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Zoom A little bit of Austin in Brooklyn. Queso, Bloody Maria, margs, and breakfast tacos with @sjbartnik (Taken with Instagram at Gueros)

A little bit of Austin in Brooklyn. Queso, Bloody Maria, margs, and breakfast tacos with @sjbartnik (Taken with Instagram at Gueros)

05.20.12 ♥ 0
Zoom npr: tballardbrown: We know we need to eat more vegetables. The challenge is to do it with flavor and variety. So we’ve become creative. (via Kitchen Window: Even Your Mother Will Approve Of Vegetable Chips) Photo: Susan Russo for NPR There are recipes! Kale chips Smoked Paprika Carrot And Parsnip Chips Curried Sweet Potato Chips Simple Salted Beet Chips Chili-Lime Plantain Chips

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tballardbrown:

We know we need to eat more vegetables. The challenge is to do it with flavor and variety. So we’ve become creative. (via Kitchen Window: Even Your Mother Will Approve Of Vegetable Chips)

Photo: Susan Russo for NPR

There are recipes!

Kale chips

Smoked Paprika Carrot And Parsnip Chips

Curried Sweet Potato Chips

Simple Salted Beet Chips

Chili-Lime Plantain Chips

05.16.12 ♥ 565
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Zoom Have ten minutes? You, too, can cook a tasty clam lunch. Chop 2 slices of bacon into small pieces and cook over high heat in a saucepan.  When fat is rendered and bacon bits brown, add a cup of beer and lots of sliced green onions (including white stems).  Rinse clams (I used 10, but this recipe should work for 6-12 clams, easily) and add to saucepan to steam once the beer is boiling, covered, until clams open. (Discard any unopen clams - they’re dead and can’t be trusted.) Taste, and add more beer before removing from heat if the bacon has made the broth too salty. Transfer to bowl and serve hot. Sop up the leftover sauce with toasted bread. If you prefer, you can use white wine instead of beer, or garlic/shallots instead of green onions. I happened to have some fantastic farmers’ market green onions on hand so I used those. Liberally.

Have ten minutes? You, too, can cook a tasty clam lunch.

  1. Chop 2 slices of bacon into small pieces and cook over high heat in a saucepan. 
  2. When fat is rendered and bacon bits brown, add a cup of beer and lots of sliced green onions (including white stems). 
  3. Rinse clams (I used 10, but this recipe should work for 6-12 clams, easily) and add to saucepan to steam once the beer is boiling, covered, until clams open. (Discard any unopen clams - they’re dead and can’t be trusted.) Taste, and add more beer before removing from heat if the bacon has made the broth too salty.
  4. Transfer to bowl and serve hot. Sop up the leftover sauce with toasted bread.
If you prefer, you can use white wine instead of beer, or garlic/shallots instead of green onions. I happened to have some fantastic farmers’ market green onions on hand so I used those. Liberally.
05.14.12 ♥ 1
Zoom ?uestlove and Momofuku team up for Food Bank of New York with a fried chicken bonanza.  Reservations taken for parties of 6 only. Guarantees 12 pieces of ?’s drumsticks for $50. For reservations, email questlovesfood@momofuku.com (reservations will only be taken after 10am today) with name, number and preferred time slots in order of preference. Seatings: 5:30-6pm, 7:30-8pm and 9:30-10pm

?uestlove and Momofuku team up for Food Bank of New York with a fried chicken bonanza. 

Reservations taken for parties of 6 only. Guarantees 12 pieces of ?’s drumsticks for $50.

For reservations, email questlovesfood@momofuku.com (reservations will only be taken after 10am today) with name, number and preferred time slots in order of preference.

Seatings: 5:30-6pm, 7:30-8pm and 9:30-10pm

05.11.12 ♥ 0
Zoom Vestige of my LA days. No, I don’t plan to wear it ever again. Happy Cinco. (Taken with instagram)

Vestige of my LA days. No, I don’t plan to wear it ever again. Happy Cinco. (Taken with instagram)

05.05.12 ♥ 0
Zoom The happiest sake glasses ever. (Taken with Instagram at Sakagura)

The happiest sake glasses ever. (Taken with Instagram at Sakagura)

04.28.12 ♥ 0
Zoom The “Elvis” cupcake from Robicelli’s. I tried it for the first time at DeKalb Market a couple weekends ago: banana cupcake topped with a bacon-infused, peanut butter buttercream frosting and bacon bits. I nearly wept after I savored the last bite. You should go try one. DeKalb Market is doing $1 mimosas again this weekend until 2 pm. Go get ‘em, tiger. Elvis cupcake photo from Spacegirl’s Instagram.

