Chris Nordquist
Delivery is handy, but there’s nothing better than tucking into a pizza fresh from the oven, waiting to devour it only long enough to avoid burning your mouth. Fortunately, with just a little practice, making pizza at home is quick and simple. And it’s fun too, whether you’re entertaining families, kids or a bunch of […]
In Southampton for the annual Spring ritual of household repairs and service, most of which we managed to schedule on the same day. The highlight: the dreary, dirty canvas cover was replace by a clean, sparkling swimming pool! Now if it were just about 25 degrees warmer . . .
My grandparents had several very productive walnut trees in their garden, so we always seemed to have an unlimited supply when I was a kid, which we in large brown grocery bags stored at the very backs of cupboards to keep them cool and dark. We mostly ate them raw or baked with them (I […]
“I didn’t know the Easter Bunny baked!” That was the first thing four year-old Julia said last Easter morning. The night before, this particular Easter Bunny had baked one of her favorite treats –a tender, gently sweet breakfast bread– into the shape of her name and set it out with her Easter basket. I think […]
The snow and bitter cold are finally gone, so it’s time again to pack my helmet and cycle all over Manhattan (well, downtown anyway) with the Citibike bike share system. There’s a rack right outside our building, so no excuses. Now I just need to get a Hövding to save my brain and my vanity at […]
Come to think of it, I’m not sure why a spinach pie is associated with Easter, but I’ve made it as the first course of Easter dinner for past 10 years –probably more. The ingredients are available year-round, but the flavor is so fresh and, well, green, that I guess people associate it with the coming […]
This is the second in a series about great food you can make very quickly. Again, the rules of Speedy Gourmet: a complete entree you can make in no longer than fifteen minutes using just five ingredients (water, salt, pepper and basic cooking fats don’t count). And this one’s a French classic. In fact, the […]
