Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brooklyn, Celiac Disease, chicken Cacciatora, Chicken Hunter's Style, espresso, Food, Gluten-Free, Recipe, wheat free on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Public Domain Illustration via Wikipedia.
my brain light;
tossing this and that
into the pot;
seasoning none of my life
the same way twice; happy to feed
whoever strays my way.”
Poem at Thirty-Nine by Alice Walker, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
No one made a Brooklyn-style Italian meat-and-tomato sauce for pasta like my Aunt Mildred. Her sauce was heavy with meats – pork, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brooklyn Italian Food, Celiac Disease, Dean Martin, folk history, Food, Gluten-Free, Italian Food, Louisa's Resturant, Mambo Italiano, Pasta with Ricotta, Recipe, wheat free on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dean Martin singing Mambo Italiano
Our Friday night hangout: Louisa’s Restaurant on 90th and Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn. Yum! Baked Stuffed Clams, Pasta, Salad, Garlic Bread, Bisque Tortini, Hoffman’s cream soda, and Dean on the jukebox. For years I thought you had to drink cream soda with Italian food because that’s what we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brooklyn-Italian Soup, Celiac Disease, folk history, Food, Gluten-Free, Greens, Italian Food, Minest, Pesto, Pistou, Recipe, Soup, Vinaigrette on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photograph of fresh Greens via Wikipedia under GNU Free Documentation License
“this clutter of soup pots and books—”, Tree by Jane Hirshfield, Given Sugar, Given Salt: Poems
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Minest: It’s unlikely that you will find this recipe in a cookbook or even on-line. It’s classic Brooklyn-Italian, great winter comfort food, a soup lush [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Celiac Disease, Gluten-Free, Gluten-Free NY Cheesecake, Junior's Cheesecake, Merry Christmas, NY Cheesecake on December 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Photograph: Photographer and origins unknown.
Best wishes for the holidays, no matter which one you are or aren’t celebrating. Christmas Blessings! Metta! Le Heim! Happy Holidays!
This is a recipe a la Juniors. If you don’t have celiac disease and wheat and gluten are not problems for you, you can order a Junior’s cheesecake directly from the restaurant. The traditional recipe calls [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Celiac Disease, DeKalb Avenue, Flatbush, Gluten-Free, Gluten-Free NY Cheesecake, Harry Rosen, Junior's Cheesecake, Junior's Restaurant, NY Cheesecake, Redhook, Wheat and Gluten Sensitivity on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ask any cabbie to take you to the “best cheesecake restaurant in town” and s/he will take you to Junior’s Deli and Restaurant on Flatbush and DeKalb. Guaranteed.
This is Brooklyn soul food at it’s best. Even before Junior’s, Harry Rosen, was serving the Brooklyn public good food. In 1950, he started Junior’s, which he [...]
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