Category: Winter

Family Brunch: Bacon, Cheddar, and Apple Frittata

21 September 2008

Our fallback meal of choice in this family has got to be the frittata.  It takes almost exactly 15 minutes from the time you start cooking it on the stovetop to the moment it lands on your plate.  Plus, you can use up all of your leftovers from the past few days and come up […]

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Cooking Class Yogurt Parfaits

18 September 2008

Yesterday was glorious here in the City, so we took our cooking class outside to make yogurt parfaits in the park.  One of the best things about making these parfaits is that you can be as over-achieving or as laid back as  you like.   A month back, when peaches were at their peak here, […]

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Apple Ginger Granola

17 September 2008

Because we live in New York City where great farmers’ markets abound, we can walk a few blocks to do the bulk of our produce, dairy, fish, and meat shopping.  Tribecans can pick up seasonal ingredients from March till at least October, sometimes well into November, at the bi-weekly market.   With extravagant gasoline prices, […]

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Ari Simon’s Banana-Masala-Nut Muffins

16 September 2008

We have our first guest blogger: Mister Ari Simon, Chicago-based mini-chef and fruitophile.  He and his awesome mom, a.k.a. Aunt Elizabeth, sent in this recipe for banana-nut muffins made with a secret ingredient, garam masala.   They sound heavenly, and honestly, I think that Ari and I might be on the same wavelength today.  I […]

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Cooking Class: Maple Creamees

12 September 2008

As our weekly yummies-and their-mummies cooking classes started up again here in Tribeca, the occasion called for celebration.  We’ve often made things that most of the kids ate, but not all of them, but that wasn’t the case when we made maple ice cream.   The yummies used two plastic bags and a little elbow grease, […]

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