‘ribs’ I grew up in the upper Midwest, where I’m pretty sure the practice of cooking outdoors on a real fire was called a cookout, at least it was way back then. A barbeque, or more often, bar-b-q, was something cowboys had, or at least something that happened in the Southwest. To me it was certainly …
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flounder, spring garlic, morels; potato; asparagus, thyme
I’m new to cooking with morels (who isn’t, other than the lucky few who can hunt them in nearby fields?); I think I still have work to do on these prized and very expensive fungi, assuming I save up enough for another go: Maybe I’m too allied to Mediterranean cookery, but while this approach with …
roasted: tilefish, ramps, herbs, tomato; asparagus, thyme
Even though I think I’m always prepared for the possibility, I’m still pretty surprised when a meal exceeds my expectations. This one went out of the park. I’m taking a good look at this picture of the first outing of my old, recently re-tinned pan, because I’m pretty sure it’s not ever going to look …
steak, spring garlic, lovage; potato, sage; asparagus, ramps
Fortunately the outside temperature was in the low 50’s all evening, because everything in this meal was cooked inside a pretty hot oven. The more ecocentric part was that all 3 were inside the stove at the same time, cooking at exactly the same temperature. The steak was delicious, juicy, and of a good modest portion; …
pink mushroom/tomato/black sesame flounder; asparagus
It was wonderful. And it tasted as spectacular as it looks. Interestingly, it was assembled with huge portions of serendipity. The first thing I did at the Union Square Greenmarket yesterday was buy the second-last bunch of the first asparagus I had seen this season, inside the first farmer’s stall just inside the entrance. My …
pork tenderloin, mustard sauce; asparagus, ramps, thyme
Part of my life seems like it’s lived in the 19th century, or at least the first part of the 20th. I buy my comestibles from local farmers or maybe their helpers. I cook at home for our little family, and sometimes for guests as well, almost every night. I wash dishes by hand. We use cloth …
grilled tuna, fennel seeds, chilis; sautéed asparagus, ramps
Absolutely delicious. Everything came together perfectly; even the simple halved cherry tomatoes were stars tonight. two 7-ounce tuna steaks from Blue Moon Seafood Company in the Union Square Greenmarket (caught on Scott Rucky’s fishing vessel, ‘Dakota’), tops and bottoms rubbed with a mixture of a heaping tablespoon of wonderful dry Sicilian fennel seed from Buon Italia and …
fried sweetbreads, butter, lemon; tomato; asparagus/ramps
It was another anniversary, this one even more difficult to explain than most, so I’m not going to try. I will explain what we celebrated it with. Sweetbreads. I’ve cooked them before, but always as a braise, incorporating a number of aromatic vegetables and ending up with a real sauce. This time I decided I wanted to go …
roasted porgy, dill, lemon; roasted asparagus, ramp, thyme
Both parts of this meal were roasted. It’s a cooking process I won’t want to work with very often as the weather warms, but it has a lot going for it. I don’t know that porgy has a season as such, but asparagus, or at least the best asparagus does. This was the best asparagus. I normally go …
crab cakes, tomato-mint-chili salsa; asparagus with thyme
The Greenmarket-sourced crab cakes were as wonderful as always, and they hit it off with the radish micro greens; the salsa was a little different from so many earlier versions, and the ingredients somewhat more eccentric; and I think the addition of thyme sprigs worked pretty well with the excellent roasted local asparagus, shown below before …