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grilled fennel/chili paved tuna; tomato, basil; eggplant, mint
Categories: Meals at homeThis was rich, but a spring, Mediterranean kind of rich. Everything was juicy, although I hadn’t started out with that objective. It was more of a quest to choose and prepare 3 things that would contrast with but still complement each other. The very ripe grape tomatoes were at their peak juiciness, but I worried…
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pasta, radicchio, feta, garlic, parsley, lovage, breadcrumbs
Categories: Meals at homeIt was a splendid meal, and extremely satisfying. Barry really loved it. I’m thinking of referring to it in the future as ‘the little magic meal’, since, aside from its other charms, it also betrays physical hints of the original. Everything came together beautifully, and surprisingly easily. My idea was to use some of my stock…
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bluefish ‘greek style’ (this time with feta); red new potatoes
Categories: Meals at homeIt was a phenomenal dish. Because it was a great recipe, really very easy to put together (if you have most of the suggested ingredients), and because it welcomes variations and improvisations. This time I included feta cheese for the first time, which wasn’t really an improvisation, since it’s suggested in the original, very sketchy…
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waldy’s pizza, and crossing borders with other arts as well
Categories: Meals at homeSometimes we order pizza. We rotate among several really excellent shops, and they’re their styles are totally individual. They are not all Italian. This past Sunday seemed to have been wrapped up in one thousand and one days. I’ll explain. We ordered pizza in the evening, but it felt even more special than usual. We…
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breakfast with lettuce and tomato; abrahamic psalms
Categories: Meals at homeand one piece of egg (actually two, but at least they’ve been arranged as they were in the pan) the ingredients were relatively few (few at least for our breakfast room table): 6 fresh eggs from pastured chickens and 4 slices of bacon from pastured pigs, all from Pennsylvania’s Millport Dairy Farm in the Union…
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pasta, pink celery, spring garlic, habanada, coquillo, pinoli
Categories: Meals at homePretty in pink. How did Americans get saddled with the celery equivalent of supermarket tomatoes or apples? It seems it’s for pretty much the same reasons, as I learned this week: In the 1930s growers shifted to varieties derived from Giant Pascal, such as Tall Utah, that were more resistant, productive and kept well. This…
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grilled herb-coated shark, bronze fennel; potatoes; mustard
Categories: Meals at homeWhen I’m shopping at any of the fish stalls at the Union Square GreenmarketI’ll I usually zero in on whatever I consider the most unusual catch of the day, so of course I brought home some of the shark steak on display on Friday afternoon. two thick 9 or 10-ounce thresher shark [alopias vulpinus] steaks from…
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fresh wild salmon, butter, dill, onion florets; cucumber, kale
Categories: Meals at homeIt’s beautiful, and the recipe I used this time let me keep the skin on, but then the steak had to end up on the plates skin side down, so there was that. one beautiful section of salmon fillet, a piece of a wild, almost rainbow trout-like flanked, bright red fleshed, 16-ounce Copper River sockeye,…
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oregano/chili/habanada/lemon-roasted squid; redbor kale
Categories: Meals at homeThe squid was delicious, as it always is with this very familiar recipe (and with virtually any other), as was the kale, a particularly tasty redbor (brassica oleraceae ‘redbor’), whose appearance could more accurately be described as ‘frilly purple and green kale’. The big deal for us however was the farm where the vegetable was…
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prosciutto, red greens; spring garlic and agretti spaghetti
Categories: Meals at homeMaking do. I mean that I had a choice of pasta, and more than one interesting ingredient to make it shine, and I decided the day before not to look further. When I found that even with the special element I had picked it would not really be much food, and realizing that we would…