I’m writing shorter posts here, at least for a while, since I had neglected publishing anything at all for weeks. I may later go back and resurrect a few of the more interesting meals that never made it in print here in February and March, but I’m making no promises to myself that I will …
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smoked scallops, lettuces; thyme-grilled quail; pole beans
Once I got going with specialness, bringing home a super shellfish appetizer from the Greenmarket (where, incidentally, seafood always wild game, except for the delicious farmed trout from Dave Harris’s Max Creek Hatchery) the idea of a main course of grilled quail (delicious, but actually almost always ‘farmed game‘, when it comes to the experiences of most …
smoked scallops, greens; roast veal chops; potato; greens
I had put them together in this meal for other reasons, but the smoked scallops and the roasted veal seemed to somehow share a real affinity, something that was barely apparent to me until I was sitting down to the second of those courses last night. six smoked scallops (a total of 8 ounces) from …
smoked scallops, arugula; duck breast, treviso, balsamic
I suppose it was surf and turf last night, but I can never forget that in the middle ages some ecclesiastical authorities considered some waterfowl to be fish, when it came to observing some religious fasts. six smoked scallops from Pura Vida Seafood Company in the Union Square Greenmarket, brought fully to room temperature, arranged …
ricotta, focaccia; basil-filled scallops, micro mustard; kale
It was to be a very simple meal that I could almost do in my sleep, because we had a guest, and there was going to be some serious discussion about some future construction in the kitchen. I expected to be pretty distracted, but I managed to put together a pretty tasty meal. It turned …
radishes; scallops, greens; swordfish, lacinatto; cheeses
There were four courses, even though it was just an ordinary Saturday, but we rarely stand on ceremony. We began with a couple of different nibbles. a bunch of ‘French breakfast radishes’ from Eckerton Hill Farm, with a small dish of Maldon salt Fiori di Puglia Taralli al Peperoncino, from Buon Italia. There was also a …
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 …