Category: Seasonal Dishes

Cooking Class: Maple Creamees

12 September 2008

As our weekly yummies-and their-mummies cooking classes started up again here in Tribeca, the occasion called for celebration.  We’ve often made things that most of the kids ate, but not all of them, but that wasn’t the case when we made maple ice cream.   The yummies used two plastic bags and a little elbow grease, […]

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In the Lunchbox: Quinoa-Chard Croquettes

11 September 2008

Back-to-school season  means back-to-lunchbox season.  For most of us that also involves scrambling around to find healthful things that our children love to eat and that are reasonably easy to make.  Last week a friend asked me what she could send to school with her daughter.  Since her daughter has nut allergies and because of […]

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Homegrown Yogurt

09 September 2008

My grandmother, a health foodie well before it was en vogue,  made yogurt at home back in the 1950’s.  She had to send away for the culture since there was no yogurt for miles around the rural New Mexican town where she lived.  When I was a child and she was helping raise me, she […]

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Balsamic Roasted Nectarine, Prosciutto and Asparagus Tartine

04 September 2008

     Last summer, a super delicious tartine , or open-faced sandwich, appeared at one of my neighborhood haunts, Le Pain Quotidien.  The salty-sweet flavors it involved-roasted peaches, prosciutto di parma, parmesan cheese and steamed asparagus-kept me lusting after it through the season and hoping that it would reappear this summer.  No dice!     Finally, […]

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Watermelon Lemonade

31 August 2008

With the peak-season watermelons showing up at our local farmer’s market, we wanted to pay homage to these sweet treats and to the trickling days of summer.  Appropriate for the holiday, it took a bit of elbow grease, but the result is devine.        The recipe follows.  Please note that a tarp might […]

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