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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 [...]

Cocktails and Snack Recipe: For New Year’s, A Sparkling Cocktail; Caramelized Spice Walnuts

Usher in the New Year with Caramelized Spice Walnuts from Chef Renee Marton.  Pair them with a Sparkling Ginger Daisy.  There’s even a mocktail recipe those who don’t imbibe.
Happy New Year!

Sparkling Ginger Daisy Cocktail
from Spice & Ice – 60 tongue-tingling cocktails, by Kara Newman (Chronicle Books, 2009)
A daisy is a classic juice-based cocktail sweetened with [...]

Gourmet Magazine Gets the Ax

Conde Nast announced this morning that it was folding venerable food magazine Gourmet.  Bon Appetit, another Conde title, will apparently live on.  This says less about the durability of a great magazine brand, than about the ease and vitality of online.To be quite honest, though I’m a long time subscriber to Gourmet, lately, if I [...]

New Cookbook with Recipe: Seafood Alla Siciliana Transports and Instructs

When the winds are whipping up off the Hudson and you’re wading across Broadway in ankle deep slush, Seafood Alla Siciliana is the cookbook you’ll want to curl up with and cook from. This glorious volume, chock full of recipes that rely on seafood prepared Sicilian style, will transport you on a sun- and sea-filled [...]

Yom Kippur Break-the-Fast Recipe: The Best Noodle Kugel

If you’re a fan of the type of noodle kugel that can serve as a ship’s ballast, stop reading. If, on the other hand, you crave a noodle pudding that’s light and airy—dare I say, almost souffle like—then read on.  Here’s my post for Reba’s Noodle Pudding from last year. Seriously, it’s the best you’ll [...]