I was driving along down a nondescript side street in Englewood the other day when I stumbled upon a little buttery slice of France. Tucked away between drab office buildings and broken-down factories, a pale yellow awning with familiar lettering caught my eye. In the .com heyday when I worked in Soho, I enjoyed many [...]
We are thrilled to kick off our new Featured Chef Recipe Series with Princeton’s Chef Jason Hensle. Each week (I hope) we will bring you a new and exciting recipe from New Jersey’s finest chefs. If you have a favorite restaurant and would love to try one of their recipes at home, send them a [...]
This week we have another treat for all you bakers out there. Singing Dog Vanilla is giving away two 5 oz. bottles of their Organic Vanilla Extract to two lucky winners here on Jersey Bites. (One bottle each, I’m sure you got that, right?) Singing Dog Vanilla™ vanilla beans are organically grown in the lush [...]
This week’s winners of this Gina Von Esmarch’s terrific cookbook are: Dina said… Cookbook seems full of delicious recipes! And jen said.. I would love to win this cookbook!! Congratulations Ladies. Definitely try the Finger Lickin’ Chicken. (I’ll be posting that recipe later in the week for those of you who didn’t win the book. [...]
The folks at Weight Watchers offered to send me some candy. Free candy, did they think I was going to say No? I will admit though, I had my doubts. I’m no fan of “Mocolate” and I was pretty sure a big bag of it was headed my way. Then, I heard that Whitman’s Candies [...]
One of my favorite FoodNetwork hosts, Tyler Florence, (isn’t he dreamy?) is hosting a contest called “Macy’s Keeps America Cooking.” The requirements to enter are simple! Create a short video of yourself demonstrating an original recipe that represents what gets you cooking. Then end your video with the line, “From my (insert your town) kitchen [...]
This week we have a tasty treat for everyone. Gina Von Esmarch author of Taste This! is donating 2 copies of her beautiful new book to our Win it Wednesday giveaway. I am lucky enough to already own a copy of Gina’s book. What I love about her book besides the beautiful pictures are the [...]
How about that, this is a very happy occasion indeed. Not only does one lucky winner get to walk away with a $25 Gift Card to the Outback Steakhouse, but this is also my 200th post on Jersey Bites. (Just picture confetti shooting out of your keyboard right now. Woo Hoo) Oh, I know, you’re [...]
You are going to love me for this one, I promise. This chowder is so good it’s Aspen ski lodge good. It’s seaweed spa treatment good. Heck, it’s even itchy, winter skin back scratch good. Over the weekend, we all got quite a bit of snow here in New Jersey. As you can see, my [...]
