Did you notice the tasty-looking side-dish I paired with the previous post? I first tasted this salad at a cooking demonstration last fall, given by my good friend and talented chef Hilla Abel. I was immediately hooked. So I started making it – a
Something From Nothing: Fridge Clean-Out Dinner
These are my favorite types of dinners. You never know where your ingredients will lead you. Tonight, I was inspired by a small container of goat cheese that I impulsively picked up when I was walking around the Union Square Greenmarket this afternoon in
Grapefruit Chili Marmalade and a Canning Confession
I think I’m finally ready to come out with it: I have a tremendous, completely irrational fear of Clostridium botulinum. More specifically, my fear is that something I can will harbor botulism, and me or someone else who eats it,
June Can Jam – Berry Berry Good
We live in Forest Hill, Queens. It’s pretty urban here — while not as industrial as Western Queens (like Long Island City), or as suburban as Eastern Queens (like Douglaston), we straddle the line between the city and the suburbs,