Fall/Winter

Start

• whole roasted cauliflower with salsa verde

• store-bought feta and olives in olive oil

• warm bread

Main

• Ina’s red wine braised short ribs

• blue cheese grits

• orange roasted rainbow carrots

Dessert

• blood orange freezer cake or put out oranges slices and dark chocolate

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Spring/Summer

Start

• big veggie platter with beet hummus and babaganoush, za’atar nuts

• prosciutto and cantaloupe

Main

• Charlie Bird’s farro salad

• mom’s mac salad

• cabbage slaw with charred scallion and lime dressing

• Jamaican jerk chicken skewers

• Seemore sausages + buns/hotdogs

Dessert

• Grilled peaches or pineapple with dukkah and vanilla ice cream or put out ice cream sandwiches and/or a berries

• Chicken Adobo

• Keto Bao

• Ube Challah

• Deli Roll

To get started

• Salt Fat Acid Heat

To get confident

• Simple

For Filipinx food origins and beautiful recipes

• I Am a Filipino

For involved but high impact recipes (all vegetarian too)

• The Modern’s Cook Year

For comfort

• Jubilee

• Modern Comfort Food

For weeknights

• Simply Julia

For social commentary

• The Cooking Gene

• Tikim

• Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

• The Taste of Conquest

• Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power

For Fertility and Pregnancy

• The Infertility Cure

• Real Food for Pregnancy

Tools

• Knife

• Cutting Board

• Aprons

• Bakeware

• Oven mitts

• Small tongs

• Big tongs

• Tiny spatula

• Big spatula

• Non-stick pan

• Mini cast iron

• Stainless steel pan

• Dutch oven

• Braiser

• Stockpot

• Salt cellar

• Cute wooden spoon that hangs off the pot

• Hot pot split pot

• Induction burner

• Kale stripper

• Musubi maker

• Bench scraper

• Scale

Organization

• Clear lazy susan

• Medium lazy susan

• Spice jars

• Spice rack

• Tape

• Paint pen

• Meal prep pad

• Containers for soup

• Travel pouches for snacks

• A Dozen Cousins rice and beans

• Rao’s marinara

• Barrio Fiesta bagoong

• Patis

• Short grain brown rice

• Farro

• Hondashi

• Korean fishy stock bases

• Spicewalla pescado verde seasoning

• Anchovies

• Soom premium tahini

• Rice noodles

• Chickpea pasta

• Gochujang

• Chickpeas

• Dark chocolate

• Date syrup

Breakfast/snacks

• Packets of Justin’s almond butter

• Sardines

• Avocados

• Rolled up deli meat

• Fatty nuts (macadamia, pecans, etc..)

• Hard cheeses

• Dry cured meats

• Flaxseed crackers

• Seaweed snacks

• Radishes

• Dips (cashew queso, eggplant/red pepper, salsa verde)

Drinks

• Collagen peptides

• Instant coffee

• Tea

Dinner

• Log of polenta

• A big grain salad

• Delicata squash

• Seemore sausages

• Shin ramyun

Chinese

• Ling Long Xuan

• King Szechuan

• Yaso

Indian

• Clove Garden of India

• Karma Kafe

Italian

• Roman Nose

• Antique Bar & Bakery

Sushi

• Honshu

• DOMODOMO

Vietnamese

• New Thanh Hoai

Pizza

• Low Fidelity

• Krispy

Filipino

• Jayhan’s Grill

Burgers, etc.

• White Star

• Ohara’s

• Shake Shack

Fried Chicken

• Bob White Counter

Mexican

• Taqueria Viva Mexico Kitchen Cafe

• Taqueria

Chinatown

• Pineapple roast pork bun from Mei Lai Wah

• Beef pan fried noodles from Great NY Noodletown

Tacos

• Los tacos #1

Dosas

• NY Dosas

Best Tasting Menu

• Jua

• Blue Hill

K-Town

• Baekjeong

• New Wonjo

• Soju Haus

Brunch

• Nur

• Jack’s Wife Freda

Coziest

• Vinegar Hill House

• Frenchette

Steakhouse

• Keens

Italian

• Supper

• Da Andrea

• Palma

Pie

• Sour cream apple pie from Little Pie Company

Working Lunch

• The Crosby Bar

• Locanda Verde

Babka and other nosh

• Zabar’s

• abbycooksdinner playlist on Spotify

• Another good playlist

• And this one

• Favorite jeans

• Favorite socks

• Favorite slippers

• Favorite sweats

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