I had all this spring stuff, and I thought I shouldn’t really let it just lie around any longer, so I found a way to put it all together with some great pasta. six or 7 ounces of fiddlehead ferns from Tamarack Hollow Farm, washed vigorously in several changes of water until the brown chaff …
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sautéed sea bass; chestnut mushrooms, chilis; purple kale
I’m still not used to my forays with some of the finer kinds of white fish ending up as splendidly as lately they sometimes have. This was one of the very best. It all started in the Union Square Greenmarket, as always. That image is of only one of the 3 or 4 reservoirs of …
lemon-roasted pork chop; braised chestnut; treviso, thyme
It started with two paper baskets of local foraged chestnuts, the very last remaining on the farmer’s table in the Union Square Greenmarket. I had hoped to find some kind of game, or game-ish bird which they might accompany on a cool autumn evening, but then we were away for 5 days, and since my …
lomo with greens; chestnut pasta with red cabbage; cheese
Yoeman service. Because of our schedules lately, all of the meals I’ve recently prepared have had to be somewhat improvised, even a bit sketchy, and often involved leftovers, and what I call ‘hangers on’ (ingredients that have been around for a while and which I judge really should make it into a meal soon). This …
octopus carpaccio; chestnut pasta, red cabbage; cheese
Wintry and earthy, but first a little sun and sea. Chestnuts and red cabbage, or more precisely, chestnut pasta and red cabbage. But first there was octopus. I’ve served both of these dishes before, but never anywhere near each other. Last night however, looking around for something to lighten a sturdy pasta, at least with some proximity in …
chestnuts (here without the lore)
I have so many deep personal associations with every aspect of the chestnut tree that I don’t even mind that the nuts themselves are the dickens to prepare. These were in the stall of Keith’s Farm today, three nuts inside their burr in the picture at the top, baskets of nuts for sale below.
balsamic lamb salad; chestnut fusilli, mushroom sauce
The antipasto included the lamb that remained from an earlier meal, now at room temperature, more mellow and sweet than when it had just been cooked and still warm (for what it is worth, the little roast was too small to allow me to make neat thin slices, so it looks rather chopped up here). …
Guinea fowl, chestnut stuffing; sweet potatoes; kale
I had seen the little display of vacuum-wrapped Guinea fowl at the stand in the Union Square Greenmarket a number of times before, but it was only a few weeks ago that I finally asked about them. They were lying on the table inside Lucky Dog Organic‘s stall. Rich Giles told me that they were grown …
grilled quail, red cabbage with chestnuts
dinner, 12/5/10 We both agreed that this simple entree was the best quail either of us had ever had, and the red cabbage/chestnut braise was an inspired accompaniment, even if the nuts were actually a serendipitous greenmarket find and the crucifer a refrigerator survivor, what remained of a head after some of it had been …
storione affumicato carpaccio di barbabietola; ‘magic meal’
It was my 80th birthday, and the dinner – including the wines – was as exceptional as the occasion. I might say that in this latest appearance, our storybook ‘Magic Meal’ was actually upstaged by the first course, but I won’t, out of huge personal sentiment – and loyalty to both a great restaurant (Al …