Author: cia
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So I need your help. Starting July 2006, I’m going to be cooking. A lot. More so than I do now. The idea is to cook a traditional family recipe from someone’s country. I’d like to represent as many countries as I can. I want to learn more about other cuisines but at the same…
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85 Tenth Avenue on 16th Street212/497-8090$810 for six, with a few drinks, with tip♥ ♥ The latest from the Batali-Bastianich empire, Del Posto’s staircase, marble floors and plush seating all scream money. You walk past the valet (!) through the lobby and it’s like you’re in someone’s mansion outside of New York. Its 18,000-square-foot space…
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Adapted from delicious. Magazine Ingredients: 2 pounds ground lamb 2 large onions, 1 finely chopped, the other grated 2 tbsps flat parsley, finely chopped 2 tbsp coriander, grounded 1 can chopped tomatoes 4 eggs 1 garlic clove 2 tbsps cilantro, finely chopped 1 tbsp cumin, grounded a pinch of saffron juice of 1 lemon olive…
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Adapted from Cameron Ingredients:watermelon, cut into small piecesgoat cheese, crumbledarugula greensolive oil, salt and pepper 1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and serve!
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Adapted from chocolateandzucchini.com Ingredients:1 large zucchini, sliced thinlygoat cheese, crumbled2 tbsps sherry vinegar2 tsps fresh thymeolive oil, salt and pepper 1. Arrange the zucchini slices on a plate in a circular pattern, each slice overlapping the next. Drizzle with olive oil and sherry vinegar and sprinkle with goat cheese, thyme, salt and pepper.
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90 Bedford Street on the corner of Grove 212/741.4695 $100 for two, with two drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ ♥ We told ourselves we will find another place in the West Village if the wait for a table at The Little Owl was unbearable. Thankfully, we were seated right away when we walked in at…
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Our last full day was spent at the club house, poolside. We didn’t want to drive anywhere since we have to catch our flight so we sunbathed at the pool with all the gossip magazines we could pick up. I got more tanned there under a couple of hours than I did in Honduras. I…
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Sunday was still muggy but the clouds looked very angry. The sun stayed hidden so we spent the rest of the morning at a place the locals call Downtown. I wanted to cook for the S’s so we drove to Publix and bought the necessary ingredients. (I love supermarkets outside of Manhattan!) The produce looked…
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I can only imagine how bored meteorologists must be in Florida if it isn’t hurricane season. Good morning! It’s hot out today! I was packing my beach bag while the TV was on and all I could think of was, No shit. It wasn’t even 9am and it was already sweltering. And the central air…
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My first reaction upon arriving in Florida was, Oh, my god. Can it be any hotter than this? When Lauren mentioned several months ago that she was visiting her newly-retired parents in West Palm Beach, she extended the invitation to me since I’ve never been to Florida before. For a $145 round-trip weekend fare, I…
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10W 32nd Street between Broadway and Fifth212/594.4963about $60 for two, with two drinks, without tip I like Chung Moo Ro because there’s no queue outside when I just want to eat a bowl of yuk kae jang and skip the barbeque. They don’t have dining booths so expect to smell like kalbi because of their…
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I love making this mussels dish because it only takes a splash of white wine and some herbs I usually have handy anyway. Ingredients: 1 bag of mussels, about 2 pounds, beard and barnacles cleaned and scraped off 1 cup dry white wine 2 shallots, chopped 2 tbsps unsalted butter a handful of flat parsley,…