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haddock baked with potato and tomato, sorrel; bok choy
Categories: Meals at homeI’ve been talking about cold weather food for days, and while this meal continues the theme, the appearance of tomato, and sorrel this time (although both were grown inside), suggests relief might be on the way. It was still an oven-baked dish, and the bok choy was a local January/February phenomenon discovered in the Union…
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a sturdy pasta baked with 1 potato, 2 cabbages, 3 cheeses
Categories: Meals at homeIt was still bitterly cold out, but we’d enjoyed our home and body-warming meat ration the day before. Normally the alternative for a meal on a day when there was no market in Union Square would be a boiled pasta dish, but it seemed to both of us that a baked pasta would be much…
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goat rack; chili-roasted potatoes; cabbage, alliums, vinegar
Categories: Meals at homeIt was winter, the temperature was going to go down into the single digits, and we still didn;t intend to turn on any of the apartment radiators. I took a small roast out of the freezer the night before, thinking we’d appreciate having the oven going Wednesday evening, but also fully aware that a rack…
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mullusk salad, mushroom pasta, shallot, celery, olive, pinoli
Categories: Meals at homeIt was a great meal, with a good balance of flavors, textures, shapes, and colors. It was far better than I had anticipated, since it was pretty much arranged at the last moment. It was also pretty carefree, since I had purchased the centerpieces of both courses already assembled. The seafood salad purchased from a…
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coppa; alliums/lemon/caper-baked pollock, potatoes, kale
Categories: Meals at homeWe love pollock. Once I’ve arrive at whatever fish stall is in the greenmarket on any given day, if I haven’t focused on my choice right away, I’ll sometimes consult with Barry, slacking, asking what his preference might be, giving him a short list, or sending him an image of the menu board (the example…
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rye pasta, cabbage, anchovies, chilis, bay leaves, lovage
Categories: Meals at homeI see a bay leaf in a food photograph, or I see a bay leaf mentioned in a recipe, and I think ‘savory’; it’s not actually the definition of savory, it just happens to be the ingredient I most associate with the word. This pasta was savory. It started with Mark Bittman’s recipe for ‘Pasta with Savoy Cabbage.…
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bacon and eggs breakfast with gram masala
Categories: Meals at homeI haven’t been posting our Sunday breakfasts lately, but this one was something of a revelation, so I decided to include it on the site. Looking for something out of our ordinary for seasoning our usual fried eggs, I pulled down from the shelf a small bottle of gram masala that I’d purchased last fall from Bombay Emerald Chutney…
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coppa; herb-roasted poussin, maple squash; red cabbage
Categories: Meals at homeChicken. Except that it’s not just chicken. It’s poussin. It’s a French thing, although it had a German-American accent on Saturday night. Poussin are almost unheard of in US food emporiums today, if they ever were, and I haven’t even been able to find them in the large New York greenmarket where I get almost…
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sea bass with tarragon; sunflower sprouts; roasted carrots
Categories: Meals at homeOne and a half fillets, fried perfectly this time. Normally I insist on an even number when there are 2 of us, but this time there were 3 fillets, weighing exactly one pound. I was aiming for about a pound of fish, but my only other choices for a divisor for two people would have…
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scallops, thyme; garlic/oregano-roasted tomatoes; arugula
Categories: Meals at homeIt was late January, but last night’s dinner looked more like summer, thanks to the creativity of our local producers (everything, except for the tomatoes, came from area fields and waters). The delicious large cherry tomatoes came from Maine, which, as an adopted New Englander, I think of as almost local (at least it’s not…