Tag Archives: Queens

3 Salads for a Beach Picnic

A few months ago we had a revelation: There was a beach…IN QUEENS! Jacob Riis Park is due south of us, and (without traffic) only 30 minutes away. Needless to say with the heatwaves this summer we’ve been spending many-a-weekend there. We always pack our own food, since the concessions there aren’t that hot. This [...]
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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, and there’s nothing that resembles a farmer’s market nearby. So it has been pretty unbelievable [...]
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Fresh Cranberry Beans!

With all the Thanksgiving love going to the cranBERRY lately, I thought I’d throw a bone to that other “cranberry” the BEAN, AKA borlotti bean. On a Sunday excursion to a 24-hour Korean supermarket in Flushing, Queens (one of the million reasons Queens is the best food borough!), I came across fresh, shelled cranberry beans. [...]
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Farm Fresh Frittata

Tonight was very special, as this evening we picked up our first boxful of produce from Golden Earthworm, an organic farm 73 miles East of Queens.  This is the first of 26 weekly boxes we will be receiving, straight from the farmer,  delivered right to Queens through the Forest Hills Tuv Ha’Aretz CSA program (learn [...]
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Saturday Afternoon in the Park…

You know the World’s Fair Grounds that you see when you’re driving on the Grand Central Parkway and the LIE? Well, that’s where we live: Forest Hills, Queens. Our local park is Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, which is huge and includes a museum, a zoo, a botanical gardens, the USTA Tennis Center, Shea Stadium, a public [...]
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