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Sour Cream Cookies from Mable Hoffman with Frosting from Brian

We dodged a bullet yesterday. We had just set out for a doctor’s appointment in NYC, three hours away. Suzi checked her phone and saw we were to go to the Westside Broadway office, but we had talked about the Eastside office on York. I wanted York because a block away...

Watermelon Gazpacho

  The country has endured a brutally hot summer. Well, actually, just some of the country. Here in the Hudson Valley, we used our air conditioner one night. Just one. The other nights, if we wanted to sit on our porch and listen to the stream, we had to don...

Knotted Dinner Rolls [and more] from Fine Cooking [RIP]

  It's Thursday and time for a Throwback Thursday recipe. Sort of. Ten years ago this month, I drafted this post, a lovely roll from Fine Cooking. I never published the draft. When I looked today for the Fine Cooking website, I discovered that the magazine was...

Corn Chowder from Alex Guarnaschelli

  Chowder. We are into the first week of autumn and chowder is the word I love now. Tonight, the temperature will dip into the 40’s. And I can’t bear to think what mornings will be like a in a couple of months. The only hope is chowder. But, what is a chowder?...

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Cheese Strata

Here’s an idea from March 2015, and it shows why if you want breakfast, you’d be better off in Italy than anywhere else. This dish is deep and decadent. You might consider challah or...

TBT Cookbook Review

In 2015 I first posted this review of Jacque Burdicks’s lovely French Cooking en Famille.  Published in 1989, it brought rave reviews, like this one from M.F.K. Fisher: “French Cooking...

Cookbook Review: Searing Inspiration

Utterly delicious. Searing Inspiration was published in 2018 and I got an early copy. And then stuff happened and I lost track of the book. I uncovered it this weekend and truly regret the delay in...

Cookbook Review: Mob Veggie

Ben Lebus has food in his blood. He grew up with a father who ran an Italian restaurant and learned cooking early in his life with intensity. In college, Ben saw firsthand the challenges college...

Lemonata from Tel Aviv

It is the warmest January in 141 years. I’m not running around in shorts, yet, but I do look longingly in my snowshoes handing in the basement. It’s not that there hasn’t been enough snow to use...

Cookbook Review: Meal Prep Plan

You will like this book. More importantly, you will use this book. It is clever and smart and a tool to make your week easier. Everybody eats. Every day. Well, most of us. Suzi and I are foodies and...

Roasted Tomatillo Salsa

Roasted or raw? What do you with your tomatillos. Raw tomatillos in a salsa make for a sharp tang. When roasted, the tomatillo flavor is deeper with more “spread” across your mouth instead of that...

Cookbook Review Quesadillas

I’m beginning to have new favorite comfort foods. When it comes to Mexican, I have been a taco man all my life. I used to go to Taco Bell for breakfast: 3 tacos and a Pepsi to start the day. And...

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