I made a Ginger Guinness Cake for Thanksgiving and it was a huge hit. It’s called The Marrow’s Ginger Stout Cake on The NY Times Cooking website (it’s their subscription service so I don’t know how to link the recipe).

Cooking notes: per many of the suggestions, I halved both the brown sugar and the granulated sugar. I used Guinness for the stout (and made Jameson’s whipped cream too). I also added some chopped candied ginger so that it has 3 types of ginger in it. The Demerara sugar on top makes for a lovely exterior crunch.

If you do, AMNH, you could combine that with ramen at Jin Ramen (on Amsterdam). Across the park, at The Met, their holiday tree is lovely (in the medieval gallery). And I agree the Temple of Dendur is a great space.

I personally prefer the Bryant Park Xmas tree and skating to Rock Center, but I’m a NY-er, so YMMV. You could easily see Grand Central Terminal (there is usually a small holiday shop set up in Vanderbilt Hall), the NY Public Library (the lions, lovely tree, see the reading room), and Bryant Park (tree & holiday market) in the same day. In addition to shops, tree and skating, in Bryant Park there’s also an outdoor fire (toward the south west) where you could get a hot cider or hot cocoa. It quite lovely.

Note that NYPL will be closed on December 3rd for the members party.

Good luck and enjoy your stay in New York.

As commented already, Pomona is readily available and great for low-sugar and sugar-free recipes. (Fairway, Whole Foods, etc. carry it.) I've used it for most of my low- and no-sugar jam recipes.

Certo is a *liquid* pectin and not all recipes are designed for use with liquid pectin. In my experience, Certo is not generally available (at least here on the UWS). Food Emporium used to carry it but they have closed.

If you're looking for *powdered* sugar-free pectin, that's harder to find but more often what's called for in recipes. Sometimes you can find it at Zabar's (the upstairs has a small corner devoted to canning supplies including jars, lids, and such). But that's hit or miss for the pectin. FYI, if you are buying jars, Zabar's is a good place for them - reasonable prices and they deliver. Thought the per-jar cost may be higher than online, you aren't charged extra shipping.

I usually just suck it up and make one large order at the beginning of the canning season from Ball online (Fresh Preserving store). You can buy the containers of powdered pectin that make multiple recipes as well as the regular boxes. As long as you aren't buying jars, the shipping isn't too bad. They do have regular sales as well.

Good luck.

If you happen to find yourself in the Columbus Circle subway station, there are two stores at Turnstyle that I like. The Nut Box (also a location in Chelsea Market) has the best corn nuts. Seriously, I know that sounds weird but they are super good. And the other store I think is called Farm to People or something like that. They carry a selection of locally produced items that you might like for your "take home" things. They have the Bronx Greenmarket hot sauce and some products by Roni Sue (the pretzel bits are delicious and addicting). There are other items made locally too.

If you see the Wafels & Dinges cart, their speculuus spread is tasty. And very sweet.

Hope you have fun wherever your hunt takes you.

Thanks, Masha, for pointing the "Team" to to appropriate info that was right there in the original post.

Yes, finding site feedback is now difficult to find on an iPad. The very convenient and seemingly well-functioning orange button has been removed for no apparent reason. With every iteration, I find CH more difficult to use on an iPad. All of the threads indicating updates are all about desktop. And then "oh yeah, btw ..." For tablets and mobile. This confuses the heck out of me since the latter is the way things are going. And I'm not young! So it's not just a young person's thing.

Thanks for the answer. But why was the orange button on the bottom right removed? That worked so well.

As for the other... I replied to one person in the thread and tried to reply at another place in the thread. The reply box opened just fine and I could type. But there was no "post" button on the bottom right and therefore no way to finish the process. Yet the "edit" function still appeared on the first comment I had been able to leave. So I used that to just add my remarks there (though they were then in the wrong place).

If it occurs again I will try refreshing. But I assume that will mean that I would lose what I typed, yes?

Just got back and Jeff does have sorrel today, along with a ton of other greens.

Adding here because the post button disappeared near @MikeG --
You know I just bought a bunch of stuff from Jeff including the sorrel but I was there so early they didn't have the price index cards out yet. I'd guess somewhere between 2.50-3.50 per bundle. Sorry. And, yes, it's full sized leaves, not baby lettuce size.

Can I ask how you purée and freeze? And then how do you use it? I'm very intrigued! We love sorrel and buy almost every week when he has it. Thanks.