Looks aren’t everything. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Good things come in threes. Red is good. I mean, to me the the picture looks good, and at least to anyone who might enjoy the kind of dinner it describes, it’s probably a fairly appetizing image. What it doesn’t show however is …
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grilled zucchini, chevre; picanha; tomato; roasted potatoes
Sure, it was steak and potatoes, with one small red tomato for a light touch – and – color, but before that there was a very light appetizer of freshly grilled zucchini slices with a really good local chevre and some spicy mint. I think the news about a study about meat studies had just …
pig’s face roulade; picanha, rosemary; peppers; tomato
There were going to be three of us for dinner, as we were entertaining a favorite relative. I wanted the meal to be special, but it wasn’t a market day, so there wouldn’t be fish. I also wanted to be able to visit without any major cooking distractions, so I thought of steak. One of my …
steak, savory; mushrooms, spruce tips; broccolini (3 allium)
It was Barry‘s birthday, so the meal would have to be special (for me, they’re all special, if only for the wonderful company, but some ingredients may be more special than others). Because it was a Saturday night, when so many New Yorkers are searching for the right dinner table, we thought ‘special’ and right …
grilled merlot steak, ramp butter; roasted fingerlings; rabe
I’ve definitely never cooked a merlot steak, and now after engaging it one on one, I can’t remember whether I had even heard of it before last Saturday. We’d just left an art fair that afternoon, when I realized that while we would be guests at a dinner that evening, we hadn’t yet decided what …
culotte steak, chives; habanada-roasted potatoes; lacinato
The best steak. The plate suggested the New York steak house classic: Steak and potatoes, with something green on the side. There were even chives, but they weren’t to be found on the baked potato, and the vegetable proved that everything green is not spinach. Actually, I think everything was very different. We don’t eat …
steak, lemon, lovage; fingerlings, garlic, habanada; collards
Meat and potatoes. And greens. two incredibly delicious sirloin cap steaks (otherwise called ‘culotte’ here, ‘coulotte’ in France, ‘picanha’ in Brazil, or “the part where the cow was poked by ranchers“), from Sun Fed Beef/Maple Avenue Farms in their stall at the Union Square Greenmarket, brought to room temperature, seasoned on all sides with sea salt and freshly-ground black …
culotte, ramp butter; fennel seed-roasted carrots; sprouts
Size didn’t really matter. Until the package had defrosted, there was no way to tell how many pieces of steak it contained, or, of course, how much each weighed. Those numbers aren’t all important however, at least until it’s time to put the dinner on the 2 plates, when questions of aesthetics and fair apportioning …
squid/conch salad, cress; culotte; roast potatoes; tomatoes
With a little extra help from the Greenmarket. The first course required little more talent than an ability to open a container. eight ounces of a squid and conch salad, with olive oil, parsley, red pepper, lemon juice from P.E. & D.D. Seafood in the Union Square Greenmarket, made by Delores Karlin, the wife of …
ripe shishito; culotte steak, ramp butter; roast sweet potato
Color has returned to the table, especially in this appetizer. a couple handfuls of delicious, very juicy ripe shishito peppers (normally sold before they are mature, and still green in color, they move toward orange and then red as they mature) from Berried Treasures Farm, washed, drained, dried, then sautéed over medium high heat in a …