Recipes

Brooklyn’s Best Frozen Treat? Steve’s Key Lime Pie Swingle reigns supreme. Photo: Kara Zuaro Frozen drinks, frosty desserts, and other heat-relieving treats make summer in Brooklyn sustainable. You know, sometimes we just need to take the humidity and beat it with chocolate-dipped key lime pie on a stick (a.k.a. the Swingle, pictured above). This summer, I wanted to try as many frozen treats as possible, and I’ve had so much fun pairing friends with milkshakes, parfaits, and slushies. I got a head-start, but it’s not too late to start your own Summer Treats Bucket List. Here are 11 excellent Brooklyn...

Do you want your skin to appear bouncy, poreless, luminous, clear and translucent? Well, your skin really needs to be its healthiest in every way. The term “Glass skin” is a phrase that originated on the Korean beauty scene and quickly went viral on social media and became super popular in social media. How can I get glass skin naturally? Practicing healthy and balanced self-care is very important. You’ll want to make sure you’re drinking plenty of water, minimizing your use of caffeine and alcohol, following a healthy diet that works for your body, and getting a good amount of...

I work with a team of marine biologists to take care of all of the fish and invert habitats, all of the galleries—cold water, freshwater, sharks, corals, a snail, a plant. We arrive around 6:30 in the morning. After we have a meeting, we do quick rounds and system checks on everything, make sure the animals are doing well: Are they doing normal early-morning behaviors? Just like any other animal that anybody may have in their home, they can’t verbally tell us there’s something bothering them, so we have to know and understand the behavior to pick up on those...

 By Cal Orey, The Writing Gourmet “In the childhood memories of every good cook, there's a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot and a mom.” -- Barbara Costikyan So, here I am fantasizing about a booked trip to Alaska in autumn and enjoying parts of summer. Living at Tahoe has its perks but this season comes with challenges. Yosemite is burning again. Evacuations are happening again. The air quality is holding its own here--so far. And I continue to work on another book based in the South.  The kitchen is oh-so much cleaner thanks to the mega cleanup and feng shui...

Ingredients 1 fish (we used branzino) Ginger Noodles (we used Japanese style somen noodles) Miso Chinese cooking wine Green onions (1 stalk) Sesame sauce Recipe Chop ginger and add to a pan with vegetable oil on high heat. Chop fish into pieces and add to pan. Keep turning the fish until it is charred enough to your liking (doesn’t need to be fully cooked, this it to get the outside crispy). As the fish is cooking… Boil water in a saucepan to cook the Japanese style somen noodles (cook 3-4 minutes, when the pot boils over, add some cold water...