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Posts tagged “Restaurant Reproductions”

Gift Recipe: Chez Panisse Herbed Almonds

My husband and I had the pleasure of visiting Chez Panisse this week -- a first for both of us. I had eaten upstairs in the café, but never downstairs in the evening dining room. It was a lovel...

Recipe: Beet Salad with Horseradish Cream and Frizzled Sweet Onions

Do we really need another beet salad? We really don't need much, but would you love another beet salad? My guess is yes. There's certainly room on our server, so why not? Last week, Maxwell and I a...

New Favorite Combination: Spaghetti and Figs

A few weeks ago, we had a dish at the restaurant Sfoglia in New York that was one of the best things we've eaten in a while. It was so Fall, so simple, and (hooray) so readily found on the Internet. G...

Good Question: Good Wine For Sangria?

I recently dined at Mochica and was impressed with their fantastic sangria. Unfortunately, I tried replicating the recipe and couldn't come up with a good alternative. Although I have looked online f...

Recipe Review: Vietnamese Rice Noodle Pho

We've had this recipe from The Splendid Table's How To Eat Supper earmarked for a while. Given the dreary weather we've been getting all along the East Coast, we thought a bowl of noodles and tender b...

What Restaurant Meals Have You Re-Created at Home?

Just because we champion home cooking doesn't mean we don't love to eat out, too. Usually it's the luxury of enjoying our food and friends while someone else worries about searing the meat and cleanin...

Recipe: The Merritt Parkway Breakfast Sandwich

It is universally true for all cuisines and palates that the combination of carbohydrates and fat produces the most delicious food. The breakfast sandwich, once placed on menus for those who'd self-...

NYC Tip: New Market Opening in the West Village

Not part of the crowds now skipping out of work and making a run for NYC's bridges, tunnels, and jitneys? Those of us staying in the city for the long weekend will be able to check out Market Table'...

Brown Bag Thursday: Fries with that Apple Salad?

The goal is to bring lunch from home once a week, but there's just so many super-sized distractions. I'll admit it. Yesterday I had lunch at McDonald's. Oddly enough, I found an idea for a seasonal, ...

Soup Dumpling Mystery, Almost Solved!

Yesterday we posted a question about soup dumplings that got a few people scratching their chins... and thanks to WBGuy, we were shown the way toward an actual recipe. The original question referred ...

Recipe: Yogurt Panna Cotta

My newest recipe over at Dannon is for Yogurt Panna Cotta with Wine-Simmered Cherries, which was an attempt at a restaurant reproduction of a dessert of a similar name served at August in the West Vil...

Restaurant Reproductions: Gotham Bar & Grill's Pasta Special

[As you know, this is a site about cooking, not restaurants. However, it is not to say that we never eat out. We do, on occasion, and always find it an opportunity to cull new inspiration for cookin...

Recipe: Mezzi Rigatoni with Chorizo, Cockles, and Black Forest Ham

This Restaurant Reproduction comes from Gotham Bar & Grill. Gotham uses Manila Clams, but we used cockles. Our version is much more, shall we say, rustico than Gotham's. But then again, our entire ...

Restaurant Reproduction: Little Giant's Beet Box

We live in the West Village and usually venture East in order to avoid the Halloween parade. This year we tucked into Little Giant (85 Orchard @ Grand) on the Lower East Side. The meal was amazing. ...

Restaurant Reproduction: Salade Lyonnais

One of the greatest food pleasures to be had in France is a well-made Salade Lyonnaise. It's simple: frisee, lardons (pieces of bacon), and an egg. Of course, with all things simple, getting it ju...

Recipe: Salade Lyonnais

Poaching an egg isn't the easiest thing in the world. If you've never done it, give yourself room for improvement. It takes practice. Salade Lyonnais serves two 4 cups frisée, torn into large bi...

Recipe: Warm Artichoke Salad with Pancetta and Sheep's Milk Cheese

We were too tired to cook last night. So we went to one of our favorite no-reservations-needed little gems: Grano Trattoria (21 Greenwich Avenue @ 10th Street). There is a salad on the menu that the...