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Winter Vegetable Recipes: Cauliflower Puree and Baked Endives

So you went waaay overboard during the holidays. Didn’t we all? Now it’s January and you know you need to eat your veggies. Here are two satisfying and easy-to-prepare winter vegetable recipes from Chef Renee Marton. One’s a cauliflower puree; the other’s a baked endive.
CAULIFLOWER PUREE
Ingredients
¼ cup kosher salt
¼ cup orzo pasta
1 large cauliflower, trimmed [...]

Recipe: Roasted Autumn Vegetables for Thanksgiving

Who wants to eat the same old green beans for Thanksgiving? Whether you’re a Thanksgiving traditionalist or trend setter, Chef Renee Marton’s Roasted Autumn Vegetables are sure to please everyone sitting around your holiday table.

Roasted Autumn Vegetables
Chef Renee Marton
While I love Thanksgiving traditions, I also enjoy trying out new recipe ideas and food combinations [...]

Upper West Side: Natural History Museum Does Pickles Program

October 4 is International Pickle Day. There’s the celebration of all things briney on the Lower East Side, and a week later, the Museum of Natural History is jumping into the barrel with its own pickling presentation:
Global Kitchen: The Magic of Pickling is the museum’s latest installment of its global cuisine series.
If you’re a brine [...]

Greenmarket Tours with Butter and Savoy Chefs Slated for September

If you want a glimpse of how chefs buy at the Greenmarket, these two farm-to-table tours with Alex Guarnaschelli of Butter and Peter Hoffman of Savoy may be just the ticket.  Afterward, you get to eat a meal at each chef’s restaurant prepared from what they’ve gathered at the market that day. Here are the [...]

Recipe: Gazpacho for an End of Summer Soup Treat

Normally, when tomatoes start coming in, I like eating them right off the vine with a sprinkle of sea salt. But this summer, tomatoes aren’t at their best. That’s because the late blight fungus has taken a severe toll on this year’s tomato crop. So if your tomatoes aren’t looking too great, why not use [...]