Recipe Nook

America’s cutting-edge chain restaurants are forging ahead into brave new taste terrain. Think you can do better at home? Why not try your hand at a few of these potential new family sensations.

BLT Loaf
Think outside the bread! as the standby bacon, lettuce, tomato is lovingly embraced by two solid slabs of mom-style meatloaf and slathered with mayo, for a hearty sandwich any time of day.

Pizzerole
Take your favorite oven-baked casserole ~ (mac n’ cheese, noodles romanoff, pork n’ beans are all good choices) and raise it a notch by slapping a zesty pizza on top! Finally the kids can agree on dinner.

Lasagna Fry
Bored with grandma’s old-world lasagna recipe? Why not light a fire under it and drop it in the fryer? Crisp breading meets tangy Italian meat and noodles for your new favorite Sunday family treat.

Grilled Chocolate n’Cheese
Why not? You love both- make it happen. Simply put together your favorite griller, then layer a healthy dose of your choice chocolate sauce inside for a savory special feeling.

Chicken Nugget Omelette
Take your fave nuggets (fancy sauce n’ all) and wrap em’ inside a new blanket of eggy goodness ~ melt cheese of your choice (Velveeta works great) and call it breakfast!

Happy Eating & Be sure to send us your new favorites!

WELCOME, IMPUDENT SNOBS!

~ To the next stop on your tour, the living diorama of COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG. Here you can sample the sights and smells of ‘New Yawk’ without ever having to step outside your post-collegiate comfort bubble! Witness the summer spectacle: a cavalcade of colorful ‘New York characters’ engaged in their vanishing neighborhood habitat. You newly minted ivy-league sweethearts and edgy postpunk ‘loners’ will strut by the stoops, street-fairs and bodegas of the urban wonderland, coming so close to actual ‘Brooklyn Types’ (“Italians,” “Puerto Ricans,” and “Jews”) you can almost touch them! Be careful, though- there is a chance they will try and pierce your bubble if you step beyond this year’s ‘safe zone’ we previously discussed. Be sure to enjoy the daily local events happening all along the tour route—

1) Indie-Off Opening Ceremonies (feat. Big Sunglass-Off, Twee-Off etc.)
(10am ~ Bedford and N. 7th)
2) The Pale-Off aka Can you pass for a Pole?
(2pm ~ The American Apparel Greenpoint Gate @ McCarren Park)
3) Bicycle Jousting (sundown ~ Kent Ave)
4) Locally sourced candle-dipping for singles (multiple locations)

Williamsburg – where it’s never not 1994.