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- July 14, 2020
- Vegetarian Fast and Fancy
by Renny Darling
Celebrating the rich diversity of vegetables and aromatic herbs, this cookbook provides recipes that are quick and easy. The basic premise is to create delicious, healthy meals with minimum effort and in the least amount of time. This easy soup is refreshing and full of summery flavor. Royal House Publishing (available at www.amazon.com) -
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- July 14, 2020
Our favorite restaurant in the Netherlands is Restaurant De Moerbei in Warmond (near Lisse) where our Dutch colleagues have treated us to the most amazing evenings of chef wizardry, magical tastes and happy conversation. We always take an appreciative yet fleeting look at the menu, glance around at one another, and make a unanimous decision to go with the chef’s tasting menu. Each surprise course transforms me into a child opening the most wanted present on the best birthday ever.
This May, we were lucky enough to be there again. It is such a warm, inviting space with charming staff who didn’t mind that I took photos of each magnificent offering. My first weekend back home, I did my best to replicate their Cucumber Ginger Gazpacho festooned by miniature orbs of cucumber-ribboned goat cheese around a little island of tuna tartare topped with fried shrimp. I hope that you find my version of their inspiring verdant gazpacho as smooth and spice-silky as I found theirs. (While I tackled the
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- July 14, 2020
- My father’s love of sweet American corn was legendary. He could eat six ears of corn at a sitting. This was quite something since he scoffed at corn-eating Americans when he first arrived here from Holland after the war. In those days, the only corn in Holland was feed corn for pigs and cattle. Years ago, my father fell in love with a fabulous corn pudding made by my mother who was given the now-lost recipe by a UConn friend. I created ‘Dad’s Favorite Corn Pudding’ recipe~it comes pretty close to what he craved.
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A rich, wonderful meal all with a bit of bread, there is nothing quite like classic Dutch Mustard Soup. Unable to find a traditional recipe, we made up our own and hope that you enjoy its tangy bite and creamy texture. (We bring home real Groningen Mustard from Abraham's Mustard Mill but you can also purchase good Dutch mustard, De Echte Zaanse Mosterd, from The Dutch Epicure at www.dutchepicure.com.) Of course, it is wonderful if you like to make your own mustard from mustard seed. Eet smakelijk!
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- July 14, 2020
- The Essential Reference: Vegetables From Amaranth to Zucchini
Published by HarperCollins Publishers
Narrow, lightweight lavender Oriental-type eggplant is the most dependably sweet and tender type for this and other recipes, Eastern or Western. -
- July 14, 2020
- Castle Hill Inn & Resort
Ocean Drive
Newport, Rhode Island
Phone: (401) 849-3800
www.castlehillinn.com
Located on a 40-acre peninsula, this 1875 gabled Victorian mansion is perched on a sunny bluff over Narragansett Bay. The Inn’s chefs artfully craft seasonal dinner and tasting menus from the finest regional produce, fish and meats. Each inspired course is a unique, sensory feast. We also adored the wild Alaskan king salmon filet, grilled with pan roasted green cabbage, sweet sausage and fingerling potatoes with a Pinot Noir beurre rouge. -
- July 14, 2020
- It's so nice to have a couple of salad dressing recipes that you can whip together on Sunday, to use through the busy work week. This is one of ours.
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- July 14, 2020
- At a New Haven Arts & Ideas Festival concert on the green, my friend Ellen made an amazing potato salad with fresh Dill, sliced Radishes, chopped green Onions and Hellmann’s mayonnaise (our favorite when homemade is simply not possible). The addition of Radishes was stunningly flavorful, causing us to look at potato salad in a completely different light.
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- July 14, 2020
- Faith Ohms helped her husband, Jan, start the Van Engelen flower bulb company some 35 years ago as she raised four daughters and taught painting classes. An acrylic artist specializing in large, trompe l’oeil paintings of vegetables, flowers and more recently, animals, Faith whips together meals without recipes, letting her creative spirit move her in (and out of) the kitchen.
