Cardie Mortimer has been a television executive by day and an executive chef in every other possible moment. Earlier this summer, the Verona resident partnered with several other foodies to create Chef’s Lab, a cooking school and kitchen store in Montclair. On Saturday, September 18, Mortimer will be teaching a class on steakhouse cooking...
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One shopping trip, one prep session, three meals. That’s the premise of a recent post by Ariane Duarte on her DinnerTool blog. The video below, from Duarte’s appearance on WNBC, explains it all, and even walks you through some of the techniques, which are very easy. The post with all the chicken and corn...
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More often than not, I’ll make homemade applesauce just for one meal–let’s say to go with a roast pork. In the late summer and early fall when apples are abundant, it’s a great time to experiment with mixing apple varieties and flavors in the world of applesauce. Last year, I had so many apples...
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If you haven’t yet made plans to attend the Oktoberfest at Our Lady of the Lake Saturday, October 16, the baskets and silent auction items may sway your decision. Baskets like a reserved table for 4 with the chef of CulinAriane in Montclair, Ariane Duarte, who is an OLL School alumnae and a former...
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For two or three months of every year, we get to gorge on fresh New Jersey tomatoes. The rest of the time, we are at the mercy of what’s in the grocery stores. However, for cooking through the winter I like to use my own fresh tomatoes I’ve preserved earlier in the year. Tomatoes...
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A few days ago I got the phone call I’ve been waiting for. The tomatoes were in! Not the beefsteaks that New Jersey is famous for, but plum tomatoes. Growing up, my parents would spend hours every Labor Day weekend canning tomatoes and bread and butter pickles. I don’t remember watching them do this,...
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We can walk into Foodtown, ShopRite, Kings or Whole Foods at any time of the year and find canned tomatoes. We can buy jams and jellies, applesauce and pickles. Or we can just go down to our basements and pull something infinitely better off the shelves. That’s right, folks, we’re talking home canning. Your...
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Nothing says New Jersey like tomatoes and if you want to try all of the dozens of varieties of tomatoes that grow in New Jersey, you need to take a day trip on Wednesday, September 1. That is the date of the 2010 Great Tomato Tasting at Rutgers University’s Snyder Research and Extension Farm...
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Blame it on the banana ice cream. Banana is Jack Fitzpatrick’s favorite flavor at Towne Scoop, according to his brother, Mike, who prefers mint chocolate chip. So when Jack saw Fred Goode’s photo of a neon sign on Monday morning, something clicked. “Jack recognized it as probably being Towne Scoop from the curtains and...
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We may not be getting a Starbucks anytime soon, but there are plenty of places in Verona to grab a cup of coffee, to sip or to go. Town Council member Jay Sniatkowski has his favorites; we’re sure you have yours. Yes, we know these places don’t have Starbucks’ comfy seating, but some do...
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