Here’s a recipe I’ve refined over the years. Prep time 20 minutes, cooking time 40 minutes. Ingredients: 2 cups brown basmati rice3 & ½ pounds chicken thighs, cut into 2 or 3 inch stripssix cloves fresh garlic, finely chopped1 tablespoon ginger, finely chopped3 or 4 cups brown button (crimini) mushrooms, chopped into halves or thirds … Continue reading Basil chicken with mushroom, asparagus and red pepper
Call me strange, but I love critics. I can feel you rolling your eyes from here, but hear me out. I rely on them all the time to help me decide on whether I want to further investigate music, movies, food, drink, art, restaurants, bars. All sorts. And good critics do that: give you enough … Continue reading On Criticism
After three weeks here I’m finally starting to feel a little less like a tourist gimp from nowheresville. Our new apartment is a pre-war building in Hell’s Kitchen on a picturesque, tree-lined one way street in Hell’s Kitchen, a couple of blocks from Times Square in the Theatre District. Times Square is truly spectacular at … Continue reading Settling in to NYC: a kiwi gourmand explores Manhattan on the downlow
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