Labor Day lunch. The September date on which the U.S. and Canada celebrate Labour day (Labour Day) was chosen to avoid the putatively un-American leftist, socialist, communist (and, not incidentally, Haymarket massacre*) associations of May 1, the day on which the rest of the world still honors labor, laborers, “..the class demands of the proletariat, and..universal peace”, …
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winter picnic: smoked fish salad toasts; sliced duck breast
Winter picnic. Fried duck breast part 2. I had bought more of Dolores Kalin’s wonderful smoked fish salad at the Greenmarket the day before, with no particular meal in mind at the time. Then, the next day, when I was looking around for something to fill out a menu in which slices of cold cooked …
a picnic, because it was hot, and just because
We haven’t had what we call a home picnic in a long time. in fact, as I look at the search box on this site, unless I haven’t always been posting these simple meals, it appears it’s been a very long time. These dinners can normally be assembled without any planning, since we usually have …
another German picnick, a very simple one
We decided to have a picnic [Ger. ‘Picknick‘], a very simple picnic, for several reasons: 1. It wasn’t a Union Square Greenmarket day, so it couldn’t be seafood; 2. It was going to be very warm in the evening and we didn’t want to challenge the air conditioner; 3. We had originally thought we’d be busy much …
picnic: prosciutto, cheese, radishes, salad, olives, bread
We occasionally enjoy what we call ‘picnics’ at home (a table laden with assembled foods, not cooked, or at least not cooked by me that evening), on particularly warm evenings or on any other occasion when it makes sense and the concept feels particularly enticing. I can normally assemble this sort of thing without planning …
‘picnic’ of speck, olives, cheeses, ricotta, tomatoes
It was warm, so we decided to have a picnic. Alto Adige/Südtirol Speck from Eataly, and chopped parsley, both drizzled with very good olive oil, three kinds of olives and two cheeses (Danby Vermont goat milk from Consider Bardwell Farm and Arpeggio Massachusetts cow milk from Robinson Farm, and slices of whole wheat (‘Integrale’) bread from Eataly …
a picnic at home: speck, eggplant, tomato, cheese
It’s what we call a picnic; it’s our at-home hot weather meal of last resort (although because they’re such a pleasure, it’s sometimes very much a first resort, independent of an evening’s temperature and humidity levels). We sit at a wooden table next to an open window which looks out onto the roof garden, but there are no …
picnic at home in Chelsea summer place
no bugs, no rain Yes, by now it should be clear that we spent the Fourth of July in our summer place on 23rd Street, where we almost always holiday. In the first two of the three days of the extended weekend we had a meal dominated by fish (a pretty American meal, even if, …
breakfast, the sunday before decoration day, with no graves
It looks like a holiday celebration. Of course I’m thinking of something that used to be called ‘Decoration Day‘, something beyond the morbid, more modern American celebration of soldiers fallen in the name of our national military fetish. I would prefer to think of this late spring weekend as an occasion when people gather, put …
Brotzeit (meat, cheese, tomato, salad, egg, bread)
Barry and I used to call meals like this ‘picnics’. More recently, in the case of particularly German versions, I’ve labelled them ‘Picknicks‘ on this blog. In fact, the appropriate German term would be ‘Brotzeit‘, and that’s how I’ve described this one. The gorgeous lettuce included on the plate is a purple variety whose name was not …