As you can tell, I LOVE Food 52, I’m not kidding. I’ve even sent them fan letters! So when I saw this recipe I stopped dead in my tracks! It looked so interesting and delicious that I HAD to know what it tasted like, and what magic I needed in order to make something [...]
For many, many, many years I gave a NY Day party. It started as a NY Eve party when I was in my late teens or early 20's, and then as time progressed it moved to a NY brunch, and then since no one (including the party giver) wanted to get up in time for [...]
Ok, the actual recipes says Asian-Style Boneless Beef Ribs, but they didn't have any boneless ones in the market today, so I made them with bone in. And really, where's the harm? Having the bones in meat adds so much flavor. This is the second recipe I've tried out of Pressure Cooker Perfection by [...]
All of us food bloggers are in a tizzy over the new book from America's Test Kitchen called Pressure Cooker Perfection. Pressure cookers are not used as much in America as they are in other parts of the world, I think we are still kind of afraid of them based on stories of [...]
Recently I was interviewed by Gary House from Food Blog Radio: http://www.foodblogradio.com Gary is on a mission to bring the people behind food blogs out into the open so that we can get to know them, learn what drives them, and what their creative process is. Gary spoke to me a few weeks ago, [...]
Several of us daughters of the Dimotakis family have birthdays in January and February, and those of us who live close to each other have made it our tradition to get together during our birthday months to have lunch or dinner at Kokkari, our favorite local Greek restaurant and today was the day. Typically [...]
This is the time of year for baking and for apples. Last week a friend forwarded a link from the Letters From a Hill Farm blog which featured a buttermilk apple snack cake. I received the link on Friday and of course baked the cake first thing Saturday morning, and I do mean first [...]
Being a sucker for a flourless chocolate cake, and being a sucker for trying different kinds of flours in recipes it was no surprise that I would be smitten with this recipe from Smitten Kitchen. I like the texture of it. I beat it long as suggested on the recipe to make sure [...]
We are heading into tomato season and since we’ve had many good hot days I’m guessing it will be a good year. I can only guess about that since I have a black thumb! I may have come from a family of farmers but I’m a city dweller on my father’s side and did [...]
Most of Montclair was shut down for July 4th. Claire and I had some errands to do and had planned to have lunch at Kakui. A couple of our errands were thwarted by holiday closures so we started thinking we may need a plan B for lunch but luckily Kakui was open. Kakui is [...]
