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Start Your Day the Popeye Way

April 29, 2011 Food

The modern way to chug your spinach (or kale, or broccoli stems) is to run them through a juicer.  Recently I’ve taken to drinking two big glasses of this green concoction every morning. It’s a zippy, tasty way to get the day started. Juicing vegetables breaks down their cell walls, which allows your body to [...]

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Fish Tacos at El Camello (Tulum, Mexico)

April 18, 2011 Food
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{El Camello in Tulum, Mexico} When the chef at your resort leans over a steaming buffet tray of his own (delicious and very healthy) fare to tell you about a restaurant the locals love, you listen.  When he mentions their specialty drink, a michelada de camarone, which is like a Bloody Mary minus the vodka, [...]

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Boston’s Island Creek Oyster Bar

March 29, 2011 Food

  The Mr. and I originally visited Island Creek Oyster Bar for dinner with our friend Shaina, a prolific Yelper, founding member of Boston’s Burly Burger Club, and all-around oyster fanatic.  Full disclosure: I don’t eat the suckers, but if Shaina says the oysters are good, you can bet they are.  Shaina had been raving [...]

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Tribeca Grand Hotel’s New Spring Menu

February 16, 2011 Food
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{Tribeca Grand Hotel} On a recent jaunt to New York, the Mr. and I stayed at the Tribeca Grand for the first time.  The sleek yet subtle enclave rose to favorite status by dint of the relatively spacious room, ever-present but not stifling service, and a timely laptop loaner program (which came in handy when [...]

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Fennel-Orange Salad with Pistachios

January 13, 2011 Food
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It’s not unusual to crave clean, simple foods in January.   Since the holiday Bacchanal, I’ve eaten eggs and toast, Greek salads, cottage cheese, yogurt, almond butter, apples, oranges and grapes.  Almost exclusively. Today I finally felt inspired to make something that felt a little bit more like a meal.  A light meal, but still, a [...]

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How New Yorkers Eat Local All Year

January 12, 2011 Food
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{Photo via The Kitchn, who was onto Winter Sun Farms way back in 2008.} This week a Tasting Table email crossed my desk and instantly made me nostalgic for New York. If you love local food, live in northern clime, and haven’t the time or inclination to can and freeze, you’re probably bummed about the [...]

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How to Roast Chestnuts, Two Ways

December 22, 2010 Food
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No sooner did the vow to post twice a day pass my lips than my mom and I snuck off for an impromptu New york jaunt.  (I’ll get to posting twice a day, I promise, beginning regularly in January and fitfully between now and then.) We’ve seen the Morgan Library stuffed to the gills with [...]

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Coming to Town Monday: Holiday Decor & Amy from ABCD Designs

December 2, 2010 Feathering the Nest
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{Chocolate- Malt Stump de Noel, a twist on the traditional bûche de Noël.} Next Monday’s #designtv Twitter chat topic is holiday decor, and if that doesn’t shake your jinglebells, howsabout these apples: Amy of ABCD Designs, the co-founder of #designtv, is popping by 5thjoy for a interview that very morning! She’ll talk about her roots, [...]

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Make it at Home: The Meatball Shop’s Roasted Fennel with Walnuts & Raisins

November 17, 2010 Food

Restaurants these days are all about comfort food (farm to table of course), and one of the advantages to the home-cooking sea wave, besides the attending casual attire, is stumbling upon dishes you just might be able to tackle in your own kitchen. Such was the case at The Meatball Shop, where I encountered and [...]

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Got Green Tomatoes & Peppers? Make Chicken Chili.

November 15, 2010 Food

Green peppers fall in my Vegetable Achilles’ Heel category.  I don’t know what to do with them in large quantities.  Everyone says stuff them, but the thought of it makes me tired, particularly if I have a lot of them and they’re oddly shaped, which was the case last week.  Stuffing doesn’t temper their bitterness [...]

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