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The City Cook can help with advice, recipes, tips for setting up a basic kitchen, and smart places to buy ingredients.
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.
Bring Your Lunch to Work
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.
Shopping in Chinatown: Fish
Manhattan's Chinatown is a great resource for many ingredients, especially fish. Here are some tips for shopping in this lively, often chaotic marketplace.
Frozen in the Summertime
Not all frozen foods are hold-overs from the sixties. A few are even better than their fresh counterparts.
A City Slice, Cooked At Home
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.
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.
The Essential Kitchen Tools: Knives Part I - The Basics
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.
Cast Iron Grill Pans
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.
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.
Pantry Dinner: Pasta With Tuna and Cannellini Beans
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.
Rotisserie Chicken Salad
A recipe from a city cook in New Orleans where folks know about the need for cool summer cooking.
Broiled Chicken Drumsticks
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.
Making City Pizza
Tips on technique, hardware and ingredients for making pizza at home.
Pizza Dough
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.
London Broil
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.
Turkey Burgers
Ground turkey can be a dull taste but there are ways to boost the appeal of these easy burgers.
Pantry Dinner: Pasta With Tuna and Cannellini Beans
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.
Fairway
The granddaddy of New York City supermarkets. Huge selection, great prices, and oh, those crowds....
Sea Breeze Fish Market
A huge selection, impeccable quality, and great prices at this long-time seafood market located in the Ninth Avenue food neighborhood.
Esposito's Meat Market
Third generation full-service butcher in the 9th Avenue food neighborhood near 42nd Street. Great prices and excellent quality, especially for pork.
Big Apple Meat Market
Everything sold here is big. And cheap. Located in Manhattan's Ninth Avenue food neighborhood.
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