This Week on the Food Schmooze

Here’s what’s on our menu… winter gazpacho… a ginger-carrot-cinnamon cocktail with spiced rum… doctored canned Progresso clam sauce… the best roasted mushrooms… and so much more on this week’s fresh edition of The Food Schmooze®!

Dreamy, Warm Winter Gazpacho

From Alex Province: Fresh vine ripened tomatoes are ages away and forget about finding anything resembling a fresh cucumber, but worry not. Here is a comforting warm and delicious twist on an old summer favorite utilizing ingredients you can easily find at your grocery store in the middle of winter. Inspired by my Spanish grandfather, […]

How to Doctor Canned Clam Sauce to Make Luscious Linguini

From Chris Prosperi: Most of us grew up having Progresso canned clam sauce on spaghetti; we dumped a can into a saucepan, heated it and mixed in the linguini. That was it, and we ate it happily. What would it taste like if we made it today? What does time do to memory? We decided to […]

Cocktail: Ginger-Carrot-Cinnamon & Spiced Rum

From Faith: All we did was ask our resident cocktail guy Anthony DeSerio to focus on fresh fruits and vegetables as mixers for drinks, and he started blazing a delicious trail for us all. We see chefs and bartenders collaborating more and more, the restaurant kitchen providing fresh veggie or fruit juices, though some bartenders are […]

Cocktail: Desperation Sour Apple Palmer

From Faith: What does a bartender do in a huge snowstorm with no ingredients for a cocktail? If that bartender is our contributor Anthony DeSerio, he starts scrounging and brainstorming. Now he’s inspiring us, too. Anthony was house-sitting at his sister’s when the storm hit and wouldn’t quit. After running around shoveling and buttoning up the […]

Best Roasted Mushrooms with Parmesan & Pine Nuts

This is genius, so hats off to Adam Ried and his associates at Cooks Illustrated, where somebody suggested something absurdly clever — soaking mushrooms in a little salty water for a few minutes to make them especially moist after roasting. We don’t know who wanted to pair the roasted mushrooms with parmesan and pine nuts, […]

A Great Chardonnay for Popcorn, or for Weekend Sipping

Our guess is you’ve burned with desire to know which wine pairs wonderfully with popcorn. It comes up all the time. You’ll be looking for furniture or cookware, and you’ll overhear, “Red or white for popcorn?” The wine geek responds by saying, depends on the spices on the popcorn. But our Alex Province, only part […]

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