Lucy's Blueberry Pudding Cake

With the city’s street corners gleaming resplendent with cheerful baskets of summer’s sweet purple bounty, nothing spells seasonal dessert like blueberry pudding cake.

Here’s an easy recipe that my sister, Lucy debuted at her recent Father’s Day back patio barbeque. She made it again at her July 4th barbeque and again at my request…a unanimous crowd-pleaser every time.

Lucy's Blueberry Pudding Cake

Lucy's Blueberry Pudding Cake


INGREDIENTS:

2 eggs
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 dash salt
1 cup of 2% milk
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 pints fresh blueberries
non-stick cooking spray

Pre-heat oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Coat 7 individual  cobbler-terrines with non-stick
cooking spray. Arrange terrines in a cooking pan large enough to hold them all.  Divide the berries among the coated terrines. In a bowl, whisk eggs, sugar, vanilla and salt.  Add milk, flour, baking powder and whisk them until smooth.  Achieve a soupy consistency.  Pour batter over berries.  Don’t worry if batter does not cover berries completely. Bake 20 minutes. Serve warm.

Lucy emphasizes the importance of serving this recipe warm, however I can attest to it being deliciously creamy and pudding-like straight out of the refrigerator. Try both and judge for yourself.


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Lucy’s Blueberry Pudding Cake

With the city’s street corners gleaming resplendent with cheerful baskets of summer’s sweet purple bounty, nothing spells seasonal dessert like blueberry pudding cake.

Here’s an easy recipe that my sister, Lucy debuted at her recent Father’s Day back patio barbeque. She made it again at her July 4th barbeque and again at my request…a unanimous crowd-pleaser every time.

Lucy's Blueberry Pudding Cake

Lucy's Blueberry Pudding Cake


INGREDIENTS:

2 eggs
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 dash salt
1 cup of 2% milk
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 pints fresh blueberries
non-stick cooking spray

Pre-heat oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Coat 7 individual  cobbler-terrines with non-stick
cooking spray. Arrange terrines in a cooking pan large enough to hold them all.  Divide the berries among the coated terrines. In a bowl, whisk eggs, sugar, vanilla and salt.  Add milk, flour, baking powder and whisk them until smooth.  Achieve a soupy consistency.  Pour batter over berries.  Don’t worry if batter does not cover berries completely. Bake 20 minutes. Serve warm.

Lucy emphasizes the importance of serving this recipe warm, however I can attest to it being deliciously creamy and pudding-like straight out of the refrigerator. Try both and judge for yourself.


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Flee the City; Savor the Region

‘Tis the season that most people are itching to take flight from their routines, regimented work days…nothing spells regeneration more than travel and holidays.

But if your travel this season is already behind you or you decided to forgo travel in favor of rehabilitating the finances this summer, then a local escape might be just the antidote.

View of the Hudson from Dobbs Ferry

View of the Hudson from Dobbs Ferry

So how local is a local escape, you might be wondering? As short as a 30 minute drive up the New York State Thruway or a 40 minute ride on the Metro North from Grand Central Station. [Read more...]

Fridays in Flatiron – Almond introduces Summer Fridays

Every Friday from now until Labor Day, from 1:30pm – 6pm, Almond will be hosting Summer Fridays:

almond

12 E. 22nd. St, Flatiron – click on image above for details

$21 gets you:

Three Piece Shrimp Cocktail,
Hamburger Deluxe,
Cucumber-Ginger Caipirinha
or
Blue Point Toasted Lager

Best enjoyed on their spacious outdoor patio strip….and if you

really want to get subversive….go there on Monday nights when D.J. Brenda Black will
be spinning in the pool room from 8-12.

Never been to Almond before?…The Gotham Palate has, click here for the review.

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Forgiving the gimmick – Bare Burger

“Forgiving the gimmick” – Review of Bare Burger

BY HOLLY HAGAN

Bareburger , 33-21 31st Ave.
Astoria, Queens
718-777-7011 –
bareburger.com

When an organic burger joint opened in my neighborhood, I was skeptical.  It seemed gimmicky, so I avoided BareBurger as long as I could.  Every time I walked by, it was hopping, so I shelved my suspicion and sampled my first all natural burger.

Big blue bacon mushroom onion burger with ostrich

Big blue bacon mushroom onion burger with ostrich

BareBurger sits on a corner of a quiet, leafy stretch of Astoria that is dotted with cafes, bistros and boutiques.  The floor-to-ceiling windows open onto the sidewalk, and we snagged the last petrified wood-topped table.

Our server came over and asked if this was our first time to BareBurger.  We nodded that, yes, it was.  She launched into an awkward speech.  I figured it would be about the burgers, but instead she told us how everything in the restaurant was recycled or organic.  The floors are made of bamboo, the tabletops are from trees destroyed in hurricanes, and the to-go containers are made from corn and sugar cane fibers.

“We don’t use any products or materials that hurt the environment,” she said.  “Like our menus are printed on recycled paper.”

I nodded encouragingly.  I was starving, and I wanted her to hand me an environmentally friendly menu.

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Bastille Day (and Night) Festivities – 2009

While your Fourth of July weekend revelling may have left you swearing off hotdogs and all of their swine-filled, the duration of which…well, some commitments are best discreetly dismissed, let the spirit of celebrating  independence and similarly toned tri-color moods (this time: blue, white and red)  stay with you for French Independence Day on July 14th.

Image from bastilledaynyc.com

Image from bastilledaynyc.com


What?:  Bastille Day Event on 60th St.

When?: Sunday, July 12, 2009; 12pm – 6pm

Where?: E. 60th. St. between Lexington Ave. and Fifth Ave.

Attractions?: Tastings of French cuisine and cuisines of French-speaking countries, French-themed market stalls, French music, the can-can, an open air picnic and more.

For more information click on the image above.

Celebrate la liberte’ with a serious twist of Parisian night club flair at  Flute:

From lavieenrose.eventbrite.com

From lavieenrose.eventbrite.com

What?: La Vie en Rose at Flute

When?: Tuesday, July 14, 2009; 8pm – 11pm

Where?: Flute Midtown, 205 W. 54th St. and Flute Gramercy, 40 E. 20th St.

Attractions?: Rose’ wine open bar ( featuring Domaine du Grollet Rose’ ’07),
Hors D’Oeuvres and Live D.J.

Cost?: $25 – all inclusive

Click on image above for further details and make your reservations tout de suite.



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Drop the apron and waltz to your feast this Independence Day

Looking to hang your grillmaster apron this Independence Day?
Go ahead, spare yourself the drudgery of roasting and the long, toilsome aftermath

and hop over to Tribeca and join a fabulous Viennese-style all-you-can eat barbeque
feast at
Kurt Gutenbrunner‘s Blaue Gans. Barbeque fare includes whole roasted pig, legendary
Schaller and Weber sausages, sandwiches, a Viennese dessert bar and more.

Image from TastingTable.com

Image from TastingTable.com

Cost: $35 per person

Hours: 2pm – 10pm

For reservations, please call 212-571-8880 or reserve online at OpenTable.com.

Location: 139 Duane Street, Tribeca, between Church and West Broadway.


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