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TBT Idea for the Super Bowl: Turkey Medallions with Tequila Lime Sauce, Druken Red Beans and New Mexican Rice

  Sunday is Super Bowl and today is Thursday, time for TBT recipe. From 2015, here's a meal idea that seems just dandy. It's not tacos or nachos or wings. It's real food,  stuff you can make in advance and keep warm and serve when every you want. I know, some of...

And We Begin Again ..

  Sorry. I was starting to post again and then Suzi and I went to Boston for a museum show. And we got Covid. Second time. Second chances can be brutal. Speaking of second chances, we gave one to these cats. "I won't split them up," the woman said. She was the...

Roussilon Meatballs from Michele Scicolone

Meatballs? Oh, sure, an Italian recipe. Right? Wrong. This is French, from the Roussilon region in Southwest France. Too often we hear "French Food" and have images of Paris and roast chicken. France's food is as diverse as Italy's and French regional food has...

Lemon Herb Crust Salmon with Warm Lentil Pilaf and with Celery Root and Apple Slaw

Lemon Herb Crust Salmon with Warm Lentil Pilaf and with Celery Root and Apple Slaw Before you taste your food, you smell it and you see it. Gee, you might even hear it cooking in another room before your plate is presented to you. That is why Suzi is so focused on all...

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Duck Confit Quesadillas

For the Super Bowl, we did have guacamole and chips but passed on the nachos. We had duck confit in our kitchen and Suzi wanted to go upscale: quesadillas filled with that duck, two kinds of cheese,...

Super Bowl Idea: Warm Crab Dip

For Super Bowl, I have one more appetizer idea. I know: it’s crab again, like my Crab Stuffed Jalapeno Poppers earlier this week. Here, there is NO jalapeno, just the mellow flavor of warm crab...

Super Bowl Idea: Cajun Crab Poppers

Crab. Cheddar cheese. Jalapenos. Oh, and cream cheese. That’s a list of “comfort foods” for me. Now let’s take them all and create a comfort food recipe that is, in a word, magnificent. For Super...

[Blue] Corn Jalapeno Muffins

      This recipe comes from the lovely Mexican Breakfast Cookbook, a treasure from the 1990s. The recipe there calls for using blue cornmeal. Well, I tried several stores. I couldn’t...

Cookbook Review: Icing on the Cake

OMG. Just simply OMG. Suzi and I have a lot of cake books, and many cake decorating books. We’ve never had a book like this one. This book goes into our kitchen, on the island, and not on some...

Chicken Barbacoa from Oaxaca

For this Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday, millions of us will be dabbling with Mexican food. Nachos, guacamole, salsas galore, chips by the bagful. What if, instead of a nosh, you could serve a real dish...

Cookbook Review: Ama

Roots run deep. Chef Josef Centeno grew up in San Antonio, a capital city of Tex-Mex cuisine. He wanted to be a chef, migrated to New York and worked in Michelin three-star restaurants in New York,...

Cuba Libre Cocktail

Heresy. I committed heresy. And it was just fine. Suzi and I took a walk last Sunday from Tribeca to Hudson Yards, a sprawling complex of high rise apartments and businesses on the west side of...

Cookbook Review: Oaxaca by Bricia Lopez

It often turns out that the political capital of a nation is not its culinary capital. Nobody really goes to Washington, D.C. to dine. In France, you go to Lyon for the very best food. In Italy,...

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