Chris Nordquist
Well, summer’s nearly over. Sigh. But to give summer 2013 a cheerful send-off this coming Labor Day weekend, here’s the recipe for what turned out to be our favorite cocktail of the season. It was inspired by a drink of the same name at New York’s Locanda Verde (but I didn’t get a recipe, so […]
It was nearly noon on Sunday. I wanted to make a nice lunch for the three of us, but I also thought it would be more fun to play in the pool with Julia than to run to the market and work in the kitchen. (She agreed.) This recipe is a late summer favorite of […]
It’s everywhere just now –piled high in the market, all over restaurant menus (usually as a seasonal side) and, if you planted it in your vegetable garden, probably literally underfoot. Yes, it’s the season for zucchini –that tender, abundant summer vegetable that might just get to be too much of a good thing. Here’s my […]
Recipe (adapted from “Conchiglie with yogurt, peas and chile” from Jerusalem, a Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tammimi, serves 6) Ingredients 2 cups (or 500g) Greek yogurt (2% is great, but nonfat works too) 2/3 cup olive oil 2 small (or 1 large) cloves garlic, crushed 1 lb (or 500g) frozen peas 1 […]
In spite of a name that suggests a complex confectionary achievement of tsarist Russia, Pavolva is an Australian dessert (and some would say the Australian national dessert) with distinctly Australian virtues — it’s fresh, unfussy and lots of fun. Named after a famous Russian ballerina who visited Australia and New Zealand in the 1920s, the […]
