From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Restaurant review: Bond St Lounge @ Townhouse, Miami Beach

Bond St Lounge 150 20th St Miami Beach, FL 33139 If you’re going to pick a time and a day to see a restaurant with a bar/loungey vibe in its best light, I’m guessing a random Monday at 7pm isn’t it. This also isn’t the kind of restaurant you want to go to when it’s [...]

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Weekly link smörgåsbord – March 19, 2010

Poppy Seed Cake with Blueberry GlazeI’m craving poppy seeds – perhaps some deep biological instinct, perhaps just because they normally come in a carbohydrate-laden delivery system. Cake or bread, that is. (Joy the Baker) Blackberry ClafoutisI’ve been meaning to do a clafoutis for ages and this is good inspiration. (Baking Bites) Roasted CauliflowerGreat combination of indian [...]

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Instant zen papaya and lime salad

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This is the way Mr. R&R ate papaya while travelling through Africa, and apparently it’s incredibly good for the stomach. It is certainly very calming to prepare – the beautiful sunset colours of the papaya and glistening ebony seeds, a bit of gentle slicing and squeezing. And it’s delicious to eat, the soothing banana and yoghurt [...]

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Pleasures: Cantal cheese, a better peanut butter, the pick of vanilla ice-creams and Jello.

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Cantal Week by week, I’m working my way through the local gourmet supermarket‘s extraordinary cheese counter. There are incredibly fresh, grassy goat cheeses, Italian staples like fresh ricotta and ultra-decadent burrata, a great selection of American artisan cheese (Oregonzola, chortle chortle) and this Cantal, my absolute favourite. I tried it for the first time in [...]

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Cheese and Marmite scones

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I’m still cooking in a practically unequipped temporary kitchen. It’s a bit better than the last one where the dishwasher wasn’t actually attached to anything useful but I’ve only got one mixing bowl and one enormous Pyrex thing that goes in the oven. When the baking urge took hold, there was only one real option: [...]

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Black olive gougeres; parsnip, celeriac and blue cheese bake

Two recipes from the Guardian’s resident recipe writers this week, both more apt for winter climates but (did I mention this?) it’s been cold in Miami and the only heating in this town is the kind that comes from rib-sticking calorie-loaded food within. Let me tell you, I’m still thawing out my feet from stand-up [...]

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Restaurant review: Doraku, Miami Beach

Doraku 1104 Lincoln Road, South Beach, Fl 33139 (305) 695 8383 www.dorakusushi.com I just can’t get enough of this little place on the Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. I love it so much that I have the pdf of the menu saved in Evernote, and I’m systematically working my way through it, meal by meal. [...]

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Pasta with zucchini, almonds and fresh herbs

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I don’t know about you, but I always have a couple of courgettes at the bottom of the fridge, hiding in plain sight like beached torpedoes. It’s my fault – as one of the few vegetables that arrive in Nassau, I’m bored of them even by the time I get to the checkout desk. But this [...]

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Miami meatballs with horseradish and dill

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The single most important commandment for domestic harmony in my house is this: Thou shalt not mess with the meatball. Polpette, and to a lesser degree polpettone, are as close as Mr. R&R gets to religion so it is a brave, some might say foolhardy, woman who disrupts the regular provision of these meatballs, traditionally [...]

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Spelt pasta with vine tomatoes, rocket and ricotta salata

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I tend to get all over-excited at our local Epicure – if you see a strange chick muttering happily to herself in front of the semolina flour and a jar of preserved lemons, or spending fifteen minutes in a near trance examining the goats cheese, it’s probably me. What can I say, gourmet supermarkets do something [...]

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