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From: Montclair, NJ USA

Joined: November 22nd, 2009

About me: I can't be the only person who starts thinking about what to cook next while I am doing the dishes for the meal I just finished eating ... right?

Favorite cookbook: I flirt with all of them. But I am a sucker for good writing and great pictures.

Favorite recipe: Pretty much any combo of good bread and great cheese.


Latest review:

June 20th, 2020

Slow-Roasted Tomatoes from One Good Dish

A dish that could not be simpler to make, and absolutely delicious. Topped the cooled tomato with a room temperature slice of mozzarella drizzled with EVOO and some ribbons of basil. A real treat. read more >


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Ad Hoc at Home

By Thomas Keller
Artisan - 2009

30th July 2010

Corn on the Cob with Lime Salt : page 188

Loved the lime salt -- also liked the tip about melting the butter with a bit of the hot water from boiling the corn before rolling the corn in the butter. Easy to make but gives a touch of something special to the corn on the cob experience. Can't wait to try the salt with other things, like grilled fish.

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27th September 2010 (edited: 12th November 2010)

Cream of Cauliflower Soup with Red Beet Chips : page 127

Great soup -- very rich but really draws out the flavor of cauliflower and my husband completely loved the red beet chips even though most of mine never really crisped up after frying (maybe my oil wasn't hot enough?) -- but the few that did were fabulous. I used croutons I'd made earlier for another dish and I found they didn't add much to the dish.

Served with a mesclun salad to which I added leftover slices of raw zucchini and yellow squash, some toasted pine nuts, and Nate Appleman's lemon juice and grapeseed oil dressing. It worked well as a healthy prelude to a rich creamy soup.

Appetizer was a fig jam, goat cheese and prosciutto bruschetta from the September 2010 issue of Cooks Illustrated.

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3rd January 2011 (edited: 5th January 2011)

Honey Vinaigrette : page 143

Very nice dressing and SO easy to make. My go-to vinaigrette for entertaining has always been the one in Ina Garten's Barefoot in Paris. This now has equal pride of place -- it is sweeter with less of a tang than Garten's which makes it a nifty choice for dinner guests whose tastes I may not be as familiar with.

I used my mini-chopper rather than a blender to make this and it worked very well.

Think this would go really well with an orange and fennel salad -- or fennel and anything.

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