My go-to comfort dish when I want to make something tasty, super easy, yet sophisticated enough for guests, is risotto – hands down. I know that it can be intimidating to some but for some reason, I find it very straight forward and (touch wood!) I haven’t messed one up yet. The key I find…
Category: Seafood
Grilled Peaches, Sous-Vide Mediterranean Squid, Chicken Thighs with Roasted Cauliflower Risotto and Grilled Radicchio Salad
I hosted a slightly smaller Sunday lunch than usual recently for my friends Brian, Ernesto and Larry. I usually go up to 6 people as it’s the perfect number for the size of my apartment (and the amount of matching dinnerware I own!) but I really wanted to make this roasted cauliflower risotto I had read…
Oysters Two Ways, Spicy Tuna on Sticky Rice, Pork Tenderloin with Fingerling Potatoes & Chanterelles
I wanted to make something a little extra special for my first Sunday lunch of the year and set my heart on wanting to work with oysters for the first time ever. Funnily enough, I didn’t really start eating oysters until I moved to New York. In France, they are a special treat usually reserved…
Thanksgiving 2016
I never knew what Thanksgiving really was until I moved to New York 9 years ago. I had vaguely heard about it of course but I never truly realized what it meant and how important it is to American culture until this country became my home. Over the years I have had many kinds of Thanksgiving…
Convalescent Foodie – Part Two!
I made a special meal for my friend Larry, who really went above and beyond for me through this whole broken foot ordeal. Not only did he insist on coming over from Brooklyn to the Upper West Side to take (carry!) me to the doctor on the Sunday immediately following my accident (I couldn’t walk…
Eric Ripert’s Chicken Bouillabaisse
I pretty much always go home to my family for my birthday on April 25th every year – I can count on less than one hand the number of times when I didn’t spent it with them. The reason isn’t for gifts (I am apparently very hard to buy for anyway) or the celebrations (I’m not…
Gourmet Sundays 