Turkuaz Restaurant, Hell’s Kitchen, NYC + Tina, The Musical
(Written before COVID-19 quarantine) With a 7 pm curtain for Tina, my friend and I grabbed an early bite at Hell's Kitchen's Turkuaz, which has recently [...]
Stocking Your “Pantry” During COVID-19 + Lentil Soup with Sausages
Wanting to feel both useful and helpful during this world-wide pandemic, I'm donning my RD (registered dietitian), cookbook author and former food editor hats to [...]
Dim Sum in Hong Kong, Classic vs New-Age, A World of Difference
Dim Sum in Hong Kong comes in many forms, from the traditional with waitresses pushing carts that you simply point to what you want to [...]
Crispy Smashed Fingerling Potatoes
Here's a simple recipe for those you love crispy potatoes. Using any small potatoes; I tested it with fingerlings. Crispy Smashed Fingerling Potatoes Makes 4 [...]
Super-Premium Gin Tasting Including the Indian Crafted Jaisalmer
This has been the year of super-premium gin, at least with the samples I've received to review. The gins include McQueen and the Violet Fog, [...]
Surfside lunch at Splashes at Surf & Sand Hotel, Laguna Beach, CA
Some dear friends from LA offered to drive down to Laguna Beach to meet me for lunch while I was out in California visiting my [...]
Lunch at TBar Steak & Lounge, Upper East Side, NYC
I met a relative at TBar Steak & Lounge for lunch, as it's his favorite place to dine in his hood. I chose my meal [...]
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Crispy Smashed Fingerling Potatoes
Here's a simple recipe for those you love crispy potatoes. Using any small potatoes; I tested it with fingerlings. Crispy Smashed Fingerling Potatoes Makes 4 to 6 servings 1 1/2 pounds fingerling potatoes Kosher salt [...]
The Best Blueberry Cake + Folding
I adapted this recipe, published in "The Weekend Kitchen" by me (Bonnie Tandy Leblang) and Joanne Lamb Hayes, Harmony, 1992. It called for wild blueberries, which aren't in season now (other than in Florida), so [...]
Turkuaz Restaurant, Hell’s Kitchen, NYC + Tina, The Musical
(Written before COVID-19 quarantine) With a 7 pm curtain for Tina, my friend and I grabbed an early bite at Hell's Kitchen's Turkuaz, which has recently relocated to northern Hell's Kitchen convenient for theatre. I had [...]
Stocking Your “Pantry” During COVID-19 + Lentil Soup with Sausages
Wanting to feel both useful and helpful during this world-wide pandemic, I'm donning my RD (registered dietitian), cookbook author and former food editor hats to share shopping and cooking tips with you as we're all [...]
Lower East Side Quintessential Trip with Lunch at Katz’s Delicatessen
((Written and posted before COVID-19 quarantine) It had been some time since I wandered around enjoying the tastes of the Lower East Side. I went recently with some other Dames, checking out a potential guide [...]
Fast Casual Vietnamese at Sai Gon Dep, Murray Hill, NYC
(Written and posted before COVID-19 quarantine) I had lunch at Sai Gon Dep, teeny the fast-casual Vietnamese place on Second Avenue that specialized in Pho. I went with a book club friend who lives in the [...]
A Time Warp: Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop, Gramercy-Flatiron, NYC
Eisenberg Sandwich shop, open since 1929, was one of those places I'd heard about yet had never been. One morning after being NPO (medical lingo not eating anything) for my doctor's visit, I made a [...]
Aux Epices Restaurant, Tribeca, NYC + The Sickness
After being invited as media to The Sickness, I made a reservation at Aux Epices Restaurant as it was only a couple of blocks from where we were seeing the show. It's a narrow inviting [...]