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Caviar and CodfishCaviar and CodfishMy daily life in food. With a little wit, a nutty boyfriend, and a dog named Champ. Recipes with every post. Articles
Holiday Wrapping: Lettuce Wraps
2007-12-05 03:03:00 An old English adage says “good things come in small packages.” While the first thought to come to mind might be diamond earrings pillowed in a tiny box, I find this proverb exceptionally true when those “good things” are sesame-laced dollops of ground beef and when the packages are gently sweet, buttery lettuce leaves. With ... More About: Holiday , Meat , Recipe , Main Course , Easy
In with the New: Coconut Fish Stew
2007-12-02 16:30:00 I am a self described “lover of all things food.” If you ask, “Hey Robin, is there anything you don’t eat?” I’ll probably reply with some snide food-snob comment like uhh, I don’t know, “chickens that are fed on cow feces,” or “McDonald’s,” but I’d be hard pressed to give you a real answer. See I’m ... More About: Cooking , Fish , Coconut
Daring Bakers Challenge: Potato Bread!!
2007-11-26 07:00:00 Daring Bakers Challenge: Potato Bread More About: Cooking , Food , Recipe , Breads
A Few Days Before Thanksgiving Pasta
2007-11-20 18:20:00 Thanksgiving is tapping her foot impatiently on the doorstep. She’s poking me, inquiring why I haven’t started preparing yet—I haven’t even shopped! She’s rolling her eyes and hurrumphing at me as I flip through my cookbooks, looking at Christmas cookies. Don’t get me wrong—I’m excited—ecstatic—about Thanksgiving this year. My sister and her husband recently ... More About: Cooking , Food , Meat , Thanksgiving , Recipe
Blog or Bust #3 Round-Up: Healthy Fall Dishes
2007-11-19 18:03:00 Hey all! There were a bunch of great recipes submitted for this round of Blog or Bust . To remind you, the theme this go-round was fall. We all love fall food?pumpkin, apples, squash, with it?s comfy spices (nutmeg, cinnamon) and warm-up your heart feel. So, Blog or Bust this time asked for you ... More About: Round Up , Healthy , Round
Attempt Two: Short Ribs with Horseradish Cream
2007-11-16 15:53:00 You may remember that a few weeks ago I threw a pity party for myself over some braised short-ribs. They had come out too tough, but the sauce I had made to go with it was too good to go to waste, so I ate the mediocre dinner and then cried to you about ... More About: Cooking , Food , Meat , Recipe , Main Course
Jean-Georges, Momofuko Ssam Bar, and Bouchon Bakery
2007-11-11 23:49:00 All in one day.* Jim and I ventured to the city Saturday, with tickets to Tom Stoppard’s play. We walked up to the theatre, passing an unusually large mass of police and cop-cars, as well as some angry looking people, and learned at the entrance that the play was cancelled. The stage-hands had gone on ... More About: Life , Living , Restaurants , New York City , Bakery
Brown-Braised Onions
2007-11-06 23:07:00 Jim and I stood in the sauce aisle of the supermarket for an inexcusable amount of time yesterday. We were looking for steak sauce. The last one we tried was horrible (yet expensive!) and I think past its (unlabeled) expiration date. So, we were stuck looking over the rest of the (too-small) selection of ... More About: Vegetarian , Vegetables , Recipe , Snacks , Brown
Morrocan Chicken with Apples
2007-11-05 03:01:00 I’m lucky enough to cook in Maria Robbins’ kitchen quite often. Maria, talented chef and author of some dynamite cookbooks, is Jim’s aunt, and whenever we visit the Hamptons we stay on her pull-out couch and pay our way by cooking for dinner parties or family meals. Maria, who has spent countless, laborious ... More About: Cooking , Recipe , Poultry , Chicken , Apples
Pan de Muerto
2007-11-01 21:35:00 That I am not a religious person is an understatement. I’m not a lapsed follower, a confused agnostic, or spiritual in any way that involves more that a belief in the Earth, science, and Nature. I am 100% atheist and very comfortable being so. So, I don’t believe we go anywhere after we die (though, yes, ... More About: Life , Living , Cooking , Food , Holiday
Paying for Gluttony: Shrimp Salad Stir Fry
