Sometimes it’s such a relief to cook for the same number I cook for all summer long. It must sound funny, but it’s actually LESS thinking for me. I don’t have to hold back on amounts like I do when cooking for the family or testing recipes and even then half the time I end [...]
Each year when we visited my grandparents for three summer weeks in their rural home in New York, we’d spend our time doing essentially nothing. It wasn’t exciting, it wasn’t exhilarating and it wasn’t elucidating. Sometimes it was boring. The funny thing is, however, that now I look back on those days with a rosy, [...]
This recipe came to me as one of those happy accidents. During the middle of a catering job for 50 people, I popped what was meant to be a lightly cooked cabbage and squash slaw with flecks of both strewn throughout, into the oven. A few guests arriving, a few mini-catering emergencies later and this [...]
The Rockland Farmer’s Market opens today and through no fault of my own, coincides perfectly with this weeks column in the PPH about salads and greens. With all of the micro and baby greens available to us this time of year, the old stand by of tomato, cucumber and lettuce salads dressed with ranch should [...]
Bourbon Street Bread Pudding This is one of my favorites – and I don’t even like bread pudding! Pudding: Day-old French bread, sliced 1-inch thick, enough to cover the bottom of a 9-inch square pan. 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter 1 cup sugar 5 eggs 2 cups heavy cream Dash of cinnamon 1 tablespoon vanilla [...]
This menu is one that became a column somewhat recently, but the link will expire soon, so I post it here for you instead. It might make a nice entertaining menu for a smaller group of people – maybe for a Sunday night meal or if you are feeding guests from out of town. The [...]
Cranberries are sometimes one of the few things that bring bright color to an otherwise fairly brown meal – Thanksgiving. Think about it – brown turkey, stuffing, potatoes, roasted vegetable (yes a little color but not much) and the gravy. Maybe green beans, but if you are like most people and do the cream of [...]
Stuffing is my absolute favorite part of Thanksgiving Dinner, forget the turkey, forget the gravy or the cranberry sauce, if I don’t have my stuffing, I’m feeling a little bereft. These are a few of my favorites that have run in previous years in columns or in the Riggin‘s Windjammer e-newsletters. If you’d like to [...]
I love how cookbooks, unlike other books, get written in. It somehow always felt a little naughty to use even a highlighter in my college textbooks, as I’d always been taught to take care of my possessions and definitely not mark up my books. But cookbooks are a different story. They are only enhanced and [...]
A friend of mine once told me that when your chickens ate the shells from shrimp, the egg yolks turned from a deep orange to a shade with a little more red. When you used the eggs, it turned yellow cakes and light batters pink. My girls needed to try this experiment and I was [...]
