Category Archives: The Monday Treat
The Monday Treat – Ginger Salmon with Bok Choi
I can put my finger on the exact moment where Thanksgiving related food stopped being appealing: Friends Ken and Carrie invited us over for dinner and a game of cards, and I gave in to uncouth temptation and drank a … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Friday sales, bok choi, coriander, fish sauce, ginger, mint, salmon, soy, Thanksgiving
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Savoy Cabbage with Pancetta and Fontina
As Thanksgiving accelerates towards us my friends react in different ways to the concept of spending highly charged time with family and in-laws.
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Tagged fontina, kale, pancetta, risotto, savoy cabbage, sides, sprouts, Thanksgiving
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The Monday Treat – Spiced Pumpkin Apple Cake with Maple Frosting
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Great excitement; the paper turkeys can once more grace the window sill. That’s not a metaphor for something. I mean actual paper turkeys. And also paper pumpkins and garland. Gotta love a theme.
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Tagged apple pumpkin cake, cake, pumpkin, pumpkin spice, Thanksgiving
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The Monday Treat – Baked Toffee Apples with Custard
Apple picking season may be over, and last weekend’s freak Halloween snow pretty much ensured that it was, but apple-eating season is in full flow here in New York.
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Tagged Apples, Autumn, comfort food, custard, farmers market, toffee, vegetarian
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Roasted Butternut Squash Hummus and the stresses of pumpkin carving
The key to successful pumpkin carving, it turns out, is having access to some kind of saw.
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Tagged butternut squash, halloween, Plenty, pumpkin, pumpkin carving, vegetarian
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The Monday Treat – Purple / Orange Velvet Cupcakes with Worms In Dirt
It’s almost Halloween. It will be celebrated at work with compulsory fun – a dressing up competition with prizes. There will also be alcohol, which I’m guessing will help.
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Tagged cup cake, halloween, oreos, red velvet cake, worms in dirt
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The Monday Treat – Birthday baked cheesecake
It was my birthday, and I celebrated as I habitually do by going to Chinatown and eating a lot of duck with pancakes. Then back home for champagne and cheesecake and presents. I had a very happy day!
The Monday Treat – Focaccia with grapes
If you lived in Tuscany last weekend, the chances are you would have been out celebrating the chianti harvest. Apparently there’s a big knees up, with a lot of drinking and eating olives and trampling on grapes in vats. “Seriously,†… Continue reading
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Tagged chainti, fish pedicure, focaccia, grapes, harvest, olive oil
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The Monday Treat – Autumn Afternoon Tea Time: Plum Cake
Back in London on the annual pilgrimage to the US Embassy to have my visa re-issued. Back to sleeping in my childhood bedroom, where creeper is already turning red around the windows, and I can watch the birds gathering in the … Continue reading