For a number of reasons, both of cause and effect, it wasn’t quite a German meal, but it had its pretensions. a small amount of a mix of lard and duck fat, stained, which had been kept in the freezer after 2 previous meals, heated over a low flame inside a heavy vintage oval tin-lined copper pan, …
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smoked mackerel; goat neck; polenta; cabbage; Hutselbrot
While I was growing up, New Year’s Day was a pretty grand occasion at our home: There would be guests, always interesting family friends, but almost never relatives. We were family outliers in Detroit, hundreds of miles from eastern Wisconsin where most of the tribes of both our parents were still based, their ancestors having cleared the …
smoked pork chops in Weinkraut; cress; roasted radishes
We both agreed that this was absolutely the most delicious smoked pork we had ever had – in any form. I’d say it was almost entirely about the virtue of the supplier, Flying Pigs Farm, but I would also have to add that, over time, I’ve learned a little about how to best enjoy this …
smoked trout; lasagna with speck and red pear; dacquoise
It was Saint Valentine’s day, so the dinner had to be a little special, and it wouldn’t hurt if it were also a little red-ish (as it turned out, through all 3 courses – and the wine as well). seven ounces of Solex Catsmo (Wallkill, Orange County, NY) smoked rainbow trout from Eataly, arranged on the plates …
smoked whitefish, cress; elk steak; brussels sprouts, roots
We had some elk in the freezer, remaining from some given to us last spring by a friend who has a cousin who hunts, in the wilds of Kansas. At that time it had been a sirloin steak; on Sunday it was a flank steak. I’ve had very little experience with that cut, even with beef, so I did some …
smoked bresaola, mizuna; truffle-filled pasta, castelmagno
Quite local. December 26 is second Christmas, and a legal holiday, in most European countries, but not in the U.S. (Americans don’t believe in official days off). At our house it’s at least an excuse for another good meal, even if we don’t need excuses. Also, I, at least, have every day off. It makes …
smoked pork, spring onions; potatoes, breadcrumbs; kale
For the last couple of months I’ve been moving around a single smoked pork chop in our freezer. It was the survivor from what had originally been a package of two. Neither of us can remember when we had 3 chops, that is, one guest for a dinner, but to make matters awkward, our favorite vender for these …
light lunch with leftovers, easy, quick, and delicious
Today’s lunch was an ensemble of leftovers, easily thrown together minutes after I had returned from a wintry rendezvous with the Union Square Greenmarket. I knew when I had asked for a pound of fresh tagliatelle earlier in the week that it would be too much for just the two of us, but it looked so …
haddock, cress; Kassler Braten; horseradish potato; tardivo
Yesterday I tweeted that our New Years Day dinner would be “Germany with some Italian, and, as always, New York too”. I followed through later in the day, and this post describes what it looked like, as prepared for four. We began with bread sticks and a sparkling wine, to toast good friends and the new year …
dinner, December 25, 2009
I had originally intended to finish with a quince purée the small rack of venison I had gotten from Ottomanelli this week, but I had been misinformed about the availability of quince this late in December. Learning the truth only the day before yesterday I quickly decided to use pears, one of the alternatives suggested …