Javelin & Garlic Scape Pesto Dip

Javelin has sparked creativity in me like no other artist has yet to achieve, and I would like to attribute their poppy but funky, electo-infused harmonies to my innate tendencies to bring together unassuming but workable flavor combinations in food.



This pesto was originally purposed for pasta, but once I tried it, I knew it was a multi-purpose dip. Eat with crackers, spread for sandwiches or use to coat your pasta. Ingredients inclue: garlic scapes (about 8 full scapes), tahini, raw zucchini, and a splash of balsamic vinegar and water to great fluidity.

Purple Carrots, Pink Rutabaga, & the Fruit Bats

This is my first attempt to showcase multi-taste integration through this self-indulgent web platform. For me, cooking is a creative outlet, and in order for the creative juices to flow, I have to pair the food with the proper ambiance: music and lighting. These sensory escapades are a part of my daily life, and to archive them seems a natural outlet, so please enjoy more holistic food experiences to come...

I purchased these lovely purple carrots and pink rutabaga at the market, tossed with olive oil and roasted them with garlic, red onion. I served the roasted vegetables over raw kale with olive oil, some fresh white cheese and balsamic dressing.

To accompany this farmers market bounty, the Fruit Bats folksy, dreamy serenading seemed quite fitting. The earthiness to their sound paired well with the way the carrots crisped up and crunched with the raw kale.

I LOVE ELECTROFUNK

Sharing some of my current favorites.

Smoked Salmon Pasta Salad

My neighborhood Asian/Hispanic grocery store carries a wide selection of fish at really good prices, but for some reason cooking with fish has always intimidated me (a relic from days as a vegetarian).

Not so practical, I know, so I'm going to start with the cured stuff first and slowly re-integrate these proteins back into my home-cooked cuisine.


I made a smoked salmon pasta salad with a lemon-yogurt-dill sauce, cucumbers, avocado, red onion and capers. Note to self: yum, repeat.

I Have Been Granted Free Lobster Rolls for Life

So the story goes like this: My dear friend Mariana Cotlear (with whom I have shared many follies of foodie culture in NYC) invited me to visit her new friend who opened a food truck in the West Village that sells lobster rolls. The whole concept is to bring to the city a bona-fide, Montauk-based lobster experience, served up in the park straight from a shiny, refurbished Airstream RV, painted turquoise on the interior and operated by a bronzed beach goer named Stephane.

We were drinking white wine and eating lobster and brainstorming names for the food truck. After some time, throwing around words, and I offered The Lobster Tank. Stephane decided that was it.We proceeded to celebrate by consuming more of our surrounding delicacies.

What does it mean for me? Free lobster rolls, indefinitely. Check and check.

Oh So Close! HIGGS, where art though?

"Known as the Higgs boson, it explains why things in the universe have mass, and is a cornerstone of modern physics despite never being seen....The discovery of a new fundamental constituent of nature, as the Higgs would be, is a once-in-a-generation event and the imminent discovery of the Higgs at CERN, outside Geneva, has thrown physicists into a frenzy of rumor and speculation."

Today's NY Times.