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Recipes that include basil

Making Olive Chicken Thighs with Chef Tim Love

Thursday, February 21, 2013

I could get used to this…

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Lucky Basil

Friday, March 5, 2010

St. Patrick’s Day is coming up and I’m not Irish, but I love Irish Soda Bread. I can’t claim to do much pub crawling, but I did just post about potatoes. I never got into Lucky Charms, but through some twisted and fortunate miscalculation of the leprechauns, I got the luck of the Irish. Yup, I’m the luckiest gal around. I’ve got the most supportive husband, the smartest dog (she does at least 30 tricks), the most non-overbearing mom, and another reservation for Brooklyn Fare.

Slow Roasted Tomatoes, Boconcinni, clover basil 6

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Wine-Braised Beef Shanks

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Jessica bought some beautiful, large beef shanks and we needed to sneak in at least one more hearty meal before the weather gets warm. So I found an interesting sounding recipe for Wine-Braised Beef shanks, which was taken from the Sept 19, 1995 issue of Family Circle. Sadly, the recipe was written poorly and didn’t make a lot of sense. My instinct is that it was the web-translation from the paper magazine that caused the problem.

Fully Dressed Plate

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Homemade Italian Chicken Sausage

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Since we had some pork fat left over from trimming pork loin recently, I wanted to make sausage. Jessica defrosted a chicken and it seemed like a fun protein to work with. Having never made chicken sausage, I approached it the same way I would with most any other protein. I did go light on the herbs and spices because chicken is such a light flavor that you don’t want to over-power it.

Chicken Sausage Sandwich

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Deep Dish Pizza

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Jessica has been wanting to make pizza all week. We stopped by Home Depot to buy some quarry tile to use as a pizza stone, but go figure, the Manhattan HDs don’t stock tile. So she decided on deep dish, as we don’t need a stone and because neither of us had really experimented much (at least in recent years) with deep dish.

CU on Baked Crust

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Brunch: Veggie and Goat Cheese Sandwiches, Manchego Mini Quiche, and Danish Apple Pastry

Monday, September 15, 2008

We had our friends, Peter, Jeff, and Erin, over for brunch. Since brunches are around noon, you have to plan to make some things in advance, unless you want to get up way too early. I’m pretty anal about optimal eating, meaning I won’t allow for something that’s ok because of convenience. I’ve got to eat and serve things the best way possible. For that reason, I use roasted and grilled veggies a lot. They taste better (in my opinion) the next day. So, the night before, I fire roasted peppers, and grilled eggplant and zucchini.

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Dinner: Mustard Thick-Cut Chops, Sauteed Mushrooms and Green Beans, Colorful Bruschetta, and Roasted Fingerlings with Manchego Walnut Pesto

Saturday, August 23, 2008

This dinner was all about simplicity. Every preparation was easy and the highlight is the ingredients. When you’re using really good meat, ultra fresh vegetables, and super vinegars, oils, etc. you don’t need to get fancy. Let the ingredients do all the work.

Ready for the easiest recipe ever?

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Asian Pear Beet Salad (with or without Feta)

Saturday, July 12, 2008

My friend Sheryl loves beets so I prepared some last time she came over. In a daring mood, I tried a pairing I had never seen or heard of before, beets with Asian pear. Hooray, it was a fabulous discovery and will forever be in my repertoire. I worked on a recipe and came up with a unique, refreshing, and eye-catching salad.

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Basil-Lime Sorbet Turned Cocktail

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Again, driven by the excess of an ingredient, I made Basil Lime Sorbet. Whenever I buy basil, I get way more than I need, but I hate wasting the beautiful and aromatic herbs. I found this recipe and it seemed like fate. I had an abundance of limes too.

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