Trial Run
photo by Jessica Oshita
This past weekend, we had our inaugural Supper Club dinner with Spring’s bounty. It was a blast and a great group of people came through, all who seemed to enjoy the company, the food, and the space. Before we show you the post on that dinner we wanted to show you our “trial run” dinner we had in early Spring. We invited a handful of our foodie friends to a secret location where dinner was prepared by Corey Chow, the Sous Chef at a three star Michelin-ranked NY resto and drinks were concocted and served by Kelly Carambula of Eat Make Read.
Luscious Life
A couple of weeks ago, we decided to go on a detox to cleanse our bodies of, well, toxins. We ended up eating a mainly vegan, gluten-free, no caffeine, no alcohol diet for about 2 weeks. Honestly, it wasn’t that bad and we really did feel better. In fact, we’re still following some of the same rules! Of course we added alcohol back into our diets, c’mon guys, it’s summer…
Even though we were cutting out a lot of our normal foods, we still wanted to be able to eat tasty dishes while sticking to our diet so we did quite a bit of research. While recipe-searching, we remembered Lagusta of Lagusta’s Luscious and Bluestocking BonBons. Lagusta recently approached me (Caroline) to create a banner for her vegan chocolate company and that’s when we also discovered her amazing New Paltz, NY-based vegetarian home meal delivery company (everything looked soooo yummy). When we started the detox, we turned to Lagusta for some recipes and a little get-to-know-you.
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OLÉ to Molé!
This is the last of our Oaxacan posts, I (Caroline, here) wanted to share with you my experience at a cooking class I took while in Oaxaca. I met 2 wonderful people, Australians nomadically living in Oaxaca who are currently working on a cookbook about Mexican food. I know, it sounds strange but after taking the class, meeting the people, and tasting the food, its not so weird. Travis Harvey and Kerin Ferguson have done their fair share of research, visiting the local farms to learn about the agriculture, getting to know the Mexican people and their food. The class was really fun and we learned everything from the basic tools necessary to a little bit about food chemistry! Continue reading OLÉ to Molé!…
Food Adventure: Oaxaca
This is a special food adventure because I (Caroline, speaking) got to travel all the way to Oaxaca, Mexico to go adventuring. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but, we, numnum girls, LOVE mexican food. Moving to New York from California was hard on our burrito/taco lovin’ mouths because it was so hard to come by, thankfully times have changed.
Oaxaca is known for their chocolates, coffee, and MOLÉ. Oaxaca is an amazing place for food, everything was super tasty and crazy cheap. We had street food most of the time but it ended up being way better than fancy restaurant meals.
Our first meal was at the local, organic market which sets up every Sunday at the ferrocarrîl museo, an old railroad yard. Dining al fresco, underneath the trees with fresh corn, squash, squash blossoms underneath the trees was the perfect welcome. All the tortillas were being freshly made in front of us, blue corn tortillas were soft and slightly crisp. There’s also a vendor from Italy, whose wife is from Korea (after having met in India, then moving to Oaxaca) so they had some pastries, pizzas, a couple of korean items, and a wonderful chai.
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Special Requests
Last week was Heather’s birthday and her only special requests were that we do a low-key, intimate dinner and for it to be gluten and meat-free. We were happy to oblige, being that she is one of our nearest and dearest friends. So we had a bit of a challenge on our hands since we love our bread and gluten, but we’ve been meaning to try a vegan/gluten-free week soon so this was a good test. The dinner was successful and very grown-up, a small dinner party in our make-shift dining room.
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The Ultimate Craving
We are really excited to be a part of Issue 2 of Remedy Quarterly, not only is it a great magazine but created by really amazing people. Half of the creators are one of our favorite couples ever, Aaron and Kelly Carambula. This new issue is all about cravings, with contributions by David Lebovitz and Ashley English to name a few. And for us, what more would we crave than sweets and fried food, FRIED CHICKEN and WAFFLES. Yes, together and yes, it’s delicious!
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Mussel Beach
We love to dream… and while day dreaming we dreamt of eating al fresco by a Parisian Café with a bowl full of mussels and a freshly baked baguette. Especially after our post on the French Cookbook, “I Know How to Cook,” we knew we wanted to revisit the Mussels section but without the heavy weight of butter that the cookbook calls for. This delectable dish is made with a tomato and clam broth with a nice kick of spice to it. The baguette that is completely necessary for a dish like this is used to sop up all the juicy goodness. Best of all, this dish was cheap and easy! Mussels really don’t cost that much and are fairly easy to prepare, so never fear and dream away with us. Bon Apettit! Continue reading Mussel Beach…
The Art of Eating In: DIY Food adventure with Souther Salazar
Well, our week of eating in is complete and we went out (only figuratively!) with a bang if we do say so ourselves (full recap to come). One thing we realized is that skipping restaurant meals is kinda hard, especially if you have guests in from out of town. Case in point: this past weekend our awesome friend and amazing artist Souther Salazar was visiting New York from L.A. with his super rad girlfriend Monica for the opening of his gallery’s five-year anniversary group exhibition and we couldn’t take them to a single one of our fave Brooklyn restos. No leisurely brunches, no dinners out on the town—it was then that we felt the pain of our pledge. But we’re nothing if not determined. Luckily, Souther was game for a DIY food adventure so instead of having him pick a place to eat, we picked the spot (our kitchen!) and let him choose the menu (we think Cathy Erway would be proud). His first request was a dish he’d discovered on Nate Cooks (Vanderbilt-inspired Sriracha Brussels sprouts), which we were happy to oblige. And when his love for pulled pork sandwiches came to light, we jumped at the chance to break out our long-neglected slow cooker and try out a recipe Kelly had just been raving about (chipotle orange barbecue pork). Topped with some homemade pickled cucumbers and red onions, it was a meal of epic tasty proportions and the most memorable way to wrap up our week of not eating out.
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The Art of Eating In: San Bei Ji with Green Beans
Since Cathy Erway is the gal who inspired our week of eating in, we decided this would be the perfect time to try one of the recipes from her book. We were having one of our favorite foodie friends over for dinner and a brainstorming sesh (more on that later!), so we wanted something that was relatively quick and easy (didn’t wanna be serving dinner at 10pm), and hearty enough to feed the three of us yet would still yield leftovers for the next day’s lunch (if nothing else, our week of not eating out has been a huge exercise in the art of planning). We decided on San Bei Ji, a Taiwanese dish known as three cup chicken, that Erway made for one of her first dinner parties. The ingredients are pretty simple and the outcome is pretty tasty, especially with a good dollop of Sriracha to top it off.
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Special Guest Food Adventure: Saelee Oh at Ippudo
Back in January, Saelee told us that she was coming out to install and open her solo show at Jonathan Levine Gallery. Saelee has spent most of her last 2 years traveling around the world to various places and in between trips she’s making amazing paintings and paper cut-outs. Whenver Saelee comes to New York for a visit she always has a list of places she wants to eat and so we had her take her pick and she chose Ippudo. We couldn’t have asked for anything more on that brisk, winter evening. A hot bowl of ramen was exactly what our tummies called for and not even a 2 hour wait was going to stop us from having it.
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