Nothing is easy. Especially not figuring out what to make for dinner, which can actually feel like sort of a chore if you cook a lot. Having said that, I’ll […]
Category: Recipes
Spice Fix – “Seasonal Spices” Spice CSA
I’ll admit it. My spice cabinet is a bit of a mess. Â And it seems the more cooking I do, the greater into disarray my cache of seasonings falls. Â A […]
Recipes Gone Wild: Concord Grape Crumb Bars
A friend of mine and I were just discussing which of our senses we could live without. After a bit of thinking I had settled on smell— a decision directly […]
Recipes Gone Wild: Sour Cherry Far Breton
Following Jen’s lead on Monday, I’ve got more love here for The Bounty, plus a recipe! On my last visit there, surveying the menu my eyes immediately closed in on the dessert […]
GREENPOINT VEGGIE BURGER DIARIES: BROOKLYN LABEL
Last week was a rough for me. 911 always brings me down plus I got doored with a capital – slam me into the middle of the street – D! […]
Recipes Gone Wild: Tamarind-Curry Apple Chips
Stopping at a gas station upstate the other weekend, I had my first taste of this fall’s apple crop. A lady had set up a fruit stand just outside the food […]
Recipes Gone Wild: Brandied Fig Jam
This week I’ve been consumed by two things: A) finding ways to use all the delicious figs (in season in Greenpoint now!) and B) 90s hip hop slow jamz. Â
Recipes Gone Wild: Quick Ginger Carrot Pickles
Growing up, I lived a stone’s throw from Lake Michigan.  Nearly every day during the summer I’d go to the beach, but on the hottest afternoons, I stayed indoors. On […]
Recipes Gone Wild: Drunken Chicken of the Woods
Brooklyn’s been squawking a lot about chickens lately, but you hear more about the trend of raising backyard birds than you do about foraging for the fungal variety.  Chicken of the […]
Recipes Gone Wild: Roasted Corn Salad – What to do if you see a raccoon or have an adundance of corn…
There’s nothing much cuter than a fuzzy raccoon, even when it’s peeking out of a greasy dumpster in the summer heat.  Case in point here. But if you have the […]