Category: Winter

Steel Cut Oatmeal with Maple-Glazed Bacon

11 February 2009

It was one of those weeks last week: left my camera in the back of a cab just before cooking class, my Grandma Cora (the last of my grandparents) passed away, and of course my week was filled to the brim with activities that couldn’t easily be canceled or rescheduled. So, as I so often […]

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Beet Salad with Yogurt Panna Cotta

04 February 2009

Some old friends, mamas themselves now, were discussing the Sneaky Chef and the Deceptive Chef–  or whatever Mrs. Seinfeld calls herself-on Facebook. They were  wondering which foods were the best, whether to disguise things at all, etc.   Somehow, Tribeca Yummy Mummy was very kindly mentioned.   Without evoking too much hoopla over food philosophy, my response  […]

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Cranberry Curd

28 January 2009

When I read the words “cranberry curd” in an email from my sister-in-law Elizabeth, I thought, “Ohhhhhhhh.  Genius.”  She is, of course, genius, and she and I share of passion for curds.  Yes, it’s a horrible little word for something so delicious that it knocks even chocolate out for my all time favorite dessert substance. […]

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Cran-Dates-Bran Muffins

27 January 2009

Another muffin?  When it comes to cooking and eating with little kids, it seems there is no limit to the number of muffins that you can make and enjoy together.  When I received a MAYDAY email from my sister-in-law, Elizabeth, last week describing a cranberry surplus and a request for recipes that might help her […]

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Cloud Soup (a.k.a. Potato-Leek)

22 January 2009

Back when I was twenty-one and living in my first post-college apartment over in the East Village, I had 3 lovely roommates. Two of whom were burgeoning foodies. On a cold evening in late March, one roommate brought home a big bunch of leeks and a bag of russet potatoes. She knocked on my door […]

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