I usually keep a little net bag of small potatoes around, since they are easy to roast for a worknight dinner. Or I’ll roast them on Sunday, and use them up during the week. Usually I toss them with olive oil, garlic, and rosemary, but this time I tried something different, lemon zest and thyme … Continue reading
Good Korma
Cherry Grove lamb cubes with TastyBite Good Korma simmer sauce and added Kashmiri chile (a girl needs her spice). Yogurt sauce and basmati rice with apples and raisins from Trader Joe’s. This was a quick and easy meal, although I probably should have simmered the lamb longer, to make it more tender. But it was getting … Continue reading
Alice Waters and more
There are, as always, myriad food events on the horizon, so here goes: A series of ethnic food demonstrations are planned at various branches of the Asian Food Markets: Filipino food will be featured at the N. Plainfield store on Oct. 9 and 10, and on the same dates, in the Piscataway store, shoppers can sample … Continue reading
Lemon Bars
These were excellent! And they’re from the Genomics Cafe where I work at Princeton University. Same people who run Prospect House, Restaurant Associates. While I haven’t seen them for sale in the Cafe itself (how about it guys?), they made an appearance on the dessert table for an event they catered for us. I’d asked … Continue reading
Funny Ad Award to Yardley Inn
I laughed outloud when I saw the Yardley Inn advertisement in the Packet print edition last Friday, and also found it on their website, so am showing the text below. So cute, and of course the “clincher” is the last bit about “the Vegans,” because those of us who plan events increasingly have to take special diets … Continue reading
The One53 BLT
Did you see my recent post about sandwiches I’ve been enjoying at home, which included a BLT? Well, leave it to Restaurant One53 in Rocky Hill to raise the bar – really, really high. Their One53 BLT includes apple wood smoked bacon, cornmeal crusted fried green tomatoes, baby arugula, and green goddess dressing, all on hand-cut … Continue reading
Onion Soup
My little secret – I’ll never live this down! This onion soup is, believe it or not Campbell’s. No, not the heavily salted condensed kind, although I hear they’ve cut back on the salt in those. But this is part of the Campbell’s Select Harvest line, in a larger can. I “enhance” it with brandy and … Continue reading
Sandwiches
Just as I eat breakfast for dinner since I rarely cook breakfast in the morning, I tend to do the same with lunch, a meal I rarely eat at home. I’ve had some nice end-of-summer tomatoes, plus good bacon, so used them in two kinds of sandwiches for recent dinners – grilled cheese (I had sliced “fontina” on … Continue reading
Autumn Festivals & Events
These pretty moon cakes made for the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (aka Moon Festival) are from Sheng Kee bakery in Taiwan. They can be ordered from Bostonbookshop.com, but since the festival starts on September 22, you might want to go to the Asian Food Market in Plainsboro, or the Great Wall in Franklin Park, and shop in … Continue reading
Ribs
These are On the Bone spareribs with chipotle glaze, and they are excellent. (But guys, shutty the music on the website, you just can’t find the mute button fast enough!) I kept thinking of these ribs after I tried them during a review dinner last fall, and finally returned specifically for them, and their onion rings … Continue reading
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