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Looking to save on food costs … but you still want to eat well? The City Cook can help with advice, recipes, tips for setting up a basic kitchen, and smart places to buy ingredients.
Podcasts
How To Equip A City Kitchen
Jennifer Baron, owner of A Cook's Companion in Brooklyn Heights, gives tips for the best equipment for an urban kitchen.
How To Work With Your Fish Monger
Our first in a new series of audio interviews. Listen to Dorian Mecir of Dorian's Seafood Market with tips and advice for buying fresh seafood.
What To Know When Buying Meat
Jacob Dickson of Dickson's Farmstand Meats gives us a primer on buying beef, lamb and pork. Articles
With a little planning, you can eat better and save money by making, not buying your weekday lunches.
Making Salads
All that chopping is worth the trouble. Consider making salads that feature a single ingredient and you may be surprised how satisfying they can be.
Cooking Skirt and Hanger Steaks
Skirt and hanger steaks are sometimes overlooked by city cooks because they're often put into the grilling category by food magazines and cookbooks. In fact they are inexpensive, have lots of flavor, and cook quickly on top of the stove. Manhattan's Chinatown is a great resource for many ingredients, especially fish. Here are some tips for shopping in this lively, often chaotic marketplace. Why you should never refrigerate tomatoes, and other helpful cooking tips. Not all frozen foods are hold-overs from the sixties. A few are even better than their fresh counterparts. Making your own pizza is easy, fun and delicious -- it even can be healthy -- and you don't need a coal-fired oven in your city kitchen. A pre-roasted whole chicken can be a city cook's secret weapon. Kitchen Essentials
The Essential Kitchen: Pots and Pans I
Retailers like Williams-Sonoma and Cooking.com offer us thousands of tools, pans and gadgets. But what does a cook really need to make most meals? Less than you'd think. There are dozens of different types of kitchen knives and the typical knife block has spaces for 8 or more. But what does a home cook really need to get the job done? To start with, buy fewer but buy better ones. Here are the essential three. A well-stocked city pantry makes dinner easy, giving options to fresh produce, fish or meat. Your refrigerator and freezer are part of a city cook's pantry. Chilled foods help in every day cooking. A cast iron grill pan cooks fish, meat and vegetables using little to no fat. Who needs an outdoor grill?
City Grilling: Broiling
Our broilers are often under-used yet they're a great way to get the same result as outdoor grilling. Here are some tips for using your stove's broiler. Recipes
Everyday Vinaigrette
This is a classic vinaigrette dressing that's perfect for most salads and easily adapted into more complex or personal versions. Wean yourself off of bottled salad dressing and you'll never go back.
Everyday Vegetables: Broccoli Rabe
Broccoli rabe is a vegetable that many only eat at Italian restaurants, never thinking that it could be simple and quick to cook at home. The word pantry may conjure up an image of a storage space bigger than your entire kitchen. Instead, think of a pantry as simply the habit of keeping your favorite non-refrigerated ingredients on hand. In this case: pasta, canned tuna, canned cannellini beans and olive oil.
Making and Using Teriyaki Sauce
This easy sauce can become a glaze to transform chicken, steak or seafood into a less ordinary meal.
Teriyaki Ginger Chicken
Easy oven-roasted chicken with an Asian-inspired marinade that becomes a glaze.
Weekday Dinner: Sautéed Panko-Crusted Turkey Cutlets
A simple pan-cooked turkey cutlet, with a crusty coating of panko, is a great weekday dinner. Add your favorite tomato sauce or vegetables or serve on a bed of lightly dressed arugula. A recipe from a city cook in New Orleans where folks know about the need for cool summer cooking. An easy weekday chicken dish that combines ordinary drumsticks with a rub of scallions, spice and heat.
Pan Seared Skirt Steak
Got a craving for steak but don't want to spend $24 a pound? Instead try pan searing a skirt steak. It has a rich beef flavor, is quick to cook, and it's inexpensive. A simple and classic yeast pizza dough that includes some whole wheat flour. Makes enough for two 10-inch pizzas, or use half the dough for home-made pretzels. An inexpensive cut of beef that's easy to cook and full of rich steak taste. Perfect for salads, sandwiches, fajitas, or as the centerpiece of a special dinner. Ground turkey can be a dull taste but there are ways to boost the appeal of these easy burgers.
Cook Once, Eat Twice: Chicken Stock and Chicken Salad
A New York city cook shares her recipe for turning a chicken into a summer chicken salad for dinner and a freezer full of organic chicken stock.
Baked Pasta With Shrimp, Tomatoes and Feta
An easy weekday dinner that's a variation on the classic Greek baked orzo. The word pantry may conjure up an image of a storage space bigger than your entire kitchen. Instead, think of a pantry as simply the habit of keeping your favorite non-refrigerated ingredients on hand. In this case: pasta, canned tuna, canned cannellini beans and olive oil. Merchants
The granddaddy of New York City supermarkets. Huge selection, great prices, and oh, those crowds.... A huge selection, impeccable quality, and great prices at this long-time seafood market located in the Ninth Avenue food neighborhood. Third generation full-service butcher in the 9th Avenue food neighborhood near 42nd Street. Great prices and excellent quality, especially for pork. Everything sold here is big. And cheap. Located in Manhattan's Ninth Avenue food neighborhood. |
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