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breakfast/lunch with eggs, bacon, toast, little vegetables
Categories: Meals at homeWe like vegetables so much, that I’ll even load them up on dishes where they wouldn’t normally be much featured; many appear there as miniatures, or in dried form. This time, while it was only a late breakfast, on the plate were fresh tomatoes, a little bitter green, one small scallion, a tiny sweet pepper,…
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scallops, tomato; savory flounder; eggplant; green tomato
Categories: Meals at homeIt was one of those times when the amount of seafood was going to be either too little or too much. At first I decided to just go with the rather small piece of flounder, and make up the difference with an additional vegetable, but then I went back to the fishers’ stall and asked…
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artichokes, chervil cream; mackerel, tomato salsa; squash
Categories: Meals at homeThere’s no real connection between the first and second courses of this meal, other than the fact that the first directly preceded the second, and the second directly succeeded the first. The appetizer was merely assembled. a container of grilled artichokes with mint leaves and oil, from Eataly, divided onto 2 plates, served with a…
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chorizo; cucumber, shallot, dill; potato, basil; seared pepper
Categories: Meals at homeI had no idea what I was doing until I did it. I started with the chorizo, picked out the cucumber, and then the potato, but because the cucumber was small and because I had no idea when I would use a potential third vegetable if it wasn’t in this dinner, 2 mild peppers were…
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shishito; savory butter-baked pollock; tomatoes, basil buds
Categories: Meals at homeWe’ve been big fans of pimientos de padron for more than a decade, later including Shishito peppers, their east Asian cousins, in the same category. The excellent Pollock is a very different thing, and in its case our modest fan club only goes back about 18 months, but we’re as fond of it as we are of…
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parslied/licorice-d cod; tomatoes, basil; potatoes, oregano
Categories: Meals at homeLicorice-d cod. The only thing about this meal that was not familiar was one of the herbs that found its way into it, with some help from Lani’s Farm. ‘Blue licorice‘, is what the little sign read, but it wasn’t blue, and it didn’t look like anything I knew that was associated with one of…
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mustard/fennel-coated lamb rack; grilled tomato; cicoria
Categories: Meals at homeWe were anxious to find a good day for enjoying the second of the 2 racks of lamb I had gotten from Walter Adam‘s farm stall in the Union Square Greenmarket 3 months ago, although I hadn’t expected it would happen during a New York August. What made it possible was a new split-system AC that…
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a colorful breakfast (actually, it really was a lunch this time)
Categories: Meals at homeIt was all good. It also wasn’t really breakfast time any more, by the time we enjoyed it, even in the terms of our own late-eating habits. from Millport Dairy Farm there was thick bacon and Americauna chicken eggs (with thinly-sliced new shallot stems from Tamarack Hollow Farm, fresh oregano buds from Norwich Meadows Farm,…
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cod liver; ‘spanish’ shrimp; green tomato; cucumber, shallot
Categories: Meals at homeThe cod liver tasted a bit like foie gras, but without the guilt, which is to say, it was delicious. four ounces of Icelandic canned cod liver (Skansen) from the Schaller & Weber store, served with little more than pinches of a few condiments (freshly-ground black pepper, Sicilian wild fennel pollen from Buon Italia, fresh…
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bluefish ‘Greek style’, micro fennel; romano beans, dill buds
Categories: Meals at homeWe weren’t certain when, or absolutely certain where, we would be eating last night. We were invited to a friend’s birthday party, in Boerum Hill, where we celebrated earlier in the evening, and we lingered longer than we had expected to. I must however have assumed all along that I’d end up cooking dinner, since…