Year: 2012

Make Your Own Curry Powder & Chile Oil & The History Of Curry

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[1] Homemade curry powder (photo © Savory Spice Shop | Facebook). [2] Coconut chicken curry with basmati saffron rice (photo © Cafe Spice). [3] Fish curry (photo © Sun Basket). [4] Keema curry, an Indian curry made of ground meat and minced vegetables (photo © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog). [5] Goat curry (photo ©…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Povitica, A Cousin Of Babka

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Chocolate povitica: a winner. Photo courtesy Strawberry Hill.   When we received a note telling us to expect a shipment of Strawberry Hill Povitica (poe-veet-suh), we rushed to the company website to answer the question: What is povitica? It is, as we discovered, an eastern European yeast cake similar to Russian babka—but better. Richer. More…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Rethink The Dinner Salad

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Looking for dinner salad ideas? Look no further than this alluring interpretation we had at Orsay, a restaurant in Manhattan that specializes in classic brasserie fare (with some modern dishes like this French-style “dinner salad”). You can also serve it as a luncheon salad, or as a first course to a larger meal. The concept…
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