I must confess I was a little stumped when asked to prepare a Super Bowl-appropriate recipe for this week’s home cook edition. Wings, pizza, nachos, dips are not really part of my everyday repertoire. But I wasn’t going to shy away from the task. After looking through cookbooks, I decided…
In this week’s Home Cooking edition, I get lazy and throw together a salad for one. That’s fine by me, because I love salads, and not for health reasons. This one in particular makes a filling lunch or light dinner. I dressed it with vinaigrette made from a recipe in…
We’ve been giving you updates about the continuing adventures of Sidewalk Chef Shashank Agtey since May 2009.We’ve told you the story of his humble beginnings, short version: a wealthy 17-year-old kid from Bombay whose eyesight doesn’t meet Air Force standards is dropped off in Miami by his father with little…
So it’s pasta. Dressed simply with tomatoes, garlic and olive oil. What’s the big deal? I’ll tell you. It’s comforting, easy to make and relatively inexpensive. It never fails in those “I could care less for cooking” moments. Which typically occur on a weekday night when all you want is…
We’ve raved in the past about Ayesha D’Mello’s Indian cooking classes. For $75 you get to learn specific regional recipes (usually for six to eight dishes) in a fun environment — and then feast on the always-delectable end results. I took the class a year or so ago and have…
James Beard Award-nominated Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink brings his and his team’s knowledge to your home cooking with The Genuine Kitchen column. A guest blogger for this installment, Michael’s Genuine bar manager Ryan Goodspeed shares a recipe suitable for the recent dip in temperature. You…
Happy Holidays from Miami-Dade County. Check out our Christmas tree. Down south in the Redland, fields of papaya trees are bearing fruit. We shot this picture yesterday on the side of Quail Roost Drive.Papaya, or la fruta bomba, as it is sometimes known, is a fruit grown in tropical climates…
Eggnog is one of those staples that should be voted off the holiday table. Really, is that warm, thick, egg-y beverage the best thing to drink with your holiday meal? Especially in this Miami heat? Eggnog originated in England and was brought over to America by the colonists. Originally made…
Chef David Whyko, CIA graduate and former personal chef to Lenny Kravitz, is all about healthy but flavorful food. Inspired by his 12 years working for Kravitz, a job in which he prepared healthy meals to take on long bus rides in exotic places, he opened Delishe in 2008. There…
Have you ever messed up cooking ramen noodles? If you answered yes, like we did, you could probably use some professional help of the cooking variety.Give thanks for South Florida’s bounty of highly touted, greatly revered, very experienced, mostly trained, and overall excellent chefs and for Whole Foods harnessing its…
There’s room for more than just one stone crab delivery outfit in this town, but don’t expect Strickly Stone Crabs to remove the hard shell. “We won’t do it. The second the meat hits the air, it begins breaking down and losing freshness.”So said Strickly’s owner, Nancy Davis, when we…
James Beard Award-nominated Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink brings his knowledge to your home cooking with a new column, The Genuine Kitchen. A guest blogger for this installment, Michael’s Genuine Executive Pastry Chef Hedy Goldsmith shares a recipe and thoughts on basil, one of her favorite…
Hedy Goldsmith, executive pastry chef of Michael’s Genuine Food and Drink, has been recognized by Pear Bureau Northwest as its December “Pear Panache” chef of the month for her Pear and Cardamom Granita with Pistachio Pomegranate Biscotti.”Chef Goldsmith’s granita is a showstopper,” said Kevin Moffitt, president and CEO of Pear…
Big, fat, oven-roasted turkey – check. Stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce – check. Grilled leg of lamb with cranberry salsa verde? Oh yes! Check please! Whether it’s Thanksgiving, or a big family get-together, this twist on a traditional staple will wow ’em. Bone-in leg of lamb has marvelous flavor and is…
James Beard Award nominee Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink brings his knowledge to your home cooking with a new column, The Genuine Kitchen. With each installment, he’ll discuss an ingredient or theme and then deliver a recipe. Questions or comments? Email thegenuinekitchen@michaelsgenuine.com or follow Chef on…
Mayor Manny Diaz is like the Bill Clinton of Miami, people just like the guy. Well, maybe not everybody, but here he is at the Roots in the City urban farm in Overtown (NW Third Avenue and Ninth Street, Miami) talking collard greens with South Florida historian Marvin Dunn, who…
A placita, or little plaza, is a fortified central patio or courtyard found in buildings all over the world, but especially Spanish style ones in Mexico and the Southwest U.S. Placita Los Girasoles (15970 SW 177 Avenue), of sunflowers, is a fruit and produce market and nursery in the Redlands…
Last night in an Upper East Side event space called the Coverings Showroom, Slow Food Miami’s membership met for its annual conference. With a musical booth buffet orchestrated by Chef Kris Wessel of nearby Red Light Little River, the evening was less structured meeting and more pre-Thanksgiving pause. It was…
What’s a Design District exhibition space got to do with liquid nitrogen aided cooking?Everybody has to eat; especially starving artists, moreso ones with money. Food is universal.Last night, Chef Jeff McInnis from the DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach held a cooking demo and Q&A at Locust Projects…
College isn’t all about beer bongs, orgies and smoking like the Everglades. It’s also about learning stuff. Miami-Dade College’s School of Community Education is all about advancing your knowledge. Anybody can sign up, and you don’t need any stupid high school diploma either.Wolfson Campus (300 NE Second Avenue, Miami) has…
James Beard Award nominee Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink brings his knowledge to your home cooking with a new column, The Genuine Kitchen. With each installment, he’ll discuss an ingredient or theme and then deliver a recipe. Questions or comments? Email thegenuinekitchen@michaelsgenuine.com.Like most of my food,…
Shashank Agtey is the Sidewalk Chef, a wacky South Florida entrepreneur with over twenty years experience in professional kitchens starting at The Forge on Miami Beach back when it was still owned by gansgta gangsta Meyer Lansky.We’ve written about the Sidewalk Chef before, click here and here to follow the…