2007-10-30 02:29:00 I am a glutton and proud of it. Unlike the typical red-blooded American addiction to “Mickey Dee’s” and Coca-Cola, my gluttony finds form in artisanal cheeses, dark chocolates, Sauvignon Blanc, and dry-aged rib-eyes. Whole weekends revolve around food. Dinners are planned weeks in advance. Jim and I are known to turn down invitations to go ... More About: Life , Living , Cooking , Diet , Seafood
American Tamale Pie
2007-10-25 03:35:00 Both Jim and I stake claim to Mexican cooking “know-how” in our household. Our reasonings, mind you, are totally unfounded. Jim thinks he’s Mexi-King because he spent a year in Southern California eating at “authentic” taco stands and burrito joints (and also doing drugs, which is why I discount his authority of taste ... More About: Living , Cooking , Meat , Recipe , American
Craving: Portabello, Bacon, and Goat Cheese Frisée Salad
2007-10-16 21:11:00 My cravings aren’t specific. Most of the time, planning dinner, I sense the type of dish I want–spicy, woodsy, basic bland, sweet, pungent, delicate—and I’ll go from there. I’ll often yearn for general flavors, the ol’ sweet tooth actin’ up, but I hardly ever crave a certain food. And then there’s goat cheese. I’ll be ... More About: Cooking , Recipe , Cheese , Salad , Healthy
Finally Fall: Chunky Spiced Cranberry-Applesauce
2007-10-13 20:54:00 After a September and early October of 87º heat and sticky humid weather, yesterday was the first real day of Fall . Leaves have been on the ground, mind you, for about two weeks, and the last day of Summer’s well past, but it wasn’t Fall. New Jersey (and the rest of the country ... More About: Finally , Cranberry , Applesauce , Chun
Hey Shorty: Braised Short Ribs
2007-10-11 03:30:00 In a country where food is prized for it’s cheap prices, quality time is considered an hour in front of the TV watching 24, and “fast and easy” recipes are all the rage in cookbooks and food network shows, it’s easy to understand why one would want to write a braised short ribs recipe that ... More About: Living , Cooking , Food , Meat , Recipe
Blog or Bust #3!
2007-10-04 16:20:00 Hey Guys! I’ve been putting off the blog or bust because I couldn’t think of a creative event title. But you know what, I’ve decided against all that—Blog or Bust #3 is going to be simple. It’s fall. We all love fall food—pumpkin, apples, squash, with it’s comfy spices (nutmeg, cinnamon) ...
Just Let Me Freakin? Eat You, You Stupid Quail! Porcini-Crusted Quail and W
2007-09-28 16:40:00 There were many new and, er, surprising things about my dinner last night. See, I’ve never cooked a whole turkey, I have no idea how to cut off a chicken’s neck, and my dinners don’t usually involve feathers. Ok, no dinner—in my entire life before last night—has ever involved feathers. I bought freezer packed quail ... More About: Life , Living , Cooking , Meat , Recipe
Changing of the Season Blues: Ratatouille
2007-09-20 18:31:00 I’ve been sick for over a week. Sneezing, coughing, sniffling sick. And to top it off, I’m the midst of planning the first large fundraiser for my nonprofit, to be held on October 12th. Spending my days running around to the banquet hall, to the various art studios to pick out paintings for our silent ... More About: Life , Cooking , Vegetarian , Food , Blues
Saturdays are the Best Days: Farmer?s Market Pasta.
2007-09-18 05:03:00 When you’re living with someone, it’s easy to forget how much you enjoy quiet nights at home. You spend so much time with one another during the week that when the weekend rolls around, you want out of the house, cold drinks, and conversation with strangers. You don’t realize that all that time during ... More About: Cooking , Market , Recipe , Pasta , Days
Where Art Thou, Farro?
More articles from this author:2007-09-12 22:04:00 Oh, Farro, Farro. Where art thou Farro? I have checked in Whole Foods. I have checked the markets. I have checked Amazon for god’s sake, Farro! (Okay, Okay, I found Farro on Amazon, but I simply refuse to pay that shipping cost.) Recently, I’ve been on a new grain kick, trying all those ambiguous and formerly ... More About: Living , Cooking , Snacks , Sides , Healthy 1, 2, 3 |
