I recently had the pleasure of spending a week in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where I ate some of the best seafood and barbeque of my life. Case in point: Freshly caught and steamed peel and eat shrimp at Dockside ‘N Duck. Also worth mentioning in terms of life-altering dining experiences was my [...]
At Rosh Hashana, it’s customary to eat apples to celebrate a sweet new year. I was particularly busy with school last week, and my mother was cooking the big feast anyway, so I volunteered dessert and went apple picking in Chester, NJ on my one day off. Look at this gorgeous box of seasonal, fresh-picked [...]
My favorite food to eat, but not cook myself, is great artisanal cheese. Tasting different kinds of cheeses is a great joy in my life. Last Friday I had a wonderful experience dropping by The Cheese Cave in Red Bank, NJ for their weekly $5 BYOB cheese sampling event. I had already visited The Cheese [...]
Happy Fourth of July! The third and final chapter of my epic lamb and mushroom stuffing adventure featured these scrumptious lamb mini meatloafs in homemade tomato sauce with soft goat cheese tucked inside. If you didn’t catch it the first time around, I had used this recipe to create the initial stuffing with ground lamb, [...]
The saga of the leftover lamb-mushroom stuffing from my stuffed mushrooms continued with these delicious baked puff pastries. Keeping frozen puff pastry in the freezer at all times affords me limitless fast and easy options for whipping up impromptu hors d’oeuvres, desserts, between meal snacks, side dishes, you get the picture- they’re perfect for nearly [...]
More goodies from Passover 2011! There are a lot of great bakeries in New York that make sure to offer all kinds of flourless pastry and cake options for observant Jews during Passover, and preparing a huge Seder dinner can push any attempt at a homemade dessert to the wayside. But these macaroons were seriously [...]
