tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88214908138212890672024-03-05T10:05:07.846-08:00kitchenplayIt's ok to play with your food.kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-23848031673887608592010-07-15T09:58:00.000-07:002010-07-15T10:23:58.422-07:00Support Lucky Old SoulsIt's been a while since we last heard from Matt Feldman (a.k.a. Feldie), jazz connoisseur behind the Newbold music venue and restaurant Lucky Old Souls, first reported on by kitchenplay. Despite a successful re-zoning venture, some great buzz among Philly bloggers, and support from the neighborhood association, it hasn't been the easiest ride. Specifically, Feldman has faced a few obstacles in kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-42807689486032163432010-03-22T17:46:00.000-07:002010-03-22T18:03:57.489-07:00Strawberry Cardamom MuffinsAs I make my cross over from the sad side (thanks for all the sweet comments), I finally put to work some forgotten tools of happiness... brown sugar and butter, berries and spices.Things I learned... strawberry muffin recipes are few and far between, so sometimes you have to use a blueberry muffin recipe instead... I really need a mortar and pestle for grinding spices, as opposed to the handle kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-64016534049912124232010-02-28T12:31:00.001-08:002010-02-28T13:17:38.651-08:00Have You Missed Me?It's been well over two months since my last post. Did I lose my love for food, for cooking with others, for playing in the kitchen? Not exactly. I will confess that I have been on the sadder side of things lately and part of me hasn't been as excited to get my hands dirty in the kitchen. More often than not, cooking - baking in particular - have offered comfort (or at least distraction) for me kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-91259156497065267702009-12-01T15:30:00.001-08:002009-12-02T16:04:52.966-08:00Foodie-Friendly GiftsAs it's the season of giving and all, here are some items that are delicious, adorable, helpful and/or fun. While not all of them are edible, each is sure to please the foodie in your life. And all of them are Philadelphia, born and raised.Sara SelepouchinSara Selepouchin is a screen printer and fellow Newbold resident. She creates single color prints and specializes in diagrams, where she pulls kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-8344382191919488782009-11-29T12:27:00.000-08:002009-11-30T14:31:21.125-08:00Support Brew on 12/11For those of you following kitchenplay's coverage of Brew, you know that it's already a great coffee shop with the dream of becoming a coffee and beer-to-go shop. Actually getting the beer component of Brew up and running has been delayed multiple times over various neighborhood issues. However, fans of Brew have a chance to rally for the establishment on Friday, December 11th at the License kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-27581568056602688692009-11-28T16:35:00.000-08:002009-11-28T17:02:32.045-08:00Doughnuts!After a full day of gluttony, followed by a couple more days of nibbling and picking at leftovers, surely many of you are feeling sated and in need of a food respite. Why speak of luxe desserts and carb-heavy side dishes at a time like this?To that I say, doughnuts!Apple cider doughnuts, to be precise. Melanie and I made these a few weeks ago, on a perfectly brisk fall day.Apple Cider kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-20087258081682587122009-11-21T08:36:00.000-08:002009-11-21T08:39:38.391-08:00ThanksgivingI've been a part of a friend-based Thanksgiving for the past six years. Friends meet up in Philly from all over the East coast (and on occasion, farther away) and share the responsibilities of the meal. We eat a lot. We drink even more. Last year, we worked off Thanksgiving dinner with a dance party.This will be my second year hosting. The turkey has been ordered from the Fair Food Farmstand at kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-57136197830333457922009-11-05T08:45:00.000-08:002009-11-19T12:55:38.663-08:00E's Whoopie Pies at the First Person FestivalThe First Person Festival is underway! We've met Ruth Reichl, consumed burgers, and eaten America. We still have one more foodie event on the roster, The Girl from Foreign, with Indian food courtesy of Ekta.And in more foodie/First Person news, E from Foodaphilia is stocking our concessions stand. And here is the line-up:Oatmeal Whoopie Pies Pumpkin Whoopie Pies Chocolate Whoopie Pies Coconut kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-32301258076214139192009-10-28T09:19:00.001-07:002009-10-28T15:51:50.820-07:00Hanging Out with Ruth ReichlI have already expressed my fondness for Gourmet and the sadness brought on by its recent demise. So I was especially excited to attend First Person Art's First Taste Preview Dinner with Ruth Reichl at Supper this past Monday. And then First Person asked me to blog about it. Rather than re-recount the event, allow me to share what I wrote for First Person's blog. Visit the original post for kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-32595685717588024642009-10-24T12:54:00.001-07:002009-10-24T13:11:49.206-07:00Unhappy HousewifeNormally, I'm quite satisfied in the domestic role, certainly as it pertains to the culinary arts. However, last weekend my friend Elizabeth Hershey, an immensely talented photographer, and I played around with the image of a less-than-content housewife. This resulted in cupcakes thrown on the floor, cleaver wielding and many sips of Jack Daniels.She just posted some of the pictures to her blogkitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-46912357700846258622009-10-23T07:13:00.000-07:002009-11-19T12:55:03.679-08:00Sausage and Mushroom SoupLast Friday was another dinner at Mike's. He took the lead with an entree of squid in red wine with lentils while Mary made dessert. The only appropriate addition in chilly, rainy weather of the sort we'd been having was to cook up a soup. And something in the mushroom barley family seemed perfect.My "mind mouth" was working overtime on Friday. My mind mouth is what I call it when I'm putting kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-11493684652841794262009-10-15T18:23:00.001-07:002009-10-15T20:31:35.912-07:00On My Friends and Steve PosesI just returned from another Author Event at the Free Library of Philadelphia, inspired to take up the keyboard and write. This time, rather than reeling from the ire of Mark Bittman, I am completely charmed by the idealism and good cooking karma of Steve Poses. Poses is famous in Philadelphia as the founder of the Frog and the Commissary, two restaurants at the forefront of the Philly kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-81968290276118229932009-10-13T13:12:00.000-07:002009-11-19T12:49:33.787-08:00Cake TimeThis past week brought two occasions for cake baking, a fundraiser planning meeting and a long weekend with friends in Rhode Island. For the first cake, I stuck with a staple, a cake I've been making for years with great success: a chocolate-covered gingerbread cake. The second cake was brand new, a flourless chocolate cake with a cinnamon-ricotta dollop. I went for a flourless cake since our kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-3737631604688348012009-10-06T16:59:00.000-07:002009-10-06T17:03:28.527-07:00Love CakeThis is just too cute... from Britain's Rocky and Balls...kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-39027927018335810512009-10-05T09:01:00.000-07:002009-10-05T09:34:36.205-07:00Ciao GourmetSadly, Gourmet Magazine is being cut from the Conde Nast publication roster. And while the magazine had become very ad-heavy in recent years and was trying a little too hard to be cool and hip for the young foodie set, it is still my preferred food magazine. It's the one I grew up with. My father has been subscribing to Gourmet since the 70s and it was a staple in my home as a child. When I kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-61945509985694502562009-10-02T10:17:00.000-07:002009-10-02T10:56:18.250-07:00First Person Arts (and Eats)My latest gig is with the awesome organization First Person Arts. I'm coordinating volunteers for their Festival of Memoir and Documentary Art, taking place November 3 - 8. kitchenplay was one of the first things we talked about in my job interview, in part because food is a topic prominently showcased throughout the festival. A number of events focus on food and food writing, including a kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-20438984768893352112009-10-01T17:41:00.000-07:002009-10-01T18:45:27.689-07:00summer into fallOver these past couple months, the real world necessitated that kitchenplay take a back seat. Honestly, I didn't have much to write about anyway. Many meals were eaten in a hospital waiting room or out of a box or skipped entirely. But as the air in Philly has morphed from a muggy heat to a brisk cool, it's time to bring my attention back to food, the making and the sharing of it. After all, kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-72256951068999966532009-08-09T10:48:00.000-07:002009-08-09T12:31:46.871-07:00P.Y.TI'm a little late jumping on the P.Y.T bandwagon, having missed the blogger luncheon that owner Tommy Up so smartly arranged last month. But I made my way to the new joint at the Piazza at Schmidt's before the ROOT Cocktail Competition and finally tasted the burger that has been - both literally and figuratively - on the lips of food bloggers around town.I could just let the photo below speak forkitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-27637431479254080482009-08-05T18:08:00.000-07:002009-08-07T08:42:40.661-07:007 Simple Salads: Salads 2 - 7To recap, despite my disdain for Mark Bittman, I was intrigued by his recent NYT article, 101 Simple Salads for the Season. So I decided to spend a week trying out a new salad each day, starting with number 2, tomatoes and peaches with cilantro. My recent quality time with Bittman has been more fruitful than I expected. The nice thing about these salad recipes is how flexible they are and once kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-67042966906440234302009-08-05T08:48:00.000-07:002009-08-05T08:55:14.256-07:00Blueberries in my coffeeTrust me, kitchenplayers, I haven't forgotten you. In fact, there have been Bittman salads made, homemade soft pretzels ruined and P.Y.T grub taste-tasted. I just haven't written about it all yet. Blame it on the heat. Blame it on Live Arts. But in the meantime, check out this blueberry-laced shout-out to Newbold favorite, Ultimo Coffee at Brew.From Philadelphia Weekly's 50 Must Eats...Counter kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-24329861726749615412009-07-27T07:22:00.000-07:002009-08-06T05:25:46.759-07:00ROOT Cocktail CompetitionMy latest post on uwishunu... and I'll be in attendance. You should be too!Root beer isn’t just for little kids and ice cream floats. ROOT is the new liqueur transforming the classic soft drink into something more adult-appropriate. Based on the (alcoholic) recipe from which root beer originated, ROOT blends smoked black tea, sundry spices and citrus peels to recreate the beverage how our kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-18773926077778903872009-07-23T18:07:00.000-07:002009-07-24T07:58:07.748-07:00Seven Simple Salads for the Week<?xml:namespace prefix = o />Loyal readers of kitchenplay know I dislike Mark Bittman. It’s less about his recipes, and more about his attitude, specifically the attitude displayed towards me and my question during a book talk at the Philly Free Library a few months ago. I won’t go into details, but you can read about my unpleasant encounter at Bite Me Bittman. My friends now get a kick out of kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-84083563214470673912009-07-22T16:47:00.000-07:002009-07-22T20:12:51.146-07:00Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary...Well, I can't speak for Mary's garden, but mine is growing with the help of homemade compost and a small army of children from my block. Newbold Neighbors Association has done a great job starting a community garden this year, a couple blocks from my house. I'm just now greening my thumb, so I'm learning a lot along the way. For instance, if you decide to shop for seedlings with three small kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-68025144090819698202009-07-20T10:44:00.000-07:002009-07-20T10:49:06.070-07:00The NoLibs SeriesI haven’t been as busily posting on kitchenplay lately, in part because my duties as Volunteer Coordinator with the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival are gearing up. Live Arts is a two-week long theater and dance festival in September and about 200 volunteers help make it happen. As per my job title, I get to “coordinate” them.The Live Arts main office just moved from Old City to Northern Libertieskitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821490813821289067.post-32038788358849326932009-07-14T07:09:00.000-07:002009-07-16T12:38:30.042-07:00Brew AlertWord from Brew is they could be selling beer by Thursday! Stay tuned...Update: Grub Street just got the word from Aaron as of a few hours ago. The word is "snags"... various snags seem to be preventing those lonely refrigerators from getting stocked with beer. In the meantime, we have delicious Counter Culture coffee and 4 Worlds Bakery baguettes to sweeten the wait.Apparently protesting is one kitchenplayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237437531834275808noreply@blogger.com2