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December 16, 2015

Prosciutto Baked Brie and Roasted Figs

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We see you puffed pastry and raise you one!

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TAGS: prop styling: Christina Lane, figs, camembert cheese, appetizers, holidays, thanksgivingcontender, roast figs, prosciutto


December 14, 2015

Sweet Paul Interviews KR In Holiday Issue

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We are having a serious love affair with Sweet Paul Magazine.  Shout out to all the talented people there who live and breath their jobs.  A little insite into our creative process and a few posts highlighted over the past year.  You can find the newest issue of Sweet Paul Holiday Issue here!

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TAGS: kitchen-repertoire.com, sweet paul magazine, holiday issue, recipe hightlights, holiday 2015


December 12, 2015

Persimmon Granita with Pomegranate Seeds

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Persimmon are high maintenance.  They take days to ripen and seconds to rot.  But - if you catch them just right - the gorgeous orange pulp is sweet and delicious.  

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TAGS: prop styling: Christina Lane, persimmon, granita, pomegranates, dessert, holidays, thanksgivingcontender


December 4, 2015

Holiday Cheer Aperol Spritz

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Because it is a spritz - two is really one.  Or at least that's our story and we're sticking to it.

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TAGS: holidays, drinks, cocktail recipe, thanksgivingcontender, Aperol, Prosecco


December 1, 2015

KR in the Fall issue of Sweet Paul Magazine

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Just a sample of our little story that you can find in the Fall Issue of Sweet Paul Magazine.  We love this story we produced for them and think you will too.  Some of my favorite recipes are to be found here.

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TAGS: kitchen-repertoire.com, sweet paul magazine, fall meals, produced by kitchen-repertoire.com, upstate NY, tent dinner


December 1, 2015

Soft Polenta with Toasted Pine Nuts and Fried Sage

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Polenta - to my mind - suffers from having been made to be too many things.  Keep it simple - pure soft and creamy - and not so much a vehicle for something else but perfection on its own. 

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TAGS: prop styling: Christina Lane, polenta, cornmeal, sage, garlic chips, pine nuts, winter meals


November 26, 2015

Gingerbread Shortcake with Caramelized Pears

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Happy Thanksgiving. Something to be thankful for in lieu of pie and as  breakfast tomorrow when you don't feel like cooking EVER again -could just get you over the hump.

 

Gingerbread Shortcake with Caramelized Pear

Gingerbread Shortcakes

  • 2 cups all purpose flour (whole wheat works too)
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • Pinch cloves
  • Several gratings fresh nutmeg
  • 1/3 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
  • 6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
  • 1 vanilla bean, scraped
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1/4 candied ginger, cut into long slivers

Combine flour, baking powder, salt, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and sugar in a mixing bowl.  Stir well.  Cut in butter and quickly work dough to create a coarse crumb.  Combine vanilla bean seeds and heavy cream and quickly mix into dough.  Turn out onto a parchment lines baking sheet and gently pat into a square - roughly 8 x 8.  Refrigerate about 1 hour.  Heat oven to 375.  Cut dough into 8 equal squares and reconfigure on baking sheet so there is some breathing space between. Pat top of each square with a little cold water and sprinkle with sugar.  Top with a few slivers candied ginger.  Bake until golden, about 30 minutes.  Remove from oven and let cool slightly before serving. Best warm. 

Caramelized Pear

  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 6 tablespoons sugar
  • 2 pounds firm but ripe pears, thinly sliced
  • 2 tablespoons brandy
  • 1 cup heavy cream, whipped to soft peak, for serving

Melt butter in a heavy bottomed skillet over low heat.  Add sugar, sprinkling so to create a more or less even layer.  Let stand a few minutes while sugar melts into butter and softens.  Increase heat slightly.  Add sliced pears and cook, shaking pan until sugar melts completely and starts to caramelized - shake pan to prevent scorching.  Add brandy and let bubble up.  Reduce heat and let simmer just long enough that pears soften, release some juices and are drenched in golden caramel.  Sandwich pears between halved Ginger Bread Shortcakes and serve with whipped cream. 

