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strong, dark, with half and half. never ever flavored.
Cook the Book: 'The Food52 Cookbook'
Molasses Ginger cookies. I start getting hints at the office starting around, oh, now, to bring them in to share.
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What's Your Drunk Pizza of Choice?
Anna Maria's on Bedford in Williamsburg Brooklyn. After an afternoon party at Brooklyn Brewery, I knew I needed something to eat before the subway ride home, so we bought slices and ate standing on the corner. At the time, I believed it was the best slice I had ever had but never thought it would stand up again. I ate it again about a year later (sober) and I have to say, it was still pretty good but not the best ever.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Counter Culture Coffee Subscription
Dark, strong, with a splash of half & half.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Counter Culture Coffee Subscription
strong, dark, with half and half. never ever flavored.
Cook the Book: 'The Food52 Cookbook'
Molasses Ginger cookies. I start getting hints at the office starting around, oh, now, to bring them in to share.
Cook the Book: 'The Homesick Texan Cookbook'
smitten kitchen, orangette, gluten free girl, homesick texan, joy the baker... there are so many. I'm fairly obsessed!
Cook the Book: 'Plenty'
A vegetarian cuban-- it was so much more than a pile of vegetables, a pickle, swiss, and some mustard. Everything about it was so so perfect. I'm still sad that the restaurant that served it closed.
Served: Why I Work In Restaurants
I grew up in a family restaurant and worked in high end restaurants for seven years through college and grad school. Now I have a desk job (I pursued my other love, books, and wound up in the publishing industry), but I miss it. I miss the quick pace, how your brain is firing in three hundred directions, I miss coming home at night with sore feet and sleeping like a rock. I miss going out to the all night diner with my coworkers, still in dress, and rehashing the night. As our diner waiter told us one night, listening to us laugh at one particularly ridiculous table, waiters can rehash a shift longer than the shift itself. I always liked that.
Yup, I miss it. I could have easily been a career front of house-er.
Cook the Book: Barefoot Contessa, 'How Easy Is That?'
i love to do brunch-- savory bread puddings, mustard roasted potatoes, salad, a coffee cake, coffee and bloody marys.
Cook the Book: 'In the Kitchen with A Good Appetite'
A vegetarian column with an international twist-- curries, asian noodle dishes, etc. But I'm also enamoured of the suggestion for cubible dining-- I am always looking for portable breakfast ideas that don't skew sweet (yogurts/granolas/cereals), so that one is genius.
Cook the Book: 'The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual'
Rigatoni with my grandmothers sunday gravy, and a piece of super garlicky bread. my mouth is watering.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Its a toss up between smitten kitchen and orangette, though PWC is a fave as well.
Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking
the pumpkin bread from the Tartine cookbook... sugared pepitas on top... yum.
Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
homemade macaroni and cheese. Or I'll make a meal out of homemade pita chips and hummus with feta.
Do You Always Eat Breakfast for Breakfast?
I adore breakfast foods, but can't really make breakfast each morning before running out the door to work, and I quickly tired of the portable items like granola bars, oatmeal, yogurt, so I moved on to sandwiches. I eat a lot of sandwiches for breakfast-- this week has been cream cheese and sprouts. I also love grilled cheese or soup for breakfast, when I have the time in the mornings.
Cook the Book: 'How to Cook Everything, Revised Tenth Anniversary Edition'
I love his 101 lists in the New York Times-- summer dinners, picnic foods. they have been the basis for some of my favorite summer grazing dinners (eaten on the bed in front of the window unit in a desperate urban picnic).
Cook the Book: 'Baked, New Frontiers in Baking'
My grandmother's sickly sweet chocolate icing on a vanilla cake-- cans of condensed milk are in the ingredient list. I still love it, but in moderation.
Cook the Book: 'Screen Doors and Sweet Tea'
What we refer to as boozy-ade in my house: lemonade spiked with vodka. Of course, lemonade by itself is also a favorite.
Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book
Butterscotch pudding/custard. Nothing more comforting to me.
Cook the Book: Nigella Express
I learned to make soups from my grandmother, who spend 25 years running a cafe and lunch spot. Try as she may to pare down her recipes, when I make them, I still wind up with enough soup to feed what was the daily lunch crowd. But I love that! I have quarts and quarts in my freezer which is such a blessing when I'm in a rush!
Cook the Book: 'How to Cook Everything Vegetarian' Book Giveaway
I love vegetables in anything, but lately, I have been loving a recipe for pan glazed tofu with red curry paste and coconut milk. I also adore big bowls of curry with noodles, soba noodles with citrus peanut sauce, ratatouille, and I'm on a big roasted butternut squash kick.
Favorite "unlikely" food combos?
mondaybox, you just made revealing my favorite sandwich a little easier-- grilled american cheese/peanut butter/banana/fig jam. It was a sandwich at a grilled cheese restaurant in my neighborhood, and I tried it under the assumption that it might be weird enough to work... and it absolutely worked. The restaurant since closed, but I now always have a jar of fig jam in the fridge.
Do you have weekly food traditions?
Mexican Mondays. We find it hard to cook on Monday (since all of our energy went towards getting out of bed and going to work after the weekend), so we do Mexican Monday. It is usually the odds and ends of vegetables we still have in our fridge, beans, cheese, and whatever else looks good made in to a burrito.
(...and Fridays are take out fish tacos from the amazing taqueria in our neighborhood).
Cook the Book: 'Baking, From My Home to Yours'
From the Once Upon a Tart cookbook-- chocolate chip oatmeal cookies with dried cranberries (wheat germ is added for an extra crunch-- incredible cookie!).
Cook the Book: 'The Perfect Scoop'
Coffee and cookies ice cream, homemade at my neighborhood joint, with huge chunks of oreos in it. Though, possibly tied for favorite is the ice cream sundaes of my childhood, with soft vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, and whipped cream.
Cook the Book: 'The Silver Palate Cookbook, 25th Anniversary Edition'
Betty Crocker walked me through my first quiche, and then a chocolate cake...
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Anna Maria's on Bedford in Williamsburg Brooklyn. After an afternoon party at Brooklyn Brewery, I knew I needed something to eat before the subway ride home, so we bought slices and ate standing on the corner. At the time, I believed it was the best slice I had ever had but never thought it would stand up again. I ate it again about a year later (sober) and I have to say, it was still pretty good but not the best ever.