it was pretty clear we were both missing our tiny kitchen after four days of holiday celebrating with not much opportunity to get behind the stove. Day two of our mini-we-miss-New-York-Week (subtitle: the week we [...]
12.27.11: dinner (rib roast and Tom Colicchio’s orecchiette with artichoke, cabbage, and cranberry beans)
Published on 2012-01-04 09:00:47
One of the downsides in traveling to celebrate the holidays is not having a reason to buy any of the special holiday-only products that are usually in one’s supermarket meat department. At Fairway this is particularly difficult when you see such fascinating things like goose or capon or the crown roasts of lamb and pork [...]
David Chang’s ginger scallion sauce.
Published on 2011-12-23 09:00:21
Were I not fairly certain that doing this would elicit more than a few odd glances (and if it lasted more than a day or two), I would make an enormous batch of David Chang’s ginger scallion sauce, dole it out into quart-sized containers and give it to people as holiday gifts. While not nearly [...]
12.03.11: dinner (orecchiette with sun-dried tomatoes, tarragon, veal stock and some other stuff)
Published on 2011-12-18 09:00:08
You know how when you make a tomato sauce and there’s all of those dark red or purple bits on the side of the pan? I want to make this sauce taste like that. –Michael on the way home from Fairway after I nagged him to death about his super-secretive sauce idea. It’s been a [...]
10.20.11: dinner (marinated hanger steak ssäm from momofuku)
Published on 2011-10-21 08:08:16
I know, I know. We’re egregiously late in jumping on the David Chang/Momofuku bandwagon, but better late then never, right? This is what I’m chanting to myself as I write this post, feeling horribly out of date for never venturing even once to the East Village to try one of his Momofuku iterations, but in my [...]
10.10.11 (dinner–first night with Ferran Adria’s Family Meal, last night as a twentysomething)
Published on 2011-10-13 09:27:03
Turning thirty is a big deal…unless you work in market research. While I had no problem milking the day for a few nice things–like two glasses of delicious wine at Barcelona on Tuesday–I can say upon reflection that I think I struggled more with turning 25 (and therefore will do the same once 35 rolls around) because [...]