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TAGS: ginger, scones, pears, baking, holiday, thanksgivingcontender, prop styling: Christina Lane


November 24, 2015

Roast Honey Nut Squash with Rosemary and Gruyere

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These squash are as sweet as they are cute and roast up to make a great Thanksgiving side complete with a makeshift gravy boat/relish bowl.  

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November 20, 2015

Pumpkin Breakfast Bread

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Pumpkin by day

Pumpkin by night

Big thanksgiving kiss to friends and family near and far. Here's yet another thing to be thankful for on Thanksgiving morning!

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November 17, 2015

Roasted Romanesco with Pine Nut, Anchovy and Date Dressing

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O Romanesco Romanesco 

wherefore art thou

Romanesco?

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TAGS: romanesco, roasting, pine nuts, anchovy dressing, dates


November 12, 2015

Chicken Soup with Kale and Fennel

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Stocking the fridge for a friend and her beautiful new baby boy! Heavy on the fennel seeds to keep colic at bay.  Skipped the garlic as can go straight to milk supply. Feel free to add if not feeding a new mom. 

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November 3, 2015

Egg and Potatoes with Sautéed Chanterelle

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Dinner this week is all about speed and ease.  Fear my poor husband is slightly underwhelmed (over tired and hungry).  Upping the ante with a bagful of wild mushrooms. 

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TAGS: chanterelles, purple potatoes, eggs, boiled eggs, watercress, light meals


October 30, 2015

Zataar Spiced Roast Pumpkin Seeds

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Happy Halloween.  Here is to something stuck in your teeth!

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TAGS: zataar spice, roast pumpkin seeds, happy Halloween, seeds, roasting, snacks


October 24, 2015

Orchard Sink Fruit Sauce

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Hard to control oneself when market is brimming with end of season peaches and first of season apples.  This catch all sauce makes sure that nothing goes to waste - recipe simply a guide line - use what you have on hand.  Spoon sauce over breakfast porridge or plain yogurt.  Or add to a simple nut milk based smoothie.  

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October 19, 2015

Lemon Verbena Pound Cake

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We can always count on Lemon Verbena to outlive most summer fruits and vegetables.  It is such a shame to let any of this hardy fragrant herb go to waste.  So after drying a few bunches for fancy flavorful tea it is time to get creative. Welcome to our Verbena binge. 

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TAGS: baking, cake, pound cake, lemon verbena, herbal infusion


October 10, 2015

Dal With Roast Okra And Brown Rice

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Simple Dal with Roast Okra

Just enough kick to warm the Blood and move the Qi. 

For Dal

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  • 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
  • 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
  • 1 teaspoon good quality garam marsala - we bought ours at Dual Specialty Shop - NYC
  • 1 large ripe tomato, diced
  • Sea salt
  • 2 cups red lentils, rinsed until water runs clear
  • 6 curry leaves
  • 1 inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and grated
  • Brown rice, simmer with a cinnamon stick, for serving
  • Chutneys of choice, for serving

Warm a large saucepan over medium flame.  Add olive oil and heat to just below shimmering.  Reduce flame.  Add onions and garlic and cook until translucent, just a minute or two.  Stir in cumin, mustard, fennel and garam marsala and cook, stirring constantly until spice is toasted, just a minute.  Add tomatoes and cook just until tomatoes start to breakdown.  Season with a hefty pinch sea salt.  Add rinsed lentils and 8 cups cold water.  Stir in curry leaves and another pinch salt.  Bring liquid to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until lentils completely break apart and turn to mush, about 40 minutes.  Stir in fresh ginger about 20 minutes into cooking time and then continue to let simmer.  Adjust seasoning with salt as needed.  

