At Brooklyn Supper, we tend to focus on the basics, but sometimes, we like to go off the rails and make something that will be unfamiliar to most of you. Something strange and wonderful like the “hamburger.” You’ve undoubtedly heard attractive people talking about hamburgers at fancy parties and wondered what on Earth they could be, but you were too embarrassed to ask. Well, your secret shame is soon to be no more. Not only will you know what a hamburger is, you will be able to make one, too. You will be that attractive person at the fancy party. [Read more…]
farro with beet greens & sun-dried tomatoes
Beet greens on their own don’t look like something many people would buy, so it’s lucky for them that they usually come attached to beets (I’m going on the assumption here that the various parts of a plant aspire to be eaten). And if you decide to eat your beet greens rather than trash them, you’re in for a treat. Beet greens are never better than right now, in the late spring. [Read more…]
roasted black radish and grape quinoa
Sometimes seasonal food writing, here on the east coast especially, feels like a tour of the very homeliest food stuffs; and among the rutabagas, parsnips, jerusalem artichokes, celery roots, cabbages, and all the other misshapen, sun-starved vegetables that tide us over until the sun comes back for real, the black radish feels forgotten. [Read more…]
Lemon Parmesan Raw Kale Salad
A classic raw kale salad with lemon and Parmesan.
smaller things + baked eggs with brussels sprouts & mushrooms
The internet is full of big, amazing people. People whose cakes are frosted perfectly, people whose children don’t spill yogurt down the front of their shirt at lunch, people who stroll around the city and don’t even care that their suede shoes are getting ruined in the puddles because it’s not a big deal to buy another pair. We are not those people. There’s something in the air lately–real life, real blogging, real talk, real food. I like that. Especially because I don’t stand a chance of ever being one of those big, amazing types. Our life is messy, hopelessly real, and very far from perfect. [Read more…]