I couldn't wait at all so I made the potatoes tonight. Soooo delicious!!! Also thank you so much for the NYC links & recs as we are headed there in a few weeks.
Those fried potatoes!! And itineraries! I was completely Queens illiterate until I married a man who owned an apartment in Queens/LIC/Astoria and now I love helping people find their way to the (many!) gems. I'll try to pop in and leave in the comments when I come up for air.
Yum! For roast potatoes with a English Sunday roast, we use a similar prep method - par boil the potatoes, drain and let them dry a bit, and then for extra deliciousness, put the lid on the pan and shake them around a bit so that they get bashed up, then when they roast the edges get extra crispy.
I wonder if that would also work for frying them? I'm inspired to find out!
Great summer recipes! One question from your post: "zucchini haters be damned. (Sorry, entire family.) "
So in my family... if I make something they don't like they don't complain, but they just don't eat it and fill up on bread or other sides. So.. your family will eat the zucchini and not be happy?
I would add a stop at Economy Candy to the Brooklyn Bridge/Chinatown itinerary. We make it a stop on every trip and walk out with way too much nostalgic or weird candy.
This is SO off topic…but thank you again for the prompt to read Between Two Kingdoms many months ago. I followed Suleika’s journey in real time way back in 2012 (and worked in a cancer organization that was marginally connected to her experience ). So to read her full story with that hindsight is really compelling. It’s a fantastic and heartbreaking book so far. Props to the editor 😊
Thank you Jenny for the potato recipe! I feel rather foolish sharing this, but when I have cooked potatoes in a skillet, I've always struggled! This forces me to use the oven in the hot summer more than I'd like. But now, I've learned from you to pre boil them! A critical step I had missed. I'm going to try it, and hopefully save the oven for fall. Thank you!
The info in this post alone is worth the monthly subscription! Can't wait to do the salad class! Also, I saw the zucchini pasta recipe on instagram too and can't wait to try it even though I'm not a big fan of zucchini.
I needed these itinerary options on my last trip to NYC in April! I took my 14 yo and I completely overthought it, and we both ended up frustrated and disappointed. I tried to cover off too much and over thought what would be "cool" to her: I'd reserved at the Beetle House restaurant (I thought a Tim Burton themed dinner would be neat!) and were "meh" about it, as well as wandering Little Italy in a hangry state and ended up eating too expensive and not-great pasta in a panic. Luckily I try to get there with her at least 1x a year for a couple of nights so we'll make it up.
Just signed up for Amanda's class! It's so fun that it's instant. Her Korean fried broccoli is one of my favorite restaurant dishes ever.
I couldn't wait at all so I made the potatoes tonight. Soooo delicious!!! Also thank you so much for the NYC links & recs as we are headed there in a few weeks.
Those fried potatoes!! And itineraries! I was completely Queens illiterate until I married a man who owned an apartment in Queens/LIC/Astoria and now I love helping people find their way to the (many!) gems. I'll try to pop in and leave in the comments when I come up for air.
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Yum! For roast potatoes with a English Sunday roast, we use a similar prep method - par boil the potatoes, drain and let them dry a bit, and then for extra deliciousness, put the lid on the pan and shake them around a bit so that they get bashed up, then when they roast the edges get extra crispy.
I wonder if that would also work for frying them? I'm inspired to find out!
Great summer recipes! One question from your post: "zucchini haters be damned. (Sorry, entire family.) "
So in my family... if I make something they don't like they don't complain, but they just don't eat it and fill up on bread or other sides. So.. your family will eat the zucchini and not be happy?
Coolio!
I love these itineraries! What a wonderful idea.
I would add a stop at Economy Candy to the Brooklyn Bridge/Chinatown itinerary. We make it a stop on every trip and walk out with way too much nostalgic or weird candy.
This is SO off topic…but thank you again for the prompt to read Between Two Kingdoms many months ago. I followed Suleika’s journey in real time way back in 2012 (and worked in a cancer organization that was marginally connected to her experience ). So to read her full story with that hindsight is really compelling. It’s a fantastic and heartbreaking book so far. Props to the editor 😊
ps to my LIC post: You can take the Ferry from midtown to Gantry Park for the price of a subway ride. The ride is short, but the views are great.
Here's one for LIC: Gantry State Park, Moma PS 1, and Adda (https://www.addanyc.com).
Thank you Jenny for the potato recipe! I feel rather foolish sharing this, but when I have cooked potatoes in a skillet, I've always struggled! This forces me to use the oven in the hot summer more than I'd like. But now, I've learned from you to pre boil them! A critical step I had missed. I'm going to try it, and hopefully save the oven for fall. Thank you!
The info in this post alone is worth the monthly subscription! Can't wait to do the salad class! Also, I saw the zucchini pasta recipe on instagram too and can't wait to try it even though I'm not a big fan of zucchini.
I needed these itinerary options on my last trip to NYC in April! I took my 14 yo and I completely overthought it, and we both ended up frustrated and disappointed. I tried to cover off too much and over thought what would be "cool" to her: I'd reserved at the Beetle House restaurant (I thought a Tim Burton themed dinner would be neat!) and were "meh" about it, as well as wandering Little Italy in a hangry state and ended up eating too expensive and not-great pasta in a panic. Luckily I try to get there with her at least 1x a year for a couple of nights so we'll make it up.