Tagged: Recipes

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A Quest for Dasheen and Salt Cod in the West Indies of Brooklyn

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Crown Heights lies at the center of Brooklyn’s Caribbean community, home to one of the largest expatriate populations in the US with immigrants from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Haiti, and elsewhere. Nostrand Avenue, running north-south through Crown Heights, is dotted with roti shops and groceries, making it an ideal place to shop for West Indian ingredients.

February 8, 2011 Boroughing, Food, Things to Do
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Riot Grrrl Molly Neuman Gets Back in the Kitchen

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I’m sitting in Molly Neuman’s kitchen, where the punk rocker, newly incarnated as a chef and proprietor of Simple Social Kitchen, is making a tortilla de patata. She’s hardly the first musician to create a new career in food, but although it’s not quite a movement, there is something superficially similar about the two careers. “For me the connection is creativity, being able to make something from an idea,” she says, when I ask her what the similarities are between cooking and music. Of course, there’s much more to it than that.

October 5, 2010 Classic, Food, Multi/Media, Photo
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The Dish: Spicy Long Pie Pumpkin Soup

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Why is it that pumpkin-flavored food items are always better in theory than in practice? Here’s a pumpkin-flavored thing that doesn’t disappoint: Pumpkin.

September 28, 2010 Classic, Food, Recipes
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The Dish: Amaranth and Goat Cheese Frittata

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Amaranth was brought to the New World by West African slaves, and is a staple of Caribbean cuisine, appearing in Callaloo and also as a juice, in soups, and in places elsewhere occupied by spinach. I used mine in a frittata with goat cheese; for the recipe, read on.

September 8, 2010 Classic, Recipes
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The Dish: Visit the Sunset Park Greenmarket for Guacamole with Papalo

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Despite its tiny size, the Sunset Park Greenmarket has a sizeable proportion of produce geared towards the Latin market, with crates of fresh peppers (poblanos, jalapeños, cherry peppers), tomatillos, squash, epazote, and other herbs both foreign and flavorful. Find out what I did with this amazing array of fresh herbs and veggies with a recipe for guacamole and papalo.

August 16, 2010 Classic, Food, In Brooklyn, Multi/Media, Photo, Recipes
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