If the upcoming Super Bowl game immediately brings chili to mind, and you’re in the mood to try something a little different, this is a great recipe. Even if you’re nervous about experimenting, as I was the first time I made it, what better occasion to try something new? I actually made it for...
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Andrew and Andrea Santamaria are Verona residents and the owners of the new Liberty Tax Service franchise in Montclair. They are launching a food drive–dubbed “Soup or Bowl”– to benefit the Human Needs Food Pantry, and it could also benefit you. From now through February 4, if you bring in five or more non-perishable...
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I can honestly say that this is the first time I’ve ever cooked with fennel. I’ve used the seed before, but never the bulb. Fennel looks kind of like celery with a bigger bottom and fronds at the top that look like dill. It has a black licorice-type smell, which probably explains why I...
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If scotch or seafood are your favorites, pay attention. Verona-based Chef Floyd Cardoz is opening a new restaurant in lower Manhattan and it has more than 100 varieties of scotch on hand to sample by the dram. North End Grill, which is located at 104 North End Avenue at Murray Street, features wood-burning grills...
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If you have ever had a Mozzarepa at a New York City street fair, you are going to want to try this recipe. Not sure what a Mozzarepa is? If you’re a fan of corn and cheese, which I am, then this wonderful “street food” is for you. Picture a large corn bread pancake...
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Once the weather gets cold, I’m a soup girl, but there are two challenges that come with one of my favorite types of meals. My first challenge is creating a variety of soups– I get bored. I easily have five or six cookbooks for just soups and a plethora of other cookbooks that have...
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At the end of this past summer, I was fortunate enough to receive a food gift: frying peppers from my brother-in-law’s garden. I don’t know how he does it, but all of his vegetables grow well and are delicious. I figured I had two choices with the peppers, saute them with onions and serve with sausage, or...
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Linette Mathewson, MyVeronaNJ.com’s ad salesperson, says she is a scratch baker “only when necessary”. We guess she’s not the only one in Verona, where work, school and sports schedules don’t often leave time for cooking, let alone baking. So it is perhaps no surprise that when MyVeronaNJ.com put out a call for holiday cookie...
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When MyVeronaNJ.com put out the call for holiday cookie recipes, the first one we got was from Barbara Misrendino. It pointed us to a recipe for “Gingerbread Snowflakes” that had appeared in a 2002 issue of the (alas) now defunct Gourmet magazine. “These are soft gingerbread cookies that can be decorated either with decorating...
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Baking with kids at Christmas time can be fun, daunting, adorable, and messy. I love baking with my kids, but let’s face it, if I’m not prepared for the mess and I am not feeling patient, it can be disasterous. One thing that makes it a little easier is having a kid friendly recipe....
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