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Category Archives: Recipes
In Good Taste: Should we wear a scarlet ‘NY’ on our forehead?
TWISTED EGGS BENEDICT with smoked salmon.
By DAWN LaROCHELLE
When you’re a newly-minted college freshman, you get asked the same three questions over and over again: (1) “what’s your name?” (2) “what’s your major?” and (3) “where are you from?” When I was a newly-minted college freshman, by way of contrast, I got asked: (1) “what’s your [...]
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Tagged candlelight dinner, cheese, college freshman, cream cheese, Salmon
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IN GOOD TASTE: Sticking your neck out
TOFFEE TURTLE BARS
By DAWN LaROCHELLE
When you have three baseball-obsessed sons, you learn a lot about pre-game superstitions and rituals. Don’t step on the foul line coming on and off the field. Tap the bat on the plate before hitting. Step out of the batter’s box before a pitch, secure the bat between your legs, readjust [...]
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Tagged cup, mosaic tiles, small business owner, spray, wade boggs
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IN GOOD TASTE: Got any real bread for this peanut butter?
By DAWN LaROCHELLE
There is nothing quite so humbling as having your six-year-old son march into your Zagat-rated restaurant, through a crowded dining room, with a jar of peanut butter and loudly demand to know if there is any “real” bread in the house (apparently, the warm, fragrant nine-grain and three-cheese loaves we offer our customers [...]
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Tagged dan dan mian, mian, mini marshmallows, peanut, peanut butter sandwiches
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IN GOOD TASTE: Where can I get a good egg cream?
IN BROOKLYN IN THE ’50s “a candy store minus an egg cream…was as difficult to conceive as the Earth without gravity.” (Photo by Greg Nesbit)
By DAWN LaROCHELLE
Rabbi Mat, my spiritual mentor and my sons’ sondek, has told me in no uncertain terms that I have failed as a parent—not because of lax kashrus, nor because [...]
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Tagged CHOCOLATE, chocolate ganache, miniature broom, Red, shomer shabbos
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IN GOOD TASTE: A simple, elegant and delicious Mother’s Day entrée
MISO-MARINATED GRILLED SALMON WITH WASABI BUTTER
(Photo by Gregory Nesbit)
“What would one know of life as it should be lived or nights as they should be spent apart from meals?”
–James and Kay Salter, Life is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days
By DAWN LaROCHELLE
You could describe me as passionate about food. Okay, maybe even obsessive—just [...]
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Tagged Andrew, DAWN LaROCHELLE, DAWN ROCHELLE
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IN GOOD TASTE: Thinking outside the (lunch) box
Photo courtesy of Greg Nesbit
HUMMUS SUNFLOWER. This is one of the author’s favorite standards at catered events, at her restaurant and as an alternative to pizza, hot dogs and chips at kids’ parties.
By DAWN LaROCHELLE
Parenting is a humbling experience. Back in the day when people still referred to me by my given name instead of [...]
