Generally: broccoli, spinach, peas, French green beans, artichoke hearts, Brittany Blend, Foursome, Melange a Trois (red, yellow, and green bell peppers), corn (for chipotle cornbread!), and Hodge Podge all from TJs. Mostly for...

Daisy, please heed the warning, brisket needs to be cooked, chilled, sliced and re-heated. To serve as sandwiches, make the meat Fri, chill, slice and add some of your favorite BBQ sauce to the juices. This freezes very well....

Does anyone have any really good, tested recipes for using annatto? Either the seeds or an achiote oil or paste? Daisy Martinez uses it a lot for everything, but I wanted to know what Chowhounders have tried. And how would you...

My current favorite crudite plate involves buying one bell pepper in each color you can find — red, yellow, orange — I’ve even seen black and purple. Preferably buy peppers approximately the same size. Clean and...

For the past 15 years I have been ordering my birthday cakes at Glaser’s Bakery on the UES; yellow layer cake, rasberry and apricot filling, covered in wonderful chocolate buttercream with lots of flowers. I do not know...

Every once in a while, I find myself at Houston’s (the one on 3rd/53rd) for one reason or other, but when I do go, I make it a point to go on a Saturday, when they chili is their soup. It’s pretty good chili, though...

place on 48th between 5th/6th called something-Won (yellow awning, I think) that’s pretty good for roast meats over rice and such. I’ve had decent luck at the upstairs buffet at Cabana Carioca, the Brazilian place on...

I would do a tossed salad, piece of fish (salmon would be nice) and this vegetable cutlets. recipe I posted in another Passover thread: Mix chopped vegetables (I use spinach, sauteed minced yellow or red peppers, grated carrots,...

i love the look of papaya and so many people adore them, but i’ve always thought they had a rotten fruit or garbage-y taste to them and couldn’t understand the hype. i’ve only tried the large green papayas, and...

Our party of four couldn’t disagree with you more. I ordered a ricotta stuffed squash blossom cicchetti (italian small plates), the rectangle plate has three blossoms with a pesto sauce along the bottom and a tomato sauce...

and chips at Fulton and Nassau for a quick cheap lunch. The daisy mays bbq truck at broad and wall is a good cheap source of chilli and pulled pork sandwiches. There really arent too many options but you can always take the bus up...

a good descriptor for the other cake, which I think was called an Earl Grey cake. It’s got a yellow cake bottom with a layer of Earl Grey jam(?) and some kind of custard on top of that-I think banana. It’s surrounded...

. When you fluff it, you’ll end up with some nice yellow grains mixed in with white. As for the eggplant: many good suggestions here for baigan bharta (steamed or roasted eggplant which is then chopped/mashed and fried with...

funky off-taste), I am an enthusiastic convert. Here’s Daisy Martinez' recipe for achiote oil: http://daisycooks.com/pages/recipes_detail.cfm?ID=2 For arroz amarillo (yellow rice), simmer each cup of raw rice with two cups of...

are phenomenal. Soft, moist egg whites surrounding a gooey dark golden yolk. No anemic daisy yellow egg yolks here. The yolks were almost as orange as a tangerine, and had a richness about them that was almost as satisfying as...