With the variable weather we’ve been having, I wasn’t sure what would show up at the Greenmarket today. I certainly didn’t expect anything as summery as peas to be there. They may require a little work, but fresh peas are wonderful in just about anything.
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The Sahara is the world’s largest desert, stretching almost the entire width of Northern Africa. Sahara is a Turkish restaurant in Gravesend, Brooklyn. I’m not sure how to reconcile those two facts. I’m also not sure how to reconcile the fact that the restaurant, despite it’s noisy interior and almost insistent family-friendliness, is pretty darned good. Not necessarily authentically Turkish, but good.
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I guess my friends and I are a few years late to the whole no-knead bread phenomenon. Don’t quite remember how this obsession started but before I knew it, I was eating homemade bread almost every night. Regular bread, bread stuffed with sausage and tomatoes, jalapeno and cheddar bread, and no-knead bread recipe turned into pizza dough. So after all that, I got itchin’ to make some of my own. But before I did, BOOM! Serious Eats posted a link to an easy focaccia bread recipe from The Paupered Chef. Focaccia bread is one of my favorite bread to eat and if I can make my own, I will make my own damit!
Results. Well it was definitely not difficult to make at all. My first try was good enough for me. Though mine was denser than the stuff you get from real bakeries and I totally forgot to brush a coat of olive oil on top and didn’t quite get the correct brown color on top.
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When word got out that a traditional Neapolitan pizza place was going to open up in NYC, the food blog-o-sphere went batty. Keste opened to much fanfare, almost directly across the street from John’s, a veritable pizza institution here in New York (it’s also the first pizza place my friend Jeff took me to when I moved here). Recently my friend Jess mentioned to me that she and her husband had been to Keste twice and hadn’t had to wait at all, and I decided the time was right for a visit. How did it stack up to all of the other pizza I’ve tried?
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A few months ago I was walking back from the FedEx pickup center down on Fourth Ave and I passed by a beautiful mural on the side of a building. Walking around the corner from the mural I came across a sign that read “Epicurean Delights From Around the World.” Of course I was intrigued. I approached and found that the place, called Eagle Provisions, also sells homemade sausage and other prepared foods. I was about to keep walking (I don’t eat sausage, so I had no reason to go in) when I remembered something I’d read only days before on Serious Eats about a place in South Slope that had an enormous beer selection. I was pretty sure that the place was Eagle Provisions. So suddenly I had a reason to go in.
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Strawberries were the focus of the very first Market Watch, almost exactly a year ago. Then, as now, I thought it was a bit early for them, but today I indulged on a $4 pint. They were juicy and sweet, and I’d eaten all of them by the time I got back to my apartment.
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