For Okra

  • 1 pound fresh okra
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt, plus more to taste
  • 1/4 ground black pepper, plus more to taste
  • 1 scant teaspoon garam masala

Heat oven to 425.  Set a baking sheet in the oven while it preheats.  Combine okra, olive oil, salt, pepper and garam masala in a large bowl and toss well to coat.  Transfer seasoned okra to hot baking sheet - it should sizzle on contact.  Place in oven and roast, shaking once or twice, until okra is both crisp and tender, about 15 minutes.  Sprinkle with a bit more salt and serve.  

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October 6, 2015

Tomato Farcie

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Tomato Farcie

This recipe is courtesy of our dear friend Jill Anton.  She was lucky enough to spend 6 months in France and get the all things culinary inside scoop. 

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for drizzling
  • 1 onion, minced
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • Sea salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • 6 large end of season tomatoes 
  • 1/2 pound ground pork
  • 1/2 pound ground beef
  • 1/2 pound sausage meat
  • 1 cup chopped mixed fresh herbs such as parsley, tarragon and chives
  • Cooked rice, for serving 

Heat oven to 400.  Warm a medium skillet over a low flame.  Add olive oil.  Heat a moment or two.  Add onions and garlic and cook until soft and translucent, a few minutes.  Season with a healthy pinch salt and pepper.  Remove from heat. Halve tomatoes horizontally and scoop out flesh from both halves.  Roughly chop flesh and set in a bowl - along with any juices you can collect.  Place bottoms halves of tomatoes in a shallow non-reactive baking dish - tomatoes should be snug but not too tight.  Season with salt and pepper. 

Combine meats in a small bowl - mixing together well with fingers or a fork.  Add cooked onions and herbs and season well with more salt and pepper.  Mix to combine.  Divide meat into 6 portions and gently shape into a patty.  Place patty into each tomato base.  Cover meat with tomato tops.  Season chopped tomato flesh with salt and pepper and use to fill holes between tomatoes.  Drizzle whole thing with olive oil and transfer to oven.  Bake until meat is cooked through and the tomatoes are very soft but still holding their shape, about 1 hour.  The tomatoes will blister and the whole thing look a little wonky but promise - absolutely delicious.  Serve with rice - and a glass of French wine. 

 

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October 4, 2015

Clams with Roast Tomatoes and Soupy Rice

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Clams with Roast Tomatoes and Soupy Rice

  • cherry tomatoes, cut in half
  • 4 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for final drizzle
  • Sea salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • Several sprigs fresh thyme
  • 2 dozen little neck clams, scrubbed
  • 1/2 cup dry white wine
  • 3 ears corn, kernels removed =  2 cups fresh corn, cobs reserved
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for final drizzle
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced to paste
  • 3 shallots, finely chopped, heaping 1/4 cup
  • Sea salt and freshly ground pepper 
  • 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh end of summer herbs - have experiments with a mix lemon verbena and lemon thyme and marjoram - all nice - plus more for garnish
  • 1 smallish bulb fennel, finely chopped - about 2 cups
  • 1 cup arborio rice

Heat oven to 350.  Line a baking sheet with parchment.  Arrange tomatoes, cut side up, on baking sheet and season with a generous amount of salt and pepper. Sprinkle with fresh thyme leaves.  Set in oven and roast soft and bubbling, about 30 minutes.  Remove from oven. 

Meanwhile set a large pot over a medium flame.  Add clams, 1/4 cup wine and 3 cups cold water.  Bring to a boil, cover and simmer gently until clams open, about 8 minutes.  Discard any clams that fail to open.  Use a slotted spoon to remove cooked clams from cooking liquid.  Transfer to a large bowl,  cover with a damp clothe and refrigerate until needed.  Add 2 cups cold water to cooking liquid, reserved corn cobs and bay leaves.   Return to boil, reduce heat and simmer about 30 minutes, until liquid is very flavorful.  Remove from heat and discard corn cobs and bay leaves.  

