It’s almost Friday — so here’s a garden-fresh basil-based cocktail for your Thursday night drinking pleasure.
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The topping is unusual, crunchy, and great on whatever fruit you’ve got.
An abundance of zucchini and guilt about not using it all up rescued! By a great cookbook.
Right now observant Muslims everywhere are fasting from sunrise to sunset. But each night, families and communities gather for evening prayers and sumptuous spreads.
“Lots of sun; hot; humid.” Whether or not you checked the forecast before you stepped outside this morning, we’d bet you worked up a sweat on your commute. Here’s a recipe that will cut the heat and quench your thirst: horchata. It’s crisp, it’s sweet and just one sip takes you back to those childhood summers of years gone by.
Rhubarb! The first glimpse of those fibrous red stalks reminds us that winter is long gone and food is once again growing in these parts. If you’re already a home carbonating fanatic, you’ll love this simple, easy recipe for Rhubarb Soda Syrup.
Long Way on a Little: An Earth Lover’s Companion for Enjoying Meat, Pinching Pennies and Living Deliciously is my new bible on grass-fed meat. Much more than a cookbook, it’s a serious text on buying, cooking and overall understanding pastured meats. Joel Salatin says the book, “should grace every omnivore’s kitchen – open, stained, spattered and loved.” I plan to get mine splattered pronto, starting with this recipe.
Peas are showing up on purportedly locavore menus around town, but honest local pods won’t debut at Greenmarket for another month or so. Until then, we like to pre-game with PEA SHOOTS, which are literally popping up all over and contain the true taste of the finished product, minus the waiting.
This rugged, chunky granola from Joyce Bakeshop in Prospect Heights makes a hearty topping for a bowl of local yogurt. Or enjoy it on its own and wash it down with a cool glass of milk.
Despite misleading “spring menus” all over town, seeds are only just going into the ground, and for real Greenmarketeers, the cupboard’s still pretty bare. But there’s one ingredient that makes April eating great: eggs.
