Feb 09, 2010 | From the kitchen of Rose
in APPEARANCES
I will add to this posting as I find out about more events so if you are interested in following this, please click on "post/read comments" and then on the little box at the bottom: "let me know if someone adds a comment"
Wednesday, February 10, Joan Hamburg WOR Radio "Recipe of the Week" 12:06 to 12:25 East Coast.
Friday, January 15, Martha Stewart Serius Radio, Everyday Food with Betsy Karetnick: 12:15 to 12:40
Friday, December 11: 12:00 Eastern, Ann & Peter HaighOn the Menu Internet based, podcast www.onthemenuradio.com
December 11: Lynne Rossetto Kasper, The Splendid Table will become available to stations around the country. Check out the podcast or when it will appear on your local station: http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/listings/
Thursday, December 17, Martha Stewart Serius Radio, 4 to 5:00 Eastern
Monday, December 21, 12:40 to 1:00 Eastern, The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC
Wednesday, December 23, 12:00-1:00HearSay with Cathy Lewis live out of Norfolk Virginia
WHRV-FM/WHRO
Tuesday, December 29, 12:30 PM KWMR Marin County, Simulcasts: www.kwmr.org Pleasures in Taste
Feb 07, 2010 | From the kitchen of Rose
in Drinks
1 1/2 ounces vodka
1 1/2 ounces Boyajian pomegranate concentrate
lots of new fallen snow spooned over it
Note: You can also try frozen pomegranate concentrate or pomegranate juice added to taste but the Boyajian variety is fantastic!
Feb 06, 2010 | From the kitchen of Rose
in Did You Know
Did you know that not all plastic bags can be boiled? Only the ones designed for that purpose such as these bags from FoodSaver vacuumer. It took me years to figure out that when I vacuum pack my meatballs in tomato sauce I can reheat them along with the spaghetti right in the bag!
A good quality vacuum machine is an indispensable piece of equipment in my kitchens. You wouldn't believe how much it increases the life-span of ingredients in the freezer.
Feb 05, 2010 | From the kitchen of Rose
in Photos
I just can't stop finding an excuse to make The Golden Almond Lemon Cake from the new book.
Today's excuse is to try out the elegant new Nordicware fluted tube pan introduced to us by Raymond on his blog as part of the Heavenly Cake Bake Along.
One of my favorite things about these deeply fluted tube pans is how amazing it looks when cut:
Feb 03, 2010 | From the kitchen of Rose
in OUT CAKES
In response to a request from Susan for photos of the few cakes that were not pictured in the new book we have combed through our photo files and came up with some photos that while not perfectly styled shots will at least serve to show the textures of most of those cakes and/or frostings.
A snippet of the White Velvet cake with Milk Chocolate Ganache
Génoise Très Café
Coconut Cheesecake
Marble Velvet
The cake on the left was baked in a silicone pan. The one on the right was baked in a cast aluminum pan. The difference in color of the chocolate swirl is only a function of how much batter was mixed into the chocolate and not the way the pan baked.
And for good measure, a close up of the Heavenly Coconut Seduction Cake
Chocolate Génoise
Caramel Ganache
Feb 02, 2010 | From the kitchen of Rose
in Special Stories
When I saw Gael Green's writeup on her blog Fork Play on Danny Meyer's newest restaurant Maialino in the Grammercy Park Hotel I lost no time in making a dinner reservation to enjoy the suckling pig from which the restaurant derived its name.
I always knew in my heart that pig potential was far greater than any rendition I had yet to experience--after all, that Chinese farmer and son in Charles Lamb's tale had to have a better reason to burn down their farm than the dry flavorless meat suckling pig so often turns out to be.
Yes!!! Braised in rosemary, garlic, and white wine, with crackling skin true to its descriptor--it was rich, succulent, and perfectly fabulous. And, the potatoes had imbibed the delicious juices!
Our exquisitely charming waitress (and the service could not have been better) suggested an excellent and affordable burgundy from the Alto Adige. The restaurant was packed (including Danny and his family) so it was especially impressive that no one in any way suggested that the two of us give up our four seat banquette in which we were happily ensconced for all of three hours. I was so ridiculously content I didn't even manage to feel too guilty!
We were seated close enough to the panini station to smell the enticing aromas emanating from it and the promising aromas from the coffee station caused me to break my no coffee at restaurants rule (as it invariably disappoints even at the best of them) to end the dinner with an excellent cup of capuccino served with a chocolate biscotti--so delicious I didn't for once add any sugar whatsoever to the coffee and didn't miss it.
But I can't close without mentioning the divinely creamy and intensely pistachio ice cream, fiore di latte ice cream, and refreshingly palate cleansing campari/grapefruit sorbet (which when combined with the fior de latte was reminiscent of the best possible popsickle).
