The Gourmand & the Peasant are on the move, so if it seems that we are a little quieter than usual, well, our kitchen is literally in boxes. We’re living on pizza and Chinese, so subscribe to the email and I’ll send you an update as soon as I have one. In brief, we are [...]
Another Mahi-Mahi recipe. Hooray! You could use any firm fish like striped bass, fluke, you could try shrimp too. I bet that would be good. For the salsa, make sure the peaches and tomatoes are super ripe. Its actually a good way to use up overripe fruit, when you’re sick of pancakes or tomato sauce. [...]
I have an enormous collection of cooking magazines. Sometimes I think I should hire someone to type all the recipes into a program like iTunes, so that I could search for a particular ingredient or season, but that would take all the fun out of looking for a particular recipe, flipping through well-worn and dripped-on [...]
Ikea recently opened its doors on the waterfront in Red Hook, Brooklyn. While there are some downsides, namely, the view of the Statue of Liberty from Sunset Park is now obstructed by a giant, blue and yellow, admittedly well-designed billboard, and no press has covered this eyesore collateral damage, overall, it is a well-received addition [...]
So those close to me know that I have been in the market for a new computer since I realized all sorts of technojumbo that is totally uninteresting unless you are a computer geek.
However! I discovered a solution that allows the Gourmand and I to keep our circa 2000 iMac G4, which Apple no longer [...]
Last night, the Gourmand & I had a genuine date night. Our friend was performing the opening night of his Fringe Festival show, and the curtain wouldn’t rise until 9:15pm. This is usually my bedtime. So, we decided to plan a date night, including the show, which was to be held downtown, in New York [...]
I made this for a Hootenanny this weekend. After lots of smoked pork butt, ribs, beans and greens, its a refreshing dessert alternative to all the red velvet cake and beer.
Savory-Sweet Watermelon and Pink Grapefruit Salad
1/2 a large watermelon, scooped out with a melon baller into a separate bowl, reserve the watermelon shell for festive [...]
i don’t know what beef stroganoff is, much less hate it. Now, I do not like creamed chipped beef …