Section: Food
Juniors Sell Business Discount Card
The Junior Women’s Club of Verona has a new fundraiser that could save you some money in Verona. The club is selling a discount card, a card the size of a credit card that fits into your wallet and holds discounts to 22 local businesses. The cardholder shows his/her card and the featured businesses will [...]
Hobcaw Introduces Online Ordering
For restaurants in New York City, online ordering is a given. Here in Verona, not so much. If fact not at all until last week, when Hobcaw Cafe introduced online ordering. You can set up an order for immediate consumption or for later in the day, and as much as two weeks in advance. Pick [...]
Results Of The Restaurant Survey
Attention Indian restauranteurs: Verona likes Indian food. That was just one of the surprising results of the MyVeronaNJ food survey. Last month, MyVeronaNJ launched “Reinventing Verona” , a series of surveys designed to get at how we want to live in Verona now. First up, our dining habits. We knew, anecdotally, that Veronans eat a [...]
Floyd Cardoz’ Chicken Frankies
If this keeps up, we are going to have to get Floyd Cardoz a food truck in Verona. Last Wednesday night, Cardoz found himself among the judges’ favorites on Top Chef Masters. The Week 5 challenge was all about fast food, and Cardoz dished out something called a Chicken Frankie. That sounds like something that [...]
Crock It! Applesauce
As I was emailing and talking with Scott Savokinas for his Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe, he mentioned to me that he had an overnight slow cooker applesauce recipe which he was willing to share. To appreciate this, one would have to understand what happens with applesauce in my house. One, it is always home [...]
Cardoz Wins A Round On ‘Top Chef’
Floyd Cardoz, the New York City chef who calls Verona home, finally won one last night on “Top Chef Masters.” The chefs had to take food that has been the downfall of contestants on “The Biggest Loser” and whittle down its calorie count. Cardoz drew a request for a meatball sub from a “Biggest Loser” [...]
Jess Polledri, Urban Farmer
If you knew Jessica Polledri back in the day, you probably wouldn’t have predicted she’d be growing food for a living. “I was never good at science,” she says, “and I killed my house plants in college. My college roommate still doesn’t believe that a lot of my work since graduation has involved keeping plants [...]
Ariane Duarte’s Spring Chicken
With all the big cooking going on this week, we figured you might want a break with something simple. Ariane Duarte’s recipe for Roast Chicken with Spring Vegetables seems to fit the bill. In the recipe, Duarte makes a pitch for buying vegetables from local farmers, which might not be a surprise since CulinAriane, the [...]
Let Them Make You Breakfast
The Verona Fire Department is holding a pancake breakfast on Sunday May 1, at Firehouse #2. That’s the one across from Everett Field at 209 Bloomfield Avenue. The firefighters will be cooking from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and they will be cooking a lot: Breakfast includes pancakes, Taylor ham, bacon, eggs, sausage, OJ and coffee. [...]
Crock It! Scalloped Potatoes
It happens to me almost every holiday. I plan a delicious meal, if I may say so myself, and then realize that I have overbooked my oven. Even with what I would call an oven and a half (someday I’ll have a double oven) I have to plan baking dish sizes appropriately so I can work out [...]