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Bonjour Summer!
by Eve on June 02, 2011 in Entrees, Featured, Photos, Recipes, Salad
I’m incredibly excited about the onset of summer. Sure, summer means there is no cooking without sweating – and, if you’re me, there’s no cooking with pants – but it also portends that a sumptuous bounty of amazing produce will explode into NYC from all the surrounding farmlands. And that’s sweeeeet.
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My Mayo Revolution
by Eve on May 05, 2010 in Condiments, Entrees, Recipes, Reviews, Salad, Special Projects
Folks, I say this with total sincerity: this is one of the most delicious things I’ve ever tasted. Light, lemon-laced, velvety, homemade mayo. And I don’t even like mayonnaise! (At least not the stuff from a jar.) But this has changed everything for me. And, if you have a food processor at hand, it’s very easy to make. Even if you don’t, some people will swear that making mayonnaise by hand, with a whisk, produces the most perfect product. So it just might be worth it…
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Asparagus Salad (and Dan Does Dinner!)
by Eve on April 26, 2010 in Photos, Recipes, Salad
Last weekend, I walked into the apartment after a long day of working brunch service at the restaurant to find that Dan (my most favorite person in the world, among other things…) was preparing a fantabulous dinner of grilled lamb chops with a minted cucumber-yogurt coulis! Wow! The food was delicious. And for once, I got to take the backseat. (Unfortunately, we were both so excited that I forgot to take a picture to show the stuff off.)
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Tuscan Bean Salad
by Lena on February 06, 2010 in Photos, Recipes, Salad
Every year at about this time, I find myself looking out and realizing that the sky, the Hudson, the West Side Highway, and the roof of the construction trailers outside my building are all essentially the same color. Even as Punxsutawney Phil is poking his furry little mug out of his hiding hole, I’m diving back into mine and seriously deliberating the feasibility of pulling the covers back over my head and hitting snooze repeatedly until June.
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