The Diva That Ate New York // Recipes
I designed RECI-tees, which have food illustrations on the front and recipes on the back, to encourage folks to cook. How hard can a recipe that fits on the back of T-shirt be to make? I like to treat recipes as a color palette with the dish as my original painting. The basic color scheme is there, but it’s up to me to create my own work of art. Like my grandmother Maude, who hardly ever wrote a recipe down, I tend toward the “a bit of this and a bit of that” school of cooking. With the Internet, I like to download about four or five recipes and take what I like best from each, and then add my own twists. Whatever I have written here, take as just a guide—don’t be afraid to improvise!
Are you lazy? I definitely am… sometimes. But not when it comes to cooking and baking. These pinchably CUTE! cookies are a lil bit of a “love job” or even “love cookies” because there’s a bit of work in making them. Not complicated, but there are three definitive steps that you can do in one day or spread over several days. The dough is tender because you use powdered sugar and lots of butter. It’s not as tough as a standard shortbread or sugar cookie dough, but the texture is heavenly. You do need to be a little careful dipping them, but it’s totally worth it. When you love people, you make them “love” cookies.
Posted by Jackie on Dec 14, 2010 – 9:00 AM
Tags Jackie cooks ·
Recipes ·
Networking tasting events
(1115) Views ·
Permalink
These rock! Liza de Guia is an inspiration. Not only does the lovely founder & chief storyteller of FOOD CURATED make rich and informative videos about passionate people who bring us incredible foods, but when she was on a holiday, she tweeted about eating bacon wrapped sweet plantains and bells went off in my head! Ding! Ding! I had to make them!
I decided that the sugar in the plantains and smoky goodness of the bacon would be DELISH with a spicy dipping sauce. I love the salty, garlic in oil condiment that is served in Latino restaurants would be a good place to start, but maybe too over-the-top for my guests. The lime and chilies and cilantro temper the garlic.
My guests flipped for these! YUM! YUM! YUM!
Posted by Jackie on Dec 1, 2010 – 12:00 PM
Tags Gordon family eatz ·
Jackie cooks ·
Recipes
(1103) Views ·
Permalink
I love Thanksgiving so much I have it twice! I have the immediate family and a couple of friends, who are orphaned, on the official day and a leftover party on the Friday for my friends who are feeding and serving the people who can’t or don’t cook Thanksgiving dinner and eat out instead. It may seem over-the-top, but it’s the way the cooks in my family show our gratitude and express our love for family and friends.
Posted by Jackie on Nov 23, 2010 – 1:10 PM
Tags Gordon family eatz ·
Jackie cooks ·
Recipes
(678) Views ·
Permalink
This is a great Thanksgiving dessert that is super-easy to make and looks like you worked much harder than you did.
Posted by Jackie on Nov 20, 2010 – 1:21 PM
Tags Jackie cooks ·
Recipes
(481) Views ·
Permalink
I rediscovered"dukkah” a delicious and highly versatile treat when I was back in Australia in August 2010. I have never made or even seen it on a menu here in the states. It’s easy to make and delicious to just eat with bread and fruity olive oil or to accent or spice up any number of dishes. It’s originally from Egypt and translated the word “dukkah” means to pound.
Posted by Jackie on Oct 1, 2010 – 1:29 PM
Tags Jackie cooks ·
Recipes
(562) Views ·
Permalink
For many New Yorkers, a home cooked meal is a rarity, a pearl in an ocean of eating out, deliveries–in and sustenance grabbed on the Go!–Go!–Go! For nearly all of food enthusiast Mercedes Batista’s almost eighty years, cooking is a ritual, a gift she gives herself everyday. I joined Mercedes at the West Village apartment where she has lived happily alone for the past forty of those years for dinner.
Posted by Jackie on Apr 3, 2010 – 5:33 AM
Tags New Yorkers who really cook ·
Recipes
(974) Views ·
Permalink
Meal #22 of The Wandering Foodies 93 Plates project found Hagan and I enjoying breakfast at the Iris Cafe, a new cafe in Brooklyn Heights. One word: Delicious! It’s on the road less traveled: Columbia Place, but that street should get worn out soon by people trekking over to get divine raisin sticky buns, yummy ham and cheddar scones, homey soft boiled, farm fresh egg breakfasts with divine Surryano Ham (It’s spelled correctly!) and awesome oatmeal served up with the best tea I’ve ever had and the super sought after Stumptown coffee!!! We did not even try the sandwiches , but Liza de Guia, Food Curated’s story-teller and self-proclaimed food addict (@SkeeterNYC on Twitter) says they are to die for. So I deliberately did not buy the sticky buns so I could head back very, very soon and try them… and then devour more sticky buns!
Posted by Jackie on Jan 8, 2010 – 1:44 PM
Tags Food joints ·
Recipes ·
The diva tasted
(1158) Views ·
Permalink
My mom learned this chicken curry recipe from Portuguese-Indian friends that lived next door to us on the Lower East Side in the land before time. It’s dead easy crowd pleaser.
Posted by Jackie on Dec 27, 2009 – 12:47 PM
Tags Jackie cooks ·
Recipes
(694) Views ·
Permalink
Perfect for cooling the heat of curry or as a side dish for a BBQ. I had extra apples so I whipped up this raita recipe.
Posted by Jackie on Dec 27, 2009 – 12:00 PM
Tags Jackie cooks ·
Recipes
(786) Views ·
Permalink
A divine, easy cookie that I made up because I had a ten pound block of gianduja (Callebaut’s hazelnut milk chocolate — like Nutella’s richer, classier and more delicious cousin) to get rid of. It’s going folks, slowly, but surely. I may weep a little when it’s actually gone.
I made these for a friend’s birthday party after the caramel layer I was planning broke and started burning and spitting clarified butter all over the stove — very unattractive. After chucking that mess, I rushed to whip these up and ran to the party leaving them behind! There is a lesson in there. I believe it is: If you forget to bring the dessert with you, you get to keep it all for yourself. YIPPEE!!!
Posted by Jackie on Dec 21, 2009 – 8:06 AM
Tags Jackie cooks ·
Recipes
(984) Views ·
Permalink
