Whenever I go to Pearl Oyster Bar in the late spring/early summertime, my meal consists of fried oysters, a lobster roll with shoestring fries and malt vinegar, and strawberry rhubarb pie with vanilla ice cream. Since I recreated the lobster roll for my dinner party, I figured I could also recreate the strawberry rhubarb crumble […]
Yesterday, I showed you how to make court bouillon, which is the stock I used for cooking my lobsters. A while back, a reader wrote in and asked if I had ever made lobster rolls since I eat so many of them. Sadly, before last Saturday, I had never even purchased whole lobsters before! Lobsters […]
Over the weekend, David and I had a party with some friends and made lobster rolls, fries, mung bean noodles, and strawberry rhubarb crumble. Today I’m going to show you how to make court bouillon, which is the liquid I used for cooking the lobsters we purchased in Chinatown. Initially, I planned on steaming the […]
Last week, I went to lunch with some friends at David Chang’s newest restaurant, Má Pêche. The restaurant has been talked about for quite some time; it’s in the Chambers Hotel and has a take out option that had a soft opening a while back serving bahn mi sandwiches, cookies, and soft serve ice cream. […]
On Easter Sunday, Laura, Eric, and I went to Casa Mono for a late brunch/early dinner. I’ve been there once before for dinner with Blake and thought it was a great restaurant, especially for Mario Batali (the only other Batali restaurant I like is The Spotted Pig – his Italian restaurants…are not great to me). […]