The “Elvis” cupcake from Robicelli’s. I tried it for the first time at DeKalb Market a couple weekends ago: banana cupcake topped with a bacon-infused, peanut butter buttercream frosting and bacon bits. I nearly wept after I savored the last bite.

You should go try one. DeKalb Market is doing $1 mimosas again this weekend until 2 pm. Go get ‘em, tiger.

Elvis cupcake photo from Spacegirl’s Instagram.

04.27.12 ♥ 1
“ Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right.

— Mark Twain

04.25.12 ♥ 2
Zoom With my book in one hand and a drink in the other… (Taken with picplz.)

With my book in one hand and a drink in the other… (Taken with picplz.)

04.06.12 ♥ 0
Zoom I’ve only waited three hours for this. (Taken with picplz.)

I’ve only waited three hours for this. (Taken with picplz.)

03.30.12 ♥ 0
Zoom Should I feel bad that I ate half the pie and drank half the bottle of bourbon, or are congratulations in order? (Taken with picplz.)

Should I feel bad that I ate half the pie and drank half the bottle of bourbon, or are congratulations in order? (Taken with picplz.)

03.25.12 ♥ 2

Tim Ferriss presents two shortcuts to better-tasting wine: aerating via Vinturi, blending with an immersion blender or one of those hand-held milk frother things. You’ll notice the most significant change in taste when aerating older vintages. Decanters are lovely, but who wants to wait three hours to let their wine breathe? When I open a bottle, I mean to drink it shortly thereafter. I use my Vinturi wine aerator religiously, but I have never tried blending. Time for an experiment!

03.23.12 ♥ 1
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Zoom Time Out says that the tacos al arabes from Ricos Tacos on 51st St and 5th Ave in Sunset Park are some of the best in NYC. I heartily agree. It is a hybrid of a classic Mexican taco and a gyro. Spit-fired pork wrapped in a flour tortilla slightly thicker than a regular tortilla but much thinner than a pita. Avocado hot sauce here is the bomb. Also strongly recommend the taco de lengua (tongue) and the carnitas. Delicioso.

Time Out says that the tacos al arabes from Ricos Tacos on 51st St and 5th Ave in Sunset Park are some of the best in NYC. I heartily agree. It is a hybrid of a classic Mexican taco and a gyro. Spit-fired pork wrapped in a flour tortilla slightly thicker than a regular tortilla but much thinner than a pita. Avocado hot sauce here is the bomb. Also strongly recommend the taco de lengua (tongue) and the carnitas. Delicioso.

Taco al arabe

03.19.12 ♥ 4
Zoom (Taken with picplz.)

(Taken with picplz.)

03.11.12 ♥ 0
Zoom Giant “Prima” seafood platter at Prima NYC (vs. “Strada” platter for two). The ceviche last night was mackerel with lemon and fennel salt - delicious. PRIMA - $951 Chilled Lobster, Whelks, Periwinkles, 4 Shrimp, 3 Nantucket Bay Scallops,Ceviche, 2 Jonah Crab Claw, 3 Little Neck Clams,3 St. Simon, 3 Blue Point, 3 Beau Soleil, 3 Malpeques

Giant “Prima” seafood platter at Prima NYC (vs. “Strada” platter for two). The ceviche last night was mackerel with lemon and fennel salt - delicious.

PRIMA - $95
1 Chilled Lobster, Whelks, Periwinkles, 4 Shrimp, 3 Nantucket Bay Scallops,
Ceviche, 2 Jonah Crab Claw, 3 Little Neck Clams,
3 St. Simon, 3 Blue Point, 3 Beau Soleil, 3 Malpeques

03.06.12 ♥ 0