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New Yorkers, it’s time to support your local small restaurants!
New Yorkers, you need to support your local small restaurants as they reopen. Here is Guacamole made to order, and a Mango Margarita with jalapeño (it was a rough job but someone had to drink it!), delivered, along with Fish Tacos for me and Duck Mole for The Husband, from one of…
If you want to learn how to paint like this, go to myblueprint.com.
If you want to learn how to paint like this (I did this watercolor pear), you should check out mybluprint.com. I took online classes with Kateri Ewing and she’s a fantastic teacher. But they offer all kinds of crafts – sewing, crocheting, quilting, pattern making, coronavirus mask making… and are offering…
A Magic Place
For many years I have gone to the Lake Austin Spa Resort, right outside of Austin Texas, to conduct cooking demos. In exchange, they give me room and board and treat me well. At first I just did it for a lark. I thought, what the heck, take the husband…
On Sunday, June 7th, I returned to Beat Bobby Flay as a Judge!
On Sunday, June 7th, at 10 pm ET I was one of the Judges on Beat Bobby Flay along with Michael Psilakis and Jeremy Salamon. The Show, Episode 2 of Season 25, was called “Gives You Goosebumps,” and the star ingredient gives everyone goosebumps, including Chopped’s Scott Conant and comedic actress…
Just wanted to share the inspiring video of my friend Janette Beckman’s recent photos of New York’s Black Lives Matter protests.
Here is the inspiring video of my friend Janette Beckman’s recent photos of New York’s Black Lives Matter protests. It is set to a song written and sung by José James entitled “When They See Us.”
Mom and Pop Cookware Stores
My last book tour has taken me all around the country, to smaller independent cookware stores in smaller cities that I normally don’t get to, like Des Moines, Madison, Savannah, and Anchorage. Everywhere I go I am working for my book sales. I have learned from past experience that unless…
I have been challenging myself to new baking projects and just made Gougeres from Dorie Greenspan’s recipe.
I, like you, have been challenging myself to new baking projects and here is one which made me enormously happy – Gougeres – totally addictive French cheese puffs. And it gets better – I learned from Dorie Greenspan’s recipe, gougeres can be frozen in the raw state and then just popped…
French Apple Tart
Note: No, it is not apple season, but I know you can still find apples, although probably not Golden Delicious (they are oddly very hard to find these days, even before the pandemic) so just use any apple that you like and also that you know will hold its shape. You’ll…
Giant Stuffed Mushrooms
These stuffed mushrooms are a giant version of a recipe my Mom used to make as a side dish. She would use plain old cultivated mushrooms which were considered very elegant at the time and stuff them simply with chopped mushrooms, onions and breadcrumbs. I started with three of my…
Black Bean Tortilla Pizza
Vegetarian Tortilla Pizza in 25 minutes with mostly pantry ingredients! I love black beans and the way they play so nicely with other ingredients. In this recipe, those ingredients include garlic, onions, and chipotles. Spread on cumin-and-oregano-scented tortillas, you end up with little Mexican pizzas. When you top them off with your…