SPRING RECIPE: Pasta Primavera Alfredo

Cooking dinner every day during quarantine, we’ve found spring pasta and pizza recipes that are a delightful break between the standards. We’ve been making “Spring Pizza”” once a week. It has spring peas and tendrils, sugar snap peas and watercress. When we have them in the fridge, we add asparagus, too. Now for a tandem…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Salad With Cheese

[1] A slice of Humboldt Fog goat cheese and seeded crisps broken into “croutons.” An idea from Lazy Dog Restaurants (photo © Lazy Dog Restaurants). [2] Salad with shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese (photo © Upland Restaurant | NYC).   There are standalone salads, like Greek salad, that incorporate cheese. French homes and restaurants have often served…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How Long To Boil Eggs & Lots Of Egg Recipes

May is National Egg Month (the first week in April is National Egg Salad Week). So how about a boiling-time chart from Good Eggs, below? Also check out our Egg Glossary, and see how many different types of eggs you’ve had. There are 10 options in chicken eggs alone! Before you get to the chart…
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TOP PICk OF THE WEEK: Sitka Salmon Shares Fish & Seafood Delivery

If you love fish, let us introduce you to Sitka Salmon Shares, a wild-caught Alaskan seafood delivery service. Similar to a CSA—Community Supported Agriculture—which supports local farmers by prepaying for a set schedule of fruit and vegetable deliveries, Sitka Salmon Shares is a CSF—Community Supported Fishery. The program supports small-boat family fishermen. You sign up…
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PRODUCT: Two Chicks Cocktails In Cans

We love a good cocktail: something special crafted with care. We typically have them at restaurants, not at home; and in our neck of the woods they’re $15, $18, even $20. Ha! We now have a great solution for home. Two Chicks makes sparking cocktails in cans—only 5% alcohol, so you have flavor without the…
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