Caramelized Onions Recipe

Today I’m sharing my favorite caramelized onions recipe. When I was avidly traveling prior to the pandemic, Brad and I would often live at Airbnbs for weeks or months on end. The funny thing about traveling with nothing more than a backpack is you learn to identify the things you can and cannot live without. […]

Escarole and Beans Recipe

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Escarole and Beans is an Old World Italian peasant dish beloved even in modern times for its healthiness, heartiness and nostalgia. This dish varies from brothy soup to a consistency meant for ladling over a thick slice of crusty bread. My recipe lies somewhere between a soup and stew. I typically make this dish in […]

Traditional Guacamole Recipe

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The best guacamole is made table-side with fresh simple ingredients. No matter where I indulge in it, guacamole has a funny way of transporting me to a table of my girlfriends slinging back margaritas and watching the waiter mash together avocados, herbs and aromatics and presenting us with a purple- and red-studded green dip. It’s […]

Classic Egg Salad Sandwich Recipe

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Egg salad sandwiches: either you love’um or hate’um. I don’t recall ever meeting an “in-betweener” on this topic. If you fall into the love’um crowd – there’s strong opinions about what makes egg salad great. Eggs roughly chopped or pulverized into an almost-paste. Mayonnaise-y or dry? Fresh herbs like dill or simple and classic with […]

Recipe: Homemade Fried Mozzarella

SWhipping up a batch of Fried Mozzarella is super easy. You can prepare it beforehand and fry it up when you’re ready. I love a cozy homemade Italian meal on a cold winter night. Especially when there’s lots of red wine. But let’s be honest, there’s always lots of red wine flowing at my dinner […]

Brooklyn’s Best Restaurants: Torst + Pierozek

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Today we’re exploring Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood to try out Torst, one of NYC’s best beer bars, and judge the pierogies at Polish restaurant newcomer, Pierozek. What’s beer-ter than dipping into a warm bar on a chilly winter afternoon to sample an impressive beer menu?? Probably sitting down to a beautiful meal with a beer buzz […]