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Great Hamburger Recipe: For July 4th Grilling or Any Time this Summer

A Great Hamburger Recipe by Chef Renee
Here’s a recipe for a hamburger that will wow your friends and family this July 4th and throughout the summer. Use grass fed beef for its deeper, richer flavor, but conventional beef works well too.
The secret? A disc of butter slid into the middle of the patty makes this [...]

Upper West Side: Recipe Roasts Pig in Alley and Neighbors Squeal

Pig Roasting on a spit in the alley behind your building?  Sound appealing…or ghastly?  Recipe, the New American restaurant at 452 Amsterdam Avenue off of 82nd Street, held a first anniversary celebration for its staff this week—and roasted a pig out back, a manager at the restaurant confirmed to the Westside Independent.
But residents apparently squealed. The [...]

Corn Dinner: First Course, Grilled Corn on the Cob

Yesterday, chef Renee Marton served up corn nibbles to munch on with drinks. Today, the first course of her all corn dinner–grilled corn on the cob with jalapeno oil and garlic chips.
Grilled corn on the cob with basil jalapeno oil and garlic chips
One ear of corn per person, for 4 servings
Step 1
Garlic chips:
6 large cloves [...]

Recipe: Summer Fish Wrap

Looking for a for a summer fish recipe for the grill?  Here’s a  fish wrap from Chef Renee Marton.

You can make this recipe with wild Alaska salmon. But if you’re at the shore in the summertime, you could use blackfish, bluefish, monkfish or grouper fillet—basically any fish that’s thick enough to stand up to grilling. [...]

Recipe: Make Dad Happy With Rib-Eye Steaks

There must be vegan dads out there, but they don’t happen to be members of my meat-loving family. For my hubby, and for my dad, both die-hard carnivores, when it comes to picking a Father’s Day meal, the dish of choice is obvious—a perfectly cooked steak. In fact, were it not for pesky health issues [...]