Cooking with Friends in East Hampton

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Slow roasted monkfish with root vegetables and brown butter sauce

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Humble crumble: easy finish for a perfect dinner

Humble crumble: easy finish for a perfect dinner

When it comes to desserts the world seems to fall into two camps: chocolate lovers and fruit lovers.  This simple blueberry and pineapple crumble will delight all fruit lovers at the dinner table.  Why is this crumble such a universal success?

The crumble is simply delicious. Its warm, guey and sweet fruits work well in cold winter days but also are great to present the first delights of our…

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New video: Cutting orange supremes

New video: Cutting orange supremes

In my quest to teach you kitchen skills that you never knew you didn’t have, my massive communications team and I are trying out a little video today that demonstrates the mastery of filleting an orange in order to create the spectacular orange supremes. One moment the orange is just sitting in a nondescript fruit bowl on the counter, and the next, freed from all its mundane orange membranes, it…

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Scallion-and-ginger-crusted salmon

How do recipes become heirloom recipes? We all have our go-to meals that we cook over and over. Our families and friends love them even after having them a million times. We cooks like them because we have the recipes burnt into our brains. The grocery cart finds its way to the key ingredients in aisles 2, 3, and 8 with GPS-guided precision. And finally, we can put the whole thing together in…

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Pan-roasted cod with radish juice and potato puree

Pan-roasted cod with radish juice and potato puree

It’s not every day that the humble radish, which just happens to be sprouting in my vegetable garden this week, gets the royal treatment. Loved by some but disliked by many, the radish often exists most comfortably in the neglected corners of a crudités plate. But today we’re making it the hero of our dish: it serves not only as the vegetable of this meal but its juice will further function as a…

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Baked sweet potato fries

Baked sweet potato fries

Sweet potatoes are not very well known in Germany. I remember my first American Thanksgiving, eating a sweet and heavily marsh-mellowed sweet potato puree. My skilled tongue could still identify, underneath all that sugary stuff, the true flavor of the sweet potato. That something-something between potato and carrot, I thought, is one worthy of a more prominent role. A one-man show, even. This…

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Red-wine poached pears with creme anglaise and almond caramel.

find the recipe at MyNewYorkKitchen.com

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Favorite Cookbooks: If I had to choose just one...

Favorite Cookbooks: If I had to choose just one…

We’ve all played the stranded-on-an-island game (“What would you take…?”). I can play this game.

I like collecting cookbooks, and a great many are lining my bookshelves. Nevertheless, there are a few that I find myself returning to over and over again. Somehow the recipes feel just right. Over the years the pages show the signs of heavy use: sauces splatter the pages, dried parsley enhances the…

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Find the recipe for this sunchoke soup at www.mynewyorkkitchen.com

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Easy Apricot Cake

This Apricot Cake is a fail-safe dessert. Our dinner guests just love it: the crunchy almonds on top mixing with the slightly caramelized cinnamon sugar, the light and crumbly texture of the cake batter and the delicious moist apricot slices just work so well together. You can assemble the apricot cake in just a few minutes and after 45 min in the oven you are done with your dessert. I also love…

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Strawberries and Yoghurt Foam

Strawberries and Yoghurt Foam

Here in New York we are hopefully experiencing the last days of winter.  After this long and cold season with all its rich and wholesome food I am starting to long for dishes on the lighter sidet: A fresh salad, some crunchy early season vegetables. But mostly I long for fresh berries.  Our local berries won’t ripe until June, but you always can find some strawberries in the fruit aisle of your…

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Parmesan Crisps with Goat-cheese Mousse

Parmesan Crisps with Goat-cheese Mousse

If you are planning a cocktail party and are in need of a sure-fire appetizer hit, these delicious Parmesan Crips with Goat-Cheese Mousse will do the trick.  Everybody will love the crunchy parmesan wavers crackling in their months while trying to reach the cool, savory mousse of goat-cheese, herbs and tiny morsels of shallot.  Its a big mouthful, but a rewarding mess to eat.  Here is what you…

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Simple Pleasure

A slice of crusty sourdough bread with some good butter is one of the simple and great food pleasures one can have.  It is hard to find this kind of bread.  Growing up in Germany we of course had multiple bakeries just around the corner from our home.  Some of them had been baking there bread for more then a hundred years. They were not the soft and sweet breads that you so often find here in the…

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Easy Tomato Salad

While summer is still months away and winter here in New York seems to be never-ending, I did feel the urge to eat a Tomato Salad the other day. A risky endeavor, because often the tomatoes you find in the vegetable isle are mealy and lack that luscious, summary aroma that I was craving. In the off-season I seem to have the best results with smaller tomatoes, heirlooms, and organically grown…

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Poached Pears with Creme Anglaise and Almond Brittle

Poached Pears with Creme Anglaise and Almond Brittle

Fruit-based desserts rank high for me as a delicious ending of an elegant dinner with friends.  They satisfy my sweet tooth while being not too filling (and as a figment of my imagination believe they are good for you).  This recipe for Poached Pears with Creme Anglaise and Almond Brittle is easy to prepare in advance, looks elegant on the plate and is actually quite low fat, since I prepare my…

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