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 …
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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 …
pink smoked pork loin; purple potatoes; green pole beans
Well, that headline was really unnecessary, but while the meal wasn’t about color, it wasn’t diminished by its richness (which, I have to admit, wasn’t entirely serendipitous). ‘Leftover Kasslerbraten‘. The unembellished words don’t begin to describe the awesomeness. We had begun feasting on this nearly 7-pound roast the first day of this year. We enjoyed its third, …
smoked rillettes; herbed striped bass; cauliflower, tomato
A friend visiting from Los Angeles joined us for dinner on Wednesday. She had last been here in January, when we enjoyed a very middle-of-winter meal, (as in, duck, cabbage, sweet potatoes), so there was little chance of repeating anything this time. That afternoon I brought home three beautiful striped bass fillets from the Union …
smoked chili/lemon-roasted pork chop; potatoes; radicchio
The entrée was a pair of simple pork chops. I’d prepared them almost the same way for many years, with slight variations in seasonings, but what pork chops they turned out to be! I hadn’t been able to locate small chops in the Union Square Greenmarket for months, and at first I was disappointed again …
smoked seafood pâté; seared porgy, herbs, lemon; greens
I had bought two packages of smoked fish salad at the Union Square Greenmarket on Saturday, thinking we’d need that much for 4 people, but we only opened one of them that night. The 2 of us would share the contents of the other container on Monday and Tuesday. a composed smoked fish salad, or pâté, …
bresaola; smoked pork chops; roasted red turnips; sprouts
There was a lot of red, and off-red, but, in our defense, it was Valentine’s Day. The color began, even before any of the food had arrived, when I put this Transvaal native Gerbera daisy and its red-painted ancient iron cachepot on the table (like almost everything else connected to the meal, the plant had …
smoked trout; venison steak; celeriac fries; leaved broccoli
Farmed game. Well, it’s not entirely an oxymoron. It was December 25th, Christmas, so the meal had to be at least a little special. Two forms of wild game would definitely fill the bill, I thought, and that’s what I went for, although without the “wild” part. Unless you fish for trout and hunt deer …
smoked whitefish; grilled swordfish; potatoes, lovage; kale
Our house guest had never eaten in our home before, and he had never had swordfish. On Friday night we did something about both. Frank had come with me to the Union Square Greenmarket earlier in the day, where I saw that Paul Mendelsohn, our Friday fishmonger, was displaying some small swordfish steaks. We had …
smoked sausage, arugula; roasted potatoes with red onion
(the picture was taken just before the mustard arrived on the plate) Dinner was going to be a new sausage from the Greenmarket that I had been anticipating for more than a week, but then I realized that Barry was going to be on the upper East Side that afternoon, so I took the opportunity to ask …