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Celery-Celery Soup

January 24, 2018 / / Comments Off on Celery-Celery Soup

In grammar school mathematics you learn early on that a negative plus a negative is more negative, but a negative times a negative equals a positive…it’s all very confusing when you’re nine, especially because in real life when do you ever see a negative and a negative becoming anything besides EXTRA NEGATIVE? I’m not sure that this analogy exactly translates to this recipe (am I really multiplying ingredients?) but all I know is that celery has a terrible texture, celery root has a look (and frankly taste) only its mother could love, but when you combine them together in this soup, magic happens, the angels sing and it’s the best soup you’ve eaten in a long time.

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Celery Salad with Feta and Soft-Boiled Egg

August 2, 2016 / / Comments Off on Celery Salad with Feta and Soft-Boiled Egg

Oozie eggs on a bright salad

I know what you’re thinking so I’ll preempt you – this is a real underdog of a recipe. I felt the same way when I read the ingredient list; it doesn’t make any sense. Capers, whole slices of lemons, feta cheese? An egg?? And an entire stalk of celery??? I’ll be honest, I usually trust everything Ottolenghi says in his ingenious cookbooks (Jerusalem, Plenty and Plenty More, if you’ve somehow missed out), but this seemed farfetched to me. Frankly, the only reason I decided to give this recipe a shot was because I had that irritating bag of aging celery in my fridge, of which I’d used only one rib.

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Green Gazpacho

July 23, 2015 / / Comments Off on Green Gazpacho

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I just got back from a glorious two-week vacation, with a few days in Venice followed by a road trip through just about every region of Slovenia. I am tan, relaxed and a few pounds heavier thanks to no fewer than 5 tasting menus and what was generally just delicious, homemade, local food and wine.  I’m going to give you the run-down on what we ate and what we saw but I need to get my thoughts and my photos together first. In the meantime, I’m back in New York, and instead of cooling off in the Adriatic I’m cooling off in the air conditioning of my office, trying to avoid going outside lest I melt. If there is any time to avoid being in the hot kitchen, it’s the present, and so I wanted to share with you this fantastic green gazpacho which is chilly and refreshing and will cool you right down.

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Italian Vegetable Stew

January 7, 2014 / / 1 Comment

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I saw this vegetable stew in the pages of a Bon Appetit and thought, “Well, that looks very healthy and appropriate for a January dinner.” And for exactly that reason, I was not going to make it. See, I know January is about resolutions and healthful eating, and reversing the damage of a sustained diet consisting only of holiday cookies, etc. But while I put great importance on exercise and eating in moderation, I’d never cook something just because it’s healthy. It has to look DELICIOUS, and if it happens to be healthy, well then that is an added bonus.  There are too many dishes out there that I need to get to!

While I am divulging my bad habits, I have another confession. I don’t really like kale. This is like foodie blasphemy, as it seems as though 2013 was The Year of Kale. Kale, to me, tastes bitter and it’s tough and its curly edges are sharp. This stew has kale. It also has collard greens. I like collard greens…cooked in bacon for so long that they can no longer be scientifically considered vegetables. So you see, I wasn’t really expecting much when I set out to make this dish.

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