From Faith: Even though it’s grilling weather, I will turn on the oven and broiler for this delicious dish, shrimp crisped with coconut and served alongside rice sparked up with lime zest and coconut water. I prefer the broiler because I’m able to control the heat better than I can with an outdoor grill. (No flare-ups […]
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Tantalizing Grilled Tandoori Chicken with Cooling Mint-Yogurt Sauce
The best Indian food involves hours of work and a million ingredients, almost always worth the time and effort. But two years ago we stumbled on a simpler version of Tandoori Chicken, and loved the result. (The tandoor is the wood-fired clay oven used by Indian cooks to make moist meat and beautiful breads.) The […]
The Best Stain Remover
In the bottom of Faith’s bag, you’ll find an emergency Clorox bleach pen, though using her sister Sally’s trick, she has soaked half her wardrobe in Dawn before washing, getting a pretty good result. But our colleagues at Cook’s Illustrated decided to put a variety of stain removers to the test. We’ll spare you all […]
Martini Competition Rocks!
Visit Long Island’s North Fork
From Faith: It’s remarkably easy to drive onto the ferry in Bridgeport or New London, for a day trip to The North Fork of Long Island, which reminds me of unspoiled Sonoma in the old days. The Cross Sound ferry ride is 90 minutes of pure pleasure, to start, and then it’s wine country, old beach […]
5th Faith Middleton WNPR Martini Competition Winners!
What a fabulous sold-out scene it was at our 5th Annual Martini Competition to benefit WNPR… the crowd tasting, dining, and voting; the DJ rocking the house at Simsbury’s Riverview. A roar went up as we announced the following winners: Gold Winner Lime in the Coconut, from Infinity Hall Silver Winner Slim Shady, from Double Tree by […]
