Category Archives: Entertaining

Meyer Lemon Mini Cheesecakes for Brooklyn Birthday High Tea

Please excuse us. We’ve been hibernating. But with a spring in our step, an extra hour of daylight, and the last gasp of winter citrus, we thought it was time to update you with a recipe and an idea for … Continue reading

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Art + Food + Brew Your Own Beer Workshop + Conversation = Eat Art!

Here at 2 Cooks we have lots of interests, but many of them fall under the major categories of: art, eating and drinking, and connecting with people through meaningful conversation. Driven by these interests Tracy Candido and I have put … Continue reading

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Brooklyn Breakfast Tacos

Earlier this fall I got to visit Austin, enchanted land of swimming holes, relaxed cafes, and the most delicious Tex-Mex invention of all: the breakfast taco. I could eat Mexican (and Texican) food all day, everyday, for every meal and … Continue reading

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Superbowl Buffalo Blowout

Football is a game of strategy.  One can liken the plays of an NFL team to the moving of chess pieces around a board with the ultimate goal of getting your players from one end to the other.  The maneuvering … Continue reading

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Chalet Weekend Getaway Recipes, or Cooking for a Group of 14

Sometimes you just need to get away from New York City. Lately we’ve been subsumed with the busyness of life and it already seems like so long ago that we stuffed a rental car to the gills with friends and … Continue reading

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Baking A La Francaise

When I first met SMH (the other cook on this blog) he told me in no uncertain terms that he didn’t like baking. “Why?,” I asked, incredulous, unable to see how someone who was such an accomplished cook would turn … Continue reading

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Wishing You Great Celebrations

May all of your festivities be delicious! Thanks for reading. We look forward to cooking and eating with you in 2011! Warmest wishes, 2 Cooks in the Kitchen

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Literary holiday season hors d’oeuvres

We had a wonderful time at the Desk Set’s Biblioball last Saturday serving up some very special hors d’oeuvres of salt and pepper shrimp with olive tapanade, mushroom duxelle, pesto and roasted red peppers on crostini and baked tofu with … Continue reading

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Join Us at the Desk Set Biblioball Happy Hour!

For the second year in a row 2 Cooks in the Kitchen is excited to be participating in the Desk Set’s annual Biblioball fundraiser to benefit Literacy for Incarcerated Teens. It’s being held this Saturday, December 4th starting at 7:30 … Continue reading

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Celebrating Our Summer CSA

It’s been a busy CSA summer, and hence, no new entry for almost two months. Rest assured we’ve been cooking up a storm to deal with our weekly supply of farm fresh vegetables, fruit and eggs. Now with the focus … Continue reading

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