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Category Archives: Winter Recipes
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
Posted in Cooking, Entertaining, Winter Recipes
Tagged breakfast, brunch, Cooking, Friends, Gluten Free, Granola, Groups, Meats, Pancakes, Stew, Vegan, Vegetables, Wine, Woodstock
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Tropical Tostones for a Mid-Winter Saturday Snack
When I was recording with my band the other weekend we took a break from perfecting our instrumental tracks to get lunch at the Dominican restaurant next to the studio. Without hesitation I ordered a side of tostones, twice friend … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Recipe, Winter Recipes
Tagged Friend, Plantains, Snack, South American, Tostones, Vegan
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Simple Winter Breakfast Pleasures: Oeufs a la Cocotte
This morning, getting ready for a lazy Saturday, I wished very much that I was back in Paris where I could walk downstairs and around the block and pick up some fresh, hot croissants at the corner boulangerie. Alas, Sunset … Continue reading
Taking Stock of My Crock Pot Part 1: Vegetable Stock
I made a few new years resolutions this year. The first few were the ones that most everyone makes at one point in their lives: exercise more, lose weight, snack less, make time for my creative projects, etc., etc. Most … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Recipe, Winter Recipes
Tagged Crock Pot, Slow Cooker, Stock, Vegetable, Vegetarian
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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
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Entertaining, Recipe, Winter Recipes
Tagged Baking, Buche de Noel, Cake, Chocolate, Dessert, Food, French, Frosting, Maple, New Year, Pain D'Epices, Spice, Yule Log
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Eastern European Inspired Solstice Feast (with vegan/vegetarian options)
Since New York is currently covered in snow and I am stuck in my northeastern hideaway until tomorrow when the roads are cleared it seems like a perfect time to tell you about our solstice dinner (one day late) last … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Recipe, Winter Recipes
Tagged cabbage, Cooking, Eastern European, Fennel, Food, potatoes, Salad, Sausage, soup
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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
Posted in Entertaining, Recipe, Winter Recipes
Tagged appetizers, Biblioball, Desk Set, hors d'oeuvres, La Cocoette, pesto, Shrimp, tapande, Tofu, Vegan
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Crepe Party Wrap Up
You may not know it yet, but there is a resident Francophile at 2 Cooks. When Phoebe suggested that our nascent French speaking group celebrate the French holiday Chandeluer, a holiday that involves crepes, I was intrigued. I did a … Continue reading
Posted in Dessert, Entertaining, Recipe, Winter Recipes
Tagged Chandeleur, Crepe, French, Holiday, Party, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian
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Winter Meals: An Alexandrian Breakfast Remembered
It was an early winter morning in Alexandria, Egypt. A town on the Mediterranean coast of that country that used to be one of the greatest storehouses of knowledge during the Hellenistic era, and founded by Alexander The Great himself. … Continue reading
Posted in Berlik Market, Cooking, Egypt, Fava Beans, Foul Mudammas, Recipe, Sahadi's, Where-to-find, Winter Recipes
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