Like many nights, dinner at home was also a night at the opera. A note on the subject of our dinner music: During our evening meals we often listen to a recording of an entire opera (or a large section of one, continuing it later that night or the next day). I could call it …
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pepper venison; herb-roasted potatoes; red cabbage; tilsit
It was a holiday. And there was game. Although venison is hardly what comes to mind on the day when the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. is especially abroad in the land, last night we celebrated the birthday of the great man partly with this very good meal. It was especially good, especially on an …
penna rigata, scapes, tomato, sweet pepper, basil, pecorino
I think that simple assemblages of a good fresh or dry pasta and good ingredients, sometimes, but not necessarily always fresh ingredients, are among the most satisfying meals of all, in the preparation and in the eating, and this was one of the best. It’s the sort of meal that asks for no real skill, …
mustard-floured fried blowfish; thyme-roasted asparagus
I had a huge variety of seafood to choose from yesterday all at this one Union Square Greenmarket stand, but I knew almost immediately which I would pick. They are a great seasonal treat in New York, and after some initial skepticism, I’ve grown fond of them. There’s also this: I’m still not sure why, …
fried blowfish; tomatillo-tomato-shallot-fennel-lovage salsa
I used to be puzzled by the people who get so excited about the arrival of blowfish in the local fish market (in the big piscivore picture, their numbers may not be large, but it always seemed like I was the only one who didn’t get it). I get it now. As I wrote last September, they …
sautéed whiting, scallions, herbs, lemon; potatoes, greens
It’s an excellent fish. Unaccountably, it’s less expensive than many of its culinary cousins (hake, cod, halibut, sea bass, tilefish, pollock, ocean perch, or porgy, among others) but demand and celebrity dictate these things in the food world, and the restaurant world, pretty much the same as they do everywhere else. It’s also a good-looking fish, even …
blowfish; grilled eggplant, garlic, marjoram; tomato; cheese
For some reason I can no longer remember, I had persuaded myself long ago that I had no interest in blowfish. In any event, after last night’s meal, that’s changed. I had seen recently on Twitter that these little guys were back in town (thanks to our hard-working Long Island fishermen and the Union Square Greenmarket). …
frittata with peppers, scallion, chilis, herbs; spice; radicchio
It was a simple assignment: put together an uncomplicated meal with the first red peppers from the Greenmarket and some of the very fresh 16 eggs I had in the refrigerator at that moment. To make it more interesting, something more than that to which a frittata might otherwise aspire, I also had on hand some other fine ingredients, familiar and …
sea robin, tapenade; garlic-chili-grilled patty pan, lovage
The sea robin was delicious, but I think I overdid the garnish this time. It really didn’t need the bed of arugula, especially since I was sprinkling the fish itself with some torn fresh basil. I was trying to hard to use the arugula I had in the refrigerator door while it was still sprightly, but also I …
crab cakes on a spicy tomato salsa; bicolored ‘kalettes’
The crabcakes and their tomato ‘bed’ were both pretty familiar, but the greens stripped from a hybrid stalk of Brussels sprouts and kale was new. The verdict – for both the farmer and the cook – is still out on these particular greens. two crab cakes from PE & DD Seafood (the ingredients are crab, …