Month

09/29/11  • PESTO PASTA (AND POTATOES) From the Aug./Sept., 2011 Saveur I went out to East Hampton last weekend and since it was rainy and gray as I was packing, and since it was the first day of fall, like any reasonable person I grabbed things like heavy sweatpants and flannel shirts for what I anticipated would be a damp and chilly couple of days. Except I should have known that the weather never follows the calen

09/22/11 • COD WITH TOMATO SAUCE From the Sept., 2011 Food & Wine Last night I ate an amazing meal at a little restaurant in the West Village called Buvette. It’s a narrow spot and generally pretty crowded at dinner, which means I almost never get to go since the scale of the place and the fact that you typically have to wait for a (tiny) table are two realities of eating there that Alfredo can’t abide. Alf is th

09/16/11 • BIG BISCUIT SANDWICH From the July 21, 2011 New York Times (click here to view the recipe) This has been an intense deadline week for me. I normally like to have a new recipe out to all of you by Thursday morning, but here it is Friday at 8:00 am and I am only now getting a chance to sit down at my computer and focus on this week’s posting. Regrettably, that’s happening from the exceedingly cramped quarter

09/08/11 • LAST-CALL SUMMER PUDDING From the Sept., 2011 Bon Appetit (click here to view the recipe) The weather in New York City has turned suddenly cooler and gray. Between this and the fact that Labor Day has now come and gone, there’s a pervading sense that summer has packed up her flip-flops and headed for the other side of the Equator. This is not a happy feeling. Despite the fact that I’m frequently accused by

09/01/11 • PERFECT PAELLA, SIMPLIFIED From America’s Test Kitchen (click here for the recipe) I’m not one of those people whose appetite goes into hiding when the temperature spikes and the air gets soupy. In fact, when faced with a 90-degree day and near 100 percent humidity, I’ve been known to run to the nearest Cuban restaurant in search of a plate of picadillo and some fried plantains. It was just that impulse th