February 2011
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ITP's Women Entrepreneur Festival
This past weekend the leaders of NYU’s ITP program hosted a festival bringing together experienced entrepreneurs with those who are ready to take the leap and those who have just recently lept!
Joanne Wilson (@thegothamgal), mentor, role model and dear friend to many – including me – was a chair of the festival. Last fall, over a breakfast to map out my “plan”, she told me all about the...
January 2011
10 posts
Today on Daily Candy
It’s always fun to wake up and see your own face in your email inbox. Know what else is fun? Shooting Daily Candy videos. The team is so great, shooting these videos for making tomato based soups was a breeze – even with a double ear infection!
The videos turned out fantastic (thanks to great editing) and the final images of the finished dishes are gorgeous. Maybe next time I can get them...
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Broccoli Soup with Lemon and Thyme
I’ve never been a fan of broccoli soup. Probably because it’s most often served with cheese. And as much as I LOVE cheese, it overpowers broccoli’s light, earthy flavor. But this weekend, while stuck on the sofa nursing that ridiculous ear infection all I could do was read through food magazines and organize and edit my recipes. Reading food magazines isn’t as mush fun when you can’t taste,...
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Mushroom Bulgur Soup
I know I’m getting sick when I start to crave cheeseburgers but all I really want to eat is soup. Yesterday, with a cheeseburger craving and a hankering for soup, I decided to play around with making a meatless soup that satisfied my need for meat and soothed my throat. I wanted to trick my brain into thinking it was getting that cheeseburger it desired by making an umami heavy and vitamin...
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Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Dumplings with Breakfast...
I’d been dreaming about creating a breakfast soup for my supper club dinner for quite some time. I wanted a broth that tasted like breakfast with little soup dumplings filled with cheese and sausage floating about topped with a poached quail egg. After many rounds of testing, it never turned out how I’d imagined. The dumplings were too chewy, the poached egg was too much, and quite frankly,...
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Cooking Risotto on Weekend Today in NY
This morning I had the pleasure of showing Erika Tarantal how to make mushroom risotto for one. Check out the segment and give the recipe a shot. If you want to make the recipe for more than one, just remember to use a ratio of 1 part rice to at least four parts broth.
Recipe, Notes, and Nutritional Information via sarahmcsimmons.com.
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Kitchari
It’s been my tradition to start my New Year’s resolutions at the Chinese New Year versus the first of the calendar year. Quite frankly, I find it hard enough to get myself through my every day routine after the holidays, much less start on a fresh, over-aggressive path to becoming a better me. So while everyone else has been planning blog posts and articles on “healthy living” and...
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Black Eyed Fritters
If you did New Years right, you had at least one plate of collards and black eyed peas. If you did New Years like I did, you had more than one plate – I needed good luck and prosperity like never before – and a lot of leftovers. I’m not a huge fan of black-eyed peas – certainly not enough of one to eat them on their own after New Year’s Day. I’m also not a huge fan of Hoppin John, the...