We walked out into the cold January night air and felt no chill--we were radiating heat and happiness. Forgive me for raving--I just couldn't help myself.
P.S. And while I'm in raving mode I might as well confess that Erika's linguini alle vongole (clam sauce) first course was also the best I've ever had including my own.
Feb 01, 2010 | From the kitchen of Rose
in Special Stories
I was walking along 34th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues and heard a tall down-on-his-luck street man utter the following astonishing request:
Please give me something to eat; anything a little garlicky would be deeply appreciated!
If I hadn't been on my way to a doctor's appointment I would have stopped into the nearby Thai restaurant and ordered something for him. I've had bad experiences offering street people food I happened to be carrying learning that they really wanted money and probably to use for booze or drugs. One actually flung my offering of food out of my hand. But this guy touched my heart by his request--I knew he was one of us--a food person. When I left my appointment I looked for him but he had changed location and was no where to be seen.
Jan 30, 2010 | From the kitchen of Rose
in Special Stories
Those of you who have been following the Joe Pastry Chronicles revealing the maverick side to my baking personality may be amused to see just how far back this goes.
It was my father who took these photos of me when I was about four years old. He managed to catch a special ritual I had established but he needed to do it on two separate occasions (note the different outfits) in order not to preempt me that he was photographing, as I would have resisted.
My father had built a porch on our little house in Far Rockaway, Long Island, and put up a gate to keep me from wandering off. When I was old enough no longer to need the gate he didn't bother to remove it. So the gate that was meant to keep me in I used (with great glee) to keep people out. (The defining concept of the Bauhaus--aside from form following function which I embraced on first hearing--is seeing things in a new different and often opposite way.)
Here's little Rosie 'innocently' sneaking up to the gate.
And here I am having succeeded in locking it just before the person was hoping to enter (hahahahah).
Ultimately I did wander off into the empty lot next door. I was intrigued by the sparkling broken glass and stars of Bethlehem flowers. My grandmother threatened to call the police the second time I disappeared. That worked--until I got older. It was the beginning of my calling as an explorer.
Here I was, a few years younger, on that same back porch, furious that my mother insisted upon hiding behind me in the lilac bushes to support me from behind to keep me from falling over backwards. I was certain I wouldn't but nowadays I would never be angry at any show of support, realizing how easy it is to 'fall over backwards'!
Last week I had an amazing experience during a photo shoot in my apartment. FIT (the Fashion Institute of Technology) was doing a story that will appear in their alumni magazine, Hue. (I will be posting it on the blog.) To save everyone time I had suggested using one of my existing press photos but they wanted a candid (un-posed) shot. They brought in photographer Matthew Septimus who succeeded in blowing my cover! Not since those photos of me and the gate did anyone capture the mischievous me. I've seen this happen twice in live Shakespearean theater--that magic unforgettable moment when everything synchs just right. I've captured it once myself photographing the chef in a tiny sushi restaurant in Kyoto (one day I'll post that photo) and I let down my guard for one brief instant of longing for the past, that Martha Stewart caught with her eyes during a photo session of my wedding cake on the porch of her Turkey Hill home. I'm mystified by these moments. One can't make them happen but when they do it stays with you for life. A stranger in France during an unforgettable trip with Shirley Corriher, told us that when he looks at people he wonders "what size hammer he needs to break through the window of their resistance." We all have these windows or walls that keep us functional.
But when the veil lifts even for a fraction of a second it seems like the pathway to eternity has been revealed. No doubt Matthew Septimus has captured it many times (see his site) but it's the first time anyone has captured the inner me in a photo. Here's a preview!
Continue reading "Born Bauhausian" »
Jan 29, 2010 | From the kitchen of Rose
in Special Stories
Imagine experiencing Haydn's Il Mondo della Luna The World on the Moon (a rarely performed comic opera) in the dome of the Haydn Planetarium (at the Rose Center for Earth and Space no less)! There couldn't have been a more appropriate or perfect context and the production by the Gotham Chamber Opera took full advantage of it.
A special podium was built for the orchestra.
(taken shortly before we were instructed not to)
After the opening orchestral introduction, the stars (I mean singers) made their dramatic entrance and as they began to sing in Italian the English translation appeared in large letters on either side of the dome. What a wonderful way to see the translation as one was compelled to look heavenward by the appearance of stars and other amazing displays of comets, colors and designs truly giving the illusion of being on the moon.
The invitation came via e-mail from Nespresso, stating that I was one of 10 top customers to receive it. (Could I be drinking that much cappuccino?!)
Continue reading "The Stars Were Aligned Last Night" »
Jan 28, 2010 | From the kitchen of Rose
in Web Appearances
Andrew has a great new site called cookbooker. Click here for the Q & A we did this week!
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