Set a heavy bottomed saucepan with greater surface area than height over a medium low flame.  Let stand a minute or two to heat.  Melt 2 tablespoons butter and olive oil together in pot until sizzling.  Add garlic, shallots and 1 tablespoon chopped fresh herbs and cook, stirring, until soft and translucent, about 3 minutes.  Season with a healthy pinch of sea salt and a few cracks of black pepper.   Add corn kernels and fennel and cook until soft and just subtly caramelized, about 8 minutes.  Season once again.  Stir in rice.   Stir to coat rice grains in oil and toast just ever so gently.  Deglaze pot with remaining 1/4 cup wine.  Return clam cooking liquid to the heat and bring to a simmer.  Slowly add broth, one ladle full at a time, stirring more or less constantly between each addition and waiting until the liquid has been fully absorbed before adding more.  This whole process should take about 20 minutes.  Check rice for doneness and when just shy of al dente add remaining broth and clams.  Cook until clams are hot and rice is perfect and still soupy.  If you have run out of broth - augment with freshly boiled water.  Stir in remaining chopped herbs and two tablespoons butter.  Adjust seasoning with more salt and pepper.  Serve  immediately in nice shallow pasta bowls.  Spoon tomatoes over each portion and drizzle with a generous amount of olive oil. 

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TAGS: clams, corn, ricedish, fallmeals, frances palmer bowl


October 4, 2015

Savory Corn Pudding

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On a mission to eat corn in whatever form possible for as long as it lasts.  This dish lends itself to some supper easy highly satisfying entertaining.  We served it with tomatoes (working the same theory as stated above) but it would be fabulous dressed up with chopped avocado, sour cream and roasted butternut squash.  Promise this will become a family favorite fast.  Oh - and perfect for one of those back to school pot-lucks. 

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TAGS: egg dish, easy meals, eggs, corn, corn tortillas, mexican food, breakfast, lunch, dinner


September 20, 2015

Concord Grape and Pear Focaccia

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We have a small vineyard of these grapes upstate.  I'm always looking for ways to use them besides making grape jelly- here's an earthy and easy alternative.

We have a small vineyard of these grapes upstate.  I'm always looking for ways to use them besides making grape jelly- here's an earthy and easy alternative.

Concord Grape and Pear Focaccia

  • 1 3/4 cups warm water
  • 1 package active dry yeast
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 5 cups flour, plus more for kneading
  • 1 tablespoon sea salt, plus more for topping
  • 1 cup olive oil
  • 1 bunch concord grapes, split and seeded
  • 3 ripe but firm pears, cored and thinly sliced
  • 1/4 cup pine nuts
  • several sprigs fresh oregano

Combine water, yeast and honey in a small bowl.  Let stand in a warmish place until yeast is bubbling and full of life, about 15 minutes.

In the bowl of a mixer fitted with dough hook, combine flour, salt, 1/2 cup olive oil and the yeast mixture.  Mix on low speed just until dough comes together.  Increase speed to medium and work dough until smooth and soft, about 5 minutes.  If dough remains wet or tacky sprinkle in a bit more flour.  

Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface and knead by hand a few turns.  Clean out mixing bowl and wipe inside with a generous splash of olive oil.  Return dough to bowl, cover with plastic wrap and a damp clean clothe and let stand until dough has doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.

Coat a baking sheet with 1/4 cup of olive oil.  Gently pull and stretch dough as you would for a pizza creating a nice large round.  Use your fingers to dimple the surface.  Cover dough with damp clothe and let stand until dough has doubled once again, about another hour. 

Heat oven to 425.  Combine grapes, pears, pine nuts and oregano in a bowl.  Toss together with about 2 tablespoons olive oil.  Arrange mixture over prepared dough.  Drizzle top with remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil - a bit more if feeling brave and sprinkle with a general amount amount of sea salt.  Bake until golden brown, grapes should be hot and juicy, about 25 minutes.  Remove from oven and let cool slightly before serving. 

 

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TAGS: Pears, concord grapes, focaccia, baking, fallmeals, farmers market


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