healthy eating
RECIPE: Wild Mushroom Ragu with Bucatini
WITH MUSHROOMS POPPING UP IN THE WOODS and in markets, this seemed like the perfect Friday night dinner this week. I did...
Basia HellwigOctober 22, 2010
Celebrating World Pasta Day
[caption id="attachment_1166" align="alignnone"]Wild mushroom ragù with bucatini.[/caption] NOT THAT I NEED AN EXCUSE to enjoy pasta, but next Monday, October 25, is...
Basia HellwigOctober 22, 2010
Best Med Diet Dish at…Flex Mussels
WELL, YOU GUESSED IT, mussels—steamed in all sorts of flavored broths, some even quite distinctively Mediterranean, but all qualifying as a great Med...
Basia HellwigOctober 22, 2010
At the Market This Week
JUST LIKE HAVING KIDS makes you feel the years pass in a particularly poignant way, so do weekly visits to the farmers’ market....
Basia HellwigOctober 19, 2010
RECIPE: Eggplant Slices, Pomegranate, Yogurt and Tahini
THESE BAKED EGGPLANT SLICES are excellent on their own, but add the pomegranate vinaigrette and the cool yogurt sauce, with its tastes of garlic...
Basia HellwigOctober 11, 2010
Meatless Monday: Eggplant Emergency
A FRIEND CALLED TO SAY that house guests had come laden with farmstand fare this weekend, and the whole crowd had eaten...
Basia HellwigOctober 11, 2010
Haiku on a Year in the Life of a Restaurant
A GOOD MEAL is poetry. So perhaps it’s not so surprising to find a chef-poet. On the occasion of Union Square Café’s 25th anniversary,...
Basia HellwigOctober 5, 2010
Does Your Market Have Live Opera?
MUCH AS I LOVE NEW YORK CITY’S GREENMARKETS, the farmers’ market closest to my heart will probably always be Montreal’s Jean-Talon Market, perhaps...
Basia HellwigOctober 4, 2010
Oh, for Love of Farro
WENT ON A LONG BIKE RIDE last weekend, across the George Washington Bridge and onto River Road in New Jersey. We decided to...
Basia HellwigOctober 3, 2010
Tomato Sauce, Batch 2
LAST WEEK READER JOHN FROM TORONTO passed on his great you-can-do-this method for making tomato sauce, which he learned from a Sicilian friend...
Basia HellwigSeptember 30, 2010