Sunrise Mart

Today, just before the torrential downpour, I walked through Soho to Sunrise Mart on Broome Street to stock up on my favorite Japanese foods.  There’s a little Japanese store in Astoria, too, but I had other errands in Soho.  I’ve decided to start making my own sushi rolls for weekday lunches to save time, especially [...]

The Long Goodbye, part 2

Last Saturday, some friends were visiting the city and charged me with making dinner plans . After they’d seen Rent, I met Elena and Kalyn outside the theaer and led them to Florent for dinner. I told them what I knew of the restaurant’s history and it’s foreshortened future on the way downtown. [...]

Pink Pink Pink

Hi there. This site is about a month old now, and I think we’re entering a new stage of its development. When I first started writing here, I had a million ideas in my head of things I could cook, photograph, review, taste. I still do, only all those things [...]

Lime Frozen Yogurt

This frozen yogurt is possibly the most refreshing frozen treat I’ve ever made.  It’s going on the list of foods to get me through the dog days of summer, and I’m already planning to bring it to some outdoor parties this weekend.
I love it when a dessert captures the triple crown of cooking: delicious, easy, [...]

Turkey Meatballs

Sometimes I crave spicy Italian sausage. And in the interest of full disclosure, “sometimes” means at least once a week. But I can rarely bring myself to gamble the high caloric intake and possible fat-ingestion bellyache for the elusive rewards of sausage. Especially if I happen to choose a sausage that’s just [...]

The Long Goodbye

Florent will only be around another month. Yes, it’s been all over the news lately, deservedly, because it’s been as much a cultural asset as a culinary one. Ian and I went there last week just to make sure we made it in to say goodbye before they close. We both had [...]

Rhubarb Two Ways

I love rhubarb, always have. My grandmother has a prodigious rhubarb patch in her garden, and it was her excellent strawberry-rhubarb pie that made me love the sour stalks. Every spring I pounce as soon as I see it at the greenmarket, and keep buying it all season for cakes, compotes, chutneys, and [...]

Bean and Green Tacos

Only rarely do I let a day go by without planning my meals. I can’t even remember the last time it happened, really. I wake up and think about what I’ll have for breakfast, then what kind of lunch supplements that, and what kind of dinner I’ll have ingredients and time for. [...]

Mango Sorbet

It’s the beginning of mango season, and the grocery stores in my neighborhood are stocking both the familiar red-green-yellow Haitian mangoes and the pale yellow Mexican ones. There’s not a drastic difference between the two varieties in taste or texture, but I think the ones from Mexico are a little firmer and less [...]

Bacon Cornbread

Today for a special Sunday brunch, Ian suggested we make bacon cornbread.
The man is a font of good ideas.
I dug up my old standby cornbread recipe, made a few alterations in the name of bacon, and we had our bacon cornbread cooling on the windowsill in a little over an hour. The loaf gets [...]