Centerpieces and Flower Arrangements, Dessert, Famous Chefs, Party foods
Croquembouche: The dessert that “combines elegant traditionalism with an imaginative modern approach to the elaborate form of styling.”* It’s not quite fair to say that Croquembouche is simple, but the effort-to-reward ratio is off the charts, thus making the endeavor well worth the undertaking. Croquembouche’s translation, basically “crunch in the mouth,” is spot on. The tower [...]
The inaugural Wild Wild Rice – a stir-fried wild rice recipe made all the more savage with a lawless quantity of additions– made its debut at a swank dinner party two dining rooms ago. (The storied red dining room on West 11th St.) And how was it? Look no further than the ecstatic reaction of [...]
ALL RECIPES, Party foods, Side Dish
Wild Wild Rice Recipe Note: This recipe takes well to customization with additional bits of vegetables and herbs and sauces 4 c. chicken broth 1/2 c. sherry 6 T. soy sauce, divided 1 t. Rooster brand chili sauce (sriracha) 1/2 t. salt zest of 1/2 an orange 6 T. butter, divided 1/2 c. minced onion [...]
ALL RECIPES, Celebrity Recipes, Party foods, Vegetables
As made by the incomparable Gabrielle Hamilton, James Beard Award-winning author or Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef and chef/owner of NYC’s celebrated Prune restaurant. I was told the secret is to mix a tiny bit of cream into the melted butter, then dip in very cold radishes. Trim the bottoms in [...]
East Hampton, Main Dishes, Party foods
This recipe for Cuban Picadillo comes via my old pal Tony “The Tiger” Urrutia. El Tigre is a dapper Cuban with sparkling eyes and a charmed personality where meeting him and becoming friends are one in the same. The Cuba of his childhood is one of grand Belle-Epoque mansions lining tree-shaded boulevards beneath blazing skies. [...]
ALL RECIPES, Main Dishes, Party foods, Sullivan Family Recipes
Long has the Crown Roast of Hot Dogs haunted my culinary imagination. It first caught my eye ages ago in my hometown paper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; the recipe and photograph clipped but never actually prepared. Years later this refrigerator magnet found its way into the kitchen with the vintage photograph depicting a most [...]
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