Archive for August, 2008

Yee Eng Home Cooking

Sometimes a little spontaneity will result in big or positive rewards. That’s what happened with my friends and I with Yee Eng Home Cooking. So it all started out with me craving for cheap fried dumplings at the Dumpling House since we were in the area. I never know the exact street [...]


Market Watch: Acorn Squash

It seems like only yesterday that I was excited about the arrival of summer squash, and now the fall is upon us. Is there any better indicator of the season than the arrival of acorn squash at the market?
Last year I made some acorn squash gnocchi which came out pretty good.


Carottes Râpées

carottes râpées

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My sister, who lives in Wisconsin, found herself with an over-abundance of carrots and asked me for suggestions for what to do with them. I remembered an article I’d seen about carrotes râpées, which is apparently a popular dish in France, linked from the Amateur Gourmet. Here are [...]


Red Hook Ball Fields

Jess & Garrett have discovered the Red Hook Vendors and it seems like they fell in love. Click the ink to read their write-up.
…we worshiped at the altar of jugo de sandia (watermelon juice). Now that we’ve been, we have our strategy down for our next visit…”


Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pies

In addition to the Red Hook Ball Field Vendors, another main attraction of Red Hook is Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pies. Tucked away in a warehouse space on the water, Steve’s offers homemade pies made with imported key limes. You can buy the regular pies in many different sizes, but the real attraction is [...]


Del Posto

For their final stop during Restaurant Week, Jess & Garrett hit up Del Posto. It sounds like a good choice for RW — I thought the food was more refined than at Babbo, but the experience was not as fun. Click the quote for their full write-up.
Batali and Joe Bastianich are trying their [...]