My first taste of Tom Ka Gai changed my world. It happened when I was 15, visiting New York for the first time ever and already in love with the City. That bite of spicy coconut chicken broth-laced with the sour lime juice and lemongrass sealed my fate as a future New Yorker. The soup […]
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As you might have noticed, there has been an absence of recipe posts here for a while. Baby G, of course, is the cutest factor leading to this; she has a way of needing a snack just when I am at some critical point in the recipe. The souffle falls, the rice dries or becomes […]
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Ok. Confession: I have been craving Indian food almost since the beginning of this pregnancy and totally bent our cooking class to my whims this week! Even in the throes of my worst morning sickness, Chicken Tikka Masala with a side of fresh spinach was one of the only things I could even consider eating. […]
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Now that you have whipped up a couple of batches of homemade ricotta, let’s get to work making some bruschette with it. In cooking class as we were assembling the Scallion and Chive Bruschetta, we talked about what the words savory and sweet mean. Do you know how to describe savory? It’s not always salty, but it’s […]
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In the South, where I grew up, iced tea- sweet tea- is literally imbibed like water. While we hardly ever put sweetener in our tea around here, there are times when I miss that almost cloyingly sugary drink of Georgia, served up by friends’ families and any restaurant you might find yourself. At our family […]
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I'm a New York City mum of three children—Mira, 8, Liev, 6, and our littlest Yummy, Genevieve, 2. I teach mommies, preschool kids, and grade school age children (or "Yummies" as I like to call them) how to make delicious things. Read more…