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Brunch

Green Tomato Gratin

April 26, 2009
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Slices of green tomato are cooked in a creamy mornay sauce with a crisp panko crust in this unconventional green tomato gratin.
With the weather up in the high 80’s here in in Manhattan over the weekend, it really feels like we’ve skipped past spring and have headed straight into summer. This is quite unfortunate as [...]

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Peach Passion Granola

March 13, 2009
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Like most kids, I had fantasies of being an astronaut when I grew up, but for me, the excitement wasn’t about blasting off in a rocket, it wasn’t even about the spacewalks or weightlessness. I wanted to be a astronaut so I could eat freeze dried food all day! Those shiny foil pouches of tri-coloured [...]

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Broccoli Rabe and Caramelized Onion Frittata

March 7, 2009
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I was recently asked to do an interview with Studio 360 for a piece they’re doing on people making the transition from the business world to more creative pursuits. When the interviewer asked if I could cook something as part of the interview, the first question I asked was if she had any dietary restrictions. [...]

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Mizuna Sunchoke Salad with Shiitake Salmon

March 4, 2009
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Despite being Japanese, I used to hate eating cooked fish as a child. I think this may have had something to do with the fact that the only way my mother ever prepared it was overcooked, with a dash of Season All. It’s not that she was a bad cook, she did teach me to [...]

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Buttermilk Banana Bread

February 20, 2009
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Like chocolate chip cookies, banana bread has adherents of several schools of thought. On one hand, there are those that believe that a good banana bread should be more like a bread: dense, slightly chewy and not very sweet. On the other end of the spectrum there are those that like a sweet, moist, cake-like [...]

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Warm Beef and Shaved Fennel Salad

February 15, 2009
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To save money this year, L and I decided to stay in on Valentines Day rather that brave the crowds and prices to have someone else cook for us. It felt a little weird not being on 2 phones at exactly 10am on December 14th, to get a table at the most coveted restaurants, but [...]

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Apple pork pie with caramelized onion crust

January 13, 2009
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Sometimes I get these crazy ideas into my head. I experiment a lot in the kitchen and sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. Most of these experiments don’t get their own post here. Then there are times like today when I stumble across something so unexpected and tasty I can’t wait to share it [...]

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Cherry Vanilla Granola

October 18, 2008
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When someone says “granola” it conjures up images of a wholesome high-fiber breakfast cereal that’s widely considered healthy. The reality is that most store bought granola is loaded with sugar and fat and costs a fortune to boot.
This version uses unprocessed rolled oats, wheat germ and grade B maple syrup as the sweetener. It’s [...]

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