A Trip to Curaçao

Posted by Marguerite in Blog, Travels on May 9, 2011

Reader, as you may have noticed, I have been MIA for a little over a month. It isn’t that I don’t love you-I do! I just have been trying to strike the perfect work life balance. As you can see, I have been unsuccessful to date. But, I will try my darnedest to be [...]

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Lamb and Barley Stew

Posted by Marguerite in Healthy, Recipes on January 16, 2011

STORY

After the last big snow storm, I wanted nothing more than to have a hearty, healthy bowl of stew, and once I tried this recipe, I got a special surprise: a stew with so much flavor, it will become a new winter staple. I suspect it will become one for you, too.

This recipe [...]

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Fish in Salt Crust? Good.

Posted by Marguerite in Blog on November 16, 2010

A little over a week ago, Sean and I went to dinner at Nomad, and it was an unexpected surprise-the good kind. We had the most delicious bread. I thought it was life changing, because I’m not the sort of girl who really, really likes bread. Usually, I could take it or leave it, [...]

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Cooked Last Night – Stone Crab and Basil Marinara

Posted by Marguerite in Blog on October 6, 2010

Look! Look! Stone crabs!

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The Flower District

Posted by Marguerite in Blog on September 19, 2010

On Saturday morning at the crack of dawn I woke Sean up and we headed to the flower district: I, for a good deal on beautiful flowers for my friend Ardie’s baby shower, and Sean for the photo-op I promised would be spectacular. And it was! Walls and walls of flowers!

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A Trip to Cape May

Posted by Marguerite in Blog on June 30, 2010

Last weekend Sean and I visited our friends Carri and Ted at their fabulous little beach house on Cape May! I brought them a blackberry and blueberry crumb cake. (Will be posting that recipe soon. Perfect for brunch!) The beach house is named Pinky, and it has views of the most perfect sunset.

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The Turkey or the Egg

Posted by Marguerite in Blog on May 11, 2010

For our last breakfast this weekend Sean and I tried turkey eggs. Sean researched them, and then scrambled them. And they were so buttery and delicious, I wish we took photos. But we didn’t. Instead we both marveled over the fact that everything we read about the taste of turkey eggs was basically wrong. They [...]

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Dinner with Sean – Part 2

Posted by Marguerite in Blog on May 9, 2010

Tonight we braised a bison cheek. My god folks, this one was a 10 out of 10. 3 hours of slow roasting at 275° F (135° C) produced one of the best meals we’ve ever had. Good. Rich, savory goodness.

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Brunch with Sean

Posted by Marguerite in Blog on May 9, 2010

Oh Union Square, you haven’t failed us yet! For brunch today we had hickory smoked lamb bacon. Lamb bacon! Let me say it again: Lamb Bacon! Genius.

We served it with soft boiled double-yoke pheasant eggs, jicama and carrot slaw (recipe to come), and toasted sourdough bread with kalamata olives.

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Dinner with Sean

Posted by Marguerite in Blog on May 5, 2010

 

This afternoon Sean and I went to the Union Square Farmer’s Market, and we decided to experiments. So we bought bison cheeks, a pheasant along with the eggs, and turkey eggs. I cooked the pheasant tonight in the rotisserie, stuffed it with thymes, prunes, celery and shallots, and I prepared a sauce of Marsala [...]

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