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Leahy's Food Blog

Leahy's Food Blog


The editor of the City Eagle has a long illustrious history in many of Central New York's finest restaurants including The Sherwood Inn in Skaneateles and Pastabilities in Armory Square. She is an adjunct in the food service department at OCC where she teaches a course that covers designing an independent restaurant from the ground up. She also produced Food For Thought a one hour program from food radio's kitchen back in the early 1990s - before the advent of Food Televsion. This blog is simply a conversation about food and beverage and all that goes along with it - "Please join me, I'd love to hear what you are enjoying at your table or range."

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Aug
18

Farmer’s Market Report: One more on the grains


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Borodino's Schoolhouse Farms at market in village of Skaneateles - early august the first of the hierloom tomatoes hit the market - now they are in full run. Photo by Ellen Leahy.
Last week I wrote I about a fresh summer salad I made with Farro - read that online at cnylink.com/news/view_news.php?news_id=1281713935.


So the next grain I cooked up was black barley. Borodino’s Schoolhouse Farm’s Richard Malcolm had said that all the grains lent themselves to the fresh tomato, cuke and basil regiment. But, I thought I needed a break, so instead, I took fresh peaches, skinned them and cut ‘em up. I’d eat the skin, but found somewhere along the way that I was allergic to the fuzz. While the black barley was cooking, I tossed the peaches in a bowl with some cut up heirloom tomatoes. I added leftover cooked corn I had just cut off the cob, stripped in fresh thyme leaves off their stems and chopped up whole raw, unsalted almonds...
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TAGS: Ellen Leahy,Skaneateles Farmer’s Market ,One more on the grains,Kamut,Borodino’s Schoolhouse Farm,Richard Malcolm

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Aug
18

Schoolhouse Farm brings grain to market


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At the Saturday July 31 Farmer Market, way off down the Y Community Center parking lot, I spied Richard Malcolm in a pith helmet. Richard and his charming wife, Rebecca Muir Malcolm, operate Schoolhouse Farm and the Borodino Market just east of the four-corners in Borodino. To cut to the chase, they grow unusual varities of fruits and vegetable including many heirlooms. They also source and distribute high quality, unusual grains, teas, condiments and other goodies in their market that is in a converted old schoolhouse.


Part of the charm of Skaneateles’ Farm Market is the growers’ and gatherers’ knowledge of their products. You want cheap vegetables, go to the Regional Market in Syracuse...
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TAGS: Ellen Leahy,Farro,Schoolhouse Farm,Borodino Market,cooking with grains,Richard malcolm,grain to market

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Dec
29

A martini primer


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This is a basic dry vodka martini garnished with fresh radishes and caper berries.It's all I had! photo by Ellen Leahy.
Whoever invented the extra, extra, extra dry martini did a huge disservice to this cocktail. You know the one, where the barkeep puts the vermouth behind their ears as with perfume, instead of in the glass with the spirit. The vermouth is everything to the flavor of a martini, as without it you just have vodka or gin - anyone can do that - duh. That’s called, “vodka or gin on the rocks.”

Years ago Balloons Restaurant across from the backside of Auburn prison made headlines with its atomized martini...
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TAGS: A martini primer,ellen leahy,leahy food blog,city eagle syracuse,vermouth,Balloons Restaurant Auburn,a perfect martini

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Oct
07

Gourmet bites the dust


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Gourmet Magazine cover from 1974.
I’m not talking cocoa dust. Venerable Gourmet Magazine will cease publication, Conde Nast announced this week.

Once known for its magnificent monthly menu centerfold, the food world’s Playboy is played out. Was it the Internet? The Food Channel? People’s time? The economy?

Perhaps a little of all of the above, but for me it started with former New York Times food critic and author, “Tender to the Bone,” Ruth Reichl. She radically changed the format and for the life of me, I can’t even tell you why it left me cold. But it did. And, I heard this over and over from lifetime subscribers. Don’t get me wrong, I admire Reichl as a writer and even a foodie...
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TAGS: Gourmet Magazine,ellen leahy,Ruth Reichl,Gourmet recipes,Tender to the Bone,Martha Stewart

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Sep
01

The dean of fancy comfort food remembered


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Sheila Lukins (1942-2009):

While Julia Child’s image is gracing the big screen and Rachael Ray is winning Emmys – an American culinary great has slipped away quietly in Manhattan.

Sheila Gail Block Lukins, the co-creator of the Silver Palate, died in her home on Aug. 30 of brain cancer. She was only 66.

Not to take away from Alice Waters, who is credited with starting the quality, eat local American food movement from her Berkeley based Chez Panisse Restaurant in the 1970s, instead, Lukins, certainly could be Water’s East Coast bookend.

In the 1970s Lukins started a catering business from her apartment in the Dakota on Central Park West in Manhattan...
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TAGS: Sheila Lukins (1942-2009),The dean of fancy comfort food,Silver Palate,Ellen Leahy,Julee Rosso,Sarah Lee Chase,Sheila Gail Block Lukins,Alice Waters,Julia Child,New Basics Cookbook,james beard,manhattan food,Julia Moskins

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Aug
23

Sometimes a great lemon popsicle


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Oddly enough the other day I was recalling my first food memory. It was when we lived in California, so I was younger than 4-years-old. And I believe it was at our neighbor’s house.

It was a homemade frozen lemonade popsicle of sorts. I couldn’t remember if it was really shaped like a little chick, as I often picture, or if that was my imagination. But the frozen lemon treat always remains as a constant memory of California in the 1950s.

Now in the 21st century, Friday nights I reserve for a visit to my parent’s home. We take a ride, maybe run some errands, almost always go to the P&C, have dinner, I do some chores around their pad, and then the fun begins. My father and I watch WCNY’s Ivory Tower Half Hour together at 8 p.m...
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TAGS: Ivory tower half hour WCNY,lemon popsicles,bill leahy,Georgian Court,harp music,food memories,lemon

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May
29

I am particular about my Black Olives


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I finally got around to dining at The Black Olive on Clinton Street in Armory Square, across the street from Al’s Whisky Bar. I gotta come right out and tell you that this particular dining experience didn’t really work for me. This is not to say you wouldn’t like it, because there are so many degrees of expectation, taste and style. For example, when I was a kid I really liked those ripe black olives mainly from California, whereas now I much prefer the taste and mouth-feel of imported black olives, like the ones in the big white buckets at the deli counter in Lombardi’s Imported Foods on Butternut Street.

The Black Olive Restaurant’s menu is pretty much Greek. The chef has his or her own interpretations of many of these items that didn’t match my expectations...
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