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Perfect New Year for 8
New Years Eve is a time for elegance and extravagance. It’s pretty much the only dinner party of the year where black tie doesn’t feel like a crazy dress code. And much as I usually like to mix low brow … Continue reading
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Tagged chick peas, chocolate, cream, egg, fennel, fish, gold, lemon, New Year, potato, rosti, seafood, snapper, sour cream, spinach, white wine
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The Monday Treat – Warm panettone bread pudding
I was heading to my choir rehearsal when I heard a New Yorker having a really good day. A group of tourists in brightly colored ski jackets (why?) approached him as we waited at the lights. “Excuse me,†asked one, … Continue reading
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Tagged bread pudding, Carnegie Hall, Christmas, cream, custard, dessert, eggs, nutmeg, panettone, vegetarian
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Apple pierogi with warm apple compote
Last Hanukkah our friends Ingyin and Yosi cooked us the greatest latkes in the world and then promptly moved to Abu Dhabi to set up the new NYU physics department. Just the two of them and a whole bunch of … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, cinnamon, cream, Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, perogi, pierogi, recipe, vegetarian
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The Monday Treat – cinnamon pecan vanilla cheesecake with a hot toffee apple sauce
It was my birthday this weekend, and I celebrated with duck and pancakes with a side order of good friends down in Chinatown followed by champagne and cheesecake at home. Now don’t get me wrong, I love cake cake, and … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, cheesecake, cream, dessert, graham crackers, Katz vs Carnegie, pecans, recipe, toffee, vegetarian
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This dinner will get you laid – breakfast to take you back to bed (Eggs en cocotte)
It was the end of the Summer of Love for Lizzy and J, and they emerged blinking into the golden autumn light to find that everything had changed. The plants in her window boxes were brittle skeletons, his car, evidently … Continue reading
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Tagged brunch, cream, eggs, eggs en cocotte, J, Lizzy, parmesan, recipe, truffle, vegetarian
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The emperor gets naked, and Grace coyly isn’t telling – with a side order of butternut squash
Like something that only happens in the movies, Amazing Grace went out for dinner with the stranger she met one lunch time in Madison Square Park. The restaurant terribly chic and terribly Chelsea – Grace calculated that they were the … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, butternut squash, cream, experimental jazz, fall, feta, Grace, manna from heaven, pasta, pecans, recipe, rocket, sage
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – T-bone Steak with Creamed Spinach
Nick had intended to propose while standing on the viewing deck on top of the Eiffel tower at sunset. Secrecy was key. She had no idea. He’d been paying attention to whether she preferred gold gold or white gold or … Continue reading
This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Molten Truffle Chocolate Cup Cakes
Hot on the quest to change her romantic fate and prove wrong a nay-saying tealeaf reader, Sara attended a speed dating event at a bar on the Upper West Side. Upon returning home she realized that her new dress had … Continue reading
Scones, Jam and Cream
When it comes to matters pastry-related, who better to turn to for advice than a grandma, and I have, in my opinion, the very best grandma to give it. She’s been making scones for church coffee mornings, for jumble sales … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, clotted cream, cream, grandma, raspberry jam, scone
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – The vital importance of cake in the face of adversity
Concerned by the empirical evidence in her date planner that she had not had sex for 177 days, and feeling rather bleak about the prospects of getting any, any time soon, Sara did something rather out of character; she agreed … Continue reading
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Tagged afternoon tea, cake, cream, psychic, Sara, strawberry, tea, victoria sponge
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