Duck Eggs
There’s an awful lot of yolk in these larger-than-chicken eggs, and they’ll serve to make devilishly good stuffed eggs. Not your basic summer picnic one-biter, either, but a hearty, protein-rich three-bite snack. Take two and call it a meal.
The New Drew’s
The favorite son of the Bayshore is building out the latest incarnation of the restaurant that exemplifies the soul and the spirit of his hometown. This time, it’s 100 percent his own.
Sunday Gravy
“Mozzarella spiedini” is one of a number of dishes on the menu at this South Shore newcomer where Italian-American classics get a sure-handed lift. Why not? The genre’s bloodlines run through all parts of the Garden State.
Fishing for Ideas
Hosting or contributing to a traditional Feast of Seven Fishes this Christmas Eve? Planning a seafood fest during these holiday weeks or sometime in early 2023? The team at Sweet Amalia’s has a blueprint for success mapped out and ready to inspire.
Ditas Market
A new market in Metuchen that specializes in Indonesian prepared foods and pantry staples offers options for takeout that might ease your cooking burden and ignite your interest in the cuisines of the archipelago native to the family behind its stoves and stocking its shelves.
Hatch 44 Café
Welcome to the exact-right café for today: Andrea Perez’s latest incarnation of her breakfast-brunch-lunch spot in a town with a core of culinary enterprises that is drawing the kinds of diners this energetic entrepreneur had in mind when she wrote her menu and designed her space.
Auld Acquaintances: 12-19-22
And so as the year draws to a close, a fivesome of dishes that may have worn out their welcomes elsewhere rise to new levels. Don’t you love a nice surprise?
Monkfish
If you’re short a fish for a proper Feast of Seven Fishes dinner, think local and think seasonal. Right now is the time for the big, brawny bottom-feeder often dubbed “poor man’s lobster.” Ella experiments and reports.
Q-BA
A restaurant-lounge in the city that’s closing in on its 150th anniversary touts Cuban classics and sometimes puts a spin on the norm to elevate a dish to downright special.
Doughnut Royalty
Hanukkah’s crowning confection takes center stage at Erie Coffeeshop & Bakery in Rutherford, as chef-owner Renee Faris and her team mark the holiday with a special bake of sufganiyot.
Dvaraka
Snack to it! It’s the littler dishes that count for major flavor at a college town South Asian storefront where there’s a short-and-spiced-right lineup of quick bites.
Spinach Quiche
That big steak you’re eating during a celebratory dinner? And that heaping side you couldn’t resist? Take a doggie bag of the unfinished steak and do not leave behind its classic companion of creamed spinach. Sue’s got a plan for the perfect follow-up supper.