Lemon Chicken with Angelhair
April is here? Where are the tulips? Why is it still cold? When is it going to be Spring!?! These questions run through every pinned-up New Yorker’s mind, as they long to come out of their latter stages of cabin fever. New York City winters are brutal and seem ungodly long, spanning anywhere from 5 to 6 months typically. Around the fourth month, we find ourselves yearning for the...
Read MorePerfect Chicken or Perfect Chicken Soup
As a private chef, I constantly have to multitask. Catering to New York’s elite leaves me running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off: shopping 3 times a day (for each meal), running errands for my clients, pop up 6-course dinner parties for 12 with only a 3-hour notice, etc… You get the picture. Speaking of chickens with their heads cut off, here is one of my...
Read MoreProsciutto & Melon Lollipops
This is a fun, classy & easy summer hors d’oeuvres and it involves only 3 ingredients: ripe melon, grissini (those thin, Italian breadsticks) and thinly sliced prosciutto (or substitute with my personal favorite, jamon serrano). ***Feel free to use multiple colors of melon in this recipe. My favorites are cantaloupe, honeydew, galia, water melon, etc. First cut the grissini into...
Read MoreEmergency Guacamole
Here is a useful trick -and it is just in time for those summer gatherings… Whenever I make Guacamole, I add half a package of Lemon/Lime Emergen-C to prevent it from oxidizing. A bowl of that mushy green stuff usually starts turning brown in 15 minutes. It usually takes 4 days for the color start to change using my secret ingredient. Emergen-C is great, I can throw a fun summer...
Read MoreEarth Day Cake
If you really think about it, Earth Day should be the world’s most important holiday. Obviously if it were not for the Earth, none of us would be here because important holidays are cause for celebration (and I cannot think of anything as celebratory as cake) let’s start the tradition of making flowerpot cake for Earth Day!!! For the cake (I am using my Recession cake recipe) 2 cups all...
Read MoreLet Us Eat Cake!!! Tax Day Recession Cake
It’s April 15th!!! As Americans, we eat, sleep, sh*t and die… Oh yeah, and most importantly we pay our taxes. This past year has been a hard one and before you decide to join Michelle Malkin at one of her tea parties, calm down and think about making a cake instead. During the WWII era, in order to their stretch rations, housewives used mayonnaise in their baking instead of eggs...
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