I wasn’t sure this would work out. I had been hoping to enjoy an evening meal that would be almost like a day off, or at least something close to it, by putting together a simple pasta. I never take these simple pasta breaks too lightly however, because with a little creativity and a very …
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fennel-grilled tuna, amaranth; burdock; chard, coriander
I’d never cooked with burdock before, and I’m not certain I did the right thing with it last night, but it was interesting. The ‘chips’ proved to be a little more difficult to get right than all the other roots I’ve prepared this way. I’m just going to have to do more research before I …
steak, spring garlic, lovage; potato, sage; asparagus, ramps
Fortunately the outside temperature was in the low 50’s all evening, because everything in this meal was cooked inside a pretty hot oven. The more ecocentric part was that all 3 were inside the stove at the same time, cooking at exactly the same temperature. The steak was delicious, juicy, and of a good modest portion; …
flounder, sage, spring onion, lemon; fiddleheads; tomatoes
While we were in the middle of this meal last night I tweeted, “omg, just discovered fish, because that’s very much what it seemed like while I was enjoying these extraordinarily delicious little fillets. Always trust your fishmonger. When you suspect a suggestion, or at least a hint, might be on its way, don’t worry about being …
duck breast; sweet potatoes; mustard, radish greens; etc.
There were a number of intersections in this meal, and I thought about them only once the cooking was well underway. Although the word is inexact, and probably inapposite here, by ‘intersections’ I mean that there were some close relationships and repeats among its ingredients: There were 2 kinds of fresh greens, and 2 kinds …
fennel/chili-coated tuna; roasted potatoes; rapini; cheese
Another anniversary! At least partly because we’re living in the mythical state of sin, we celebrate not one, but five anniversaries: our meeting, the ‘magic meal’, declarations of love, exchange of rings, and happy-ever-after cohabitation. It’s a series that stretches from 4/27/91 to 1/6/93, and since they don’t show up chronologically within a single year …
steak, ramp butter; potatoes roasted with red onion; chard
Last night we had some old friends over for dinner. They were visiting their previous city from their current home in the Southwest. We hadn’t seen them in at least 15 years, and I was a little worried about what to put on the table, so I just went with meat and potatoes – and …
stuffed scallops; cod baked with potatoes; rapini; gelato
Our special guest, visiting from overseas (oh, magic word) had never had dinner in our apartment, at least not while we were there, so I wanted the meal to be special as well. The most important thing was not to mess up; the second was that it would be delicious, but also reflect some of the …
lemon-roasted pork chop; tomato; cress; sunchoke ‘chips’
It wasn’t a fish day at the market, and it wasn’t even a market day. In fact I hadn’t been to the Greenmarket in 4 days, so I wouldn’t have had much to work with if I had wanted to put together a pasta or egg dish. Then I realized that it was probably time …
roasted monkfish with potatoes, olives, laurel; bok choy
I had thought about presenting a very different monkfish dish tonight, but it was one that would have required a bit of dexterity. For that same reason, as I was feeling a bit under the weather with a bad cold, I fell back onto an old standby that’s always pleased. Monkfish is the delicacy the …