What’s for breakfast?

May 10, 2010

What’s for breakfast? If we don’t skip it altogether (I know, I know, bad idea) we try to be creative about preparing breakfast and very often incorporate vegetables and / or fruit for a healthy jump start on the day. This morning was no exception and within minutes we had a satisfying and scrumptious breakfast for […]

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A bittersweet & healthy pasta dish for lunch

May 5, 2010

Having had no time for breakfast, we were ravenous by late morning (especially with all the yard work that’s in progress), so I thought I’d make us a substantial, yet healthy pasta dish for lunch. The best recipes are sometimes derived from simple necessity. Today, for example, I decided it was necessary to clear out […]

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Eclectic and simple gourmet dinner: Chinese pork loin, chicken, cod, ravioli & sorbet

May 1, 2010

It’s always a thrill to have someone new at our table. Last night we had the pleasure of Vanessa Wauchope’s sparkling company. Vanessa owns a placement agency in Manhattan / The Hamptons  / L.A. / Palm Beach, and has employed our daughter, Julia, over the past several summers. It was an impromptu meal since I found […]

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Small dinner party & panna cotta dessert recipe

April 28, 2010

Springtime on the East End of Long Island is when ospreys, great blue herons, and assorted squadrons of all sorts of winged creatures flap and flutter here for the summer. Also, most of the “biped snowbirds” start to migrate back from Florida and points south. Our phone rang the other day and our good friend […]

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Robert’s FRC: Free-Range Chix au jus dinner

April 27, 2010

“How many different ways can you prepare a chicken?” Rosaria asked me the other night. She was watching me put two free-range birds up on the cutting board as I was getting ready to de-bone them. “I don’t know, about a million,” I suggested off handedly. “Why, are you tired of the way I make […]

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Forsythia & Fiddleheads at our table: it must be Spring!

April 25, 2010

The bright yellow forsythia flowers appear later in the spring out on eastern Long Island than elsewhere in western NY. As a result, we get to enjoy their beauty long after it has faded everywhere else. One of the pleasures of bringing our forsythia’s brilliant cuttings indoor is how beautifully it adorns our dinner table. […]

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Louis XIII de Rémy Martin

April 24, 2010

Cognac in hand-cut Irish crystal snifters The prestigious Louis XIII cognac is manufactured using grapes from the Grande Champagne territory of Cognac, France. It is blended from eaux-de-vie, some more than a century in age, then it is aged in tiercons, oak barrels that are several hundred years old, in its own cellar. A 750ml […]

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Dinner party recipes ideas: Paella with seafood & snails

April 20, 2010

Everyone likes a good paella, with all its infinite combinations, so what better dinner party recipe idea than a splendid assortment of fresh ingredients displayed in a paellera pan? Interestingly, before we set off on our paella quest in Valencia, Spain, several years ago, I wasn’t aware that the original paella recipe contained no seafood but […]

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Pickled Jalapeños

April 19, 2010

One thing that you can be sure to always find in my refrigerator is a jar of my home-pickled jalapeños – green, red or mixed. Ever since I learned the simplicity of pickling, I have applied it to everything  spicy: chilis, jalapeños, habañeros and more, of every variety, color and shape. All it takes to pickle about 12 […]

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Colorful Swiss Chard

April 19, 2010

 Nothing like a beautiful basket of colorful vegetables to inspire tasty, healthy cooking. Share on Facebook

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