I thought this meal was pretty special all the way around. There were certainly at least a couple exotic elements, but everything was quite local. I had been really looking forward to preparing these very special chops. They turned out to be even more delicious than I had expected, which is saying a lot, after …
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blue eggs, green tomato, perfect orange yolks, and more
Actually, it was the egg shells that were blue. I don’t think I should be posting every meal on this blog, and in fact I don’t always do. I especially don’t think I should be writing about every single Sunday breakfast, since they’re almost always assembled around many of the same things, eggs, usually …
lobster on cucumber; cod baked with potato and tomato
(there weren’t enough hats to go around) I spotted the lobster-red blur under the ice at her seafood stall, but Jan told me the two small cooked claws were all they had left that day of their catch of homanus americanus. That’s all I needed to hear: I could take home the lobster and a smaller than …
herb-roasted quail, balsamic sauce; roasted squash; rabe
This menu seemed a little premature for September, game and roasted squash being pretty much an autumn meal, but fortunately the weather cooperated (I wouldn’t want to cook or serve this dinner in warm weather), and the the sun actually haded cross the celestial equator and headed south exactly 24 hours earlier. I want to add that despite …
breakfast ‘without’
It was breakfast without bacon and without tomatoes. Also new this time: No broken yolks, and somehow the whites came off with something of a geometric perfection as well. the list of what there was: blue eggs from Millport Dairy Farm free-range Americauna chickens; husk cherries from Oak Grove Plantation that were there because I …
penna rigata, garlic, chili, tomato, husk cherry, lovage, basil
Looks a bit like a corne copia, or in this case, a patera copia, but it was definitely, in the language closest to the vulgate that succeeded classical Latin, una deliziosa scodella di abbondanza. It is very Italian, but it was conceived on 23rd Street. eight and a half ounces of al dente Afeltra 100% Grana …
oregano/chili-roasted squid; dill potato; grill tomato, basil
Mostly back to the Mediterranean, after a short detour in German lands. one pound of rinsed and carefully dried squid bodies and tentacles from American Seafood Company in the Union Square Greenmarket, arranged without touching if possible, inside a large rectangular enameled cast iron pan that had been heated on top of the stove until quite …
bauernwurst; boiled potato, micro mustard; peppers, basil
German-isch again. Well, actually it was more than just, “-isch”. It was pretty German, but with Mexican and French touches in the wine and the music. four links of Schaller & Weber Bauernwurst (a smokey pork and beef sausage, with pepper, garlic and marjoram), heated inside an oval enameled cast iron pan until the skin …
savory baked flounder; red cress; sautéed peppers, thyme
I didn’t know until almost the last minute whether this dinner would happen. The hot water in the building had failed at around 6 o’clock, meaning it would be impossible to work in the kitchen; it wasn’t until some time close to 10 that it was restored. I then found myself rushing to do justice …
Mangalitsa steak; celeriac paprika frites; scapes; tomato
Even without the red micro amaranth garnish, this is clearly a ‘red meat’. I was more than a little intimidated. I had been offered, and had purchased, a frozen Mangalitsa collar steak one week before, but I had no idea what to do with it. The breed of pig was very different from any known …