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! […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Recipes Gone Wild: TKO ‘Buttermilk’ Salad Dressing
I’ve had buttermilk on my mind ever since my friend sent me this clip of the now semi-famous rambunctious ruminant–‘Buttermilk‘, a Nigerian dwarf goat playing with her friends. ‘Buttermilk’ plays […]
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Recipes Gone Wild: A Summer Breakfast Porridge
Illustration by Libby VanderPloeg In a recent conversation with a friend, I was asked “have you heard about the latest rage in breakfast?” Well, no, I thought. When it comes […]
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Recipe: The Broccoli Rabe Sandwich Made Me Do It (Vegan)
You may notice my father, whose name is Rocco, is always making fun of all our vegan recipes in the comments section. But what he doesn’t realize is my affinity […]
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Foodis Operandi: Put An Egg On It
Before the advent of the Bacon Age, when it was decided that everything goes better with bacon, I always thought that most things can be improved with one simple fried […]