Fast food (the crab cakes; the rest was slow). This may have been my favorite treatment to date for my favorite Greenmarket crab cakes. It involved placing them on a bed of very ripe heirloom tomatoes and some Thai basil, and adding a ‘topping’ of a peppery melange of baby greens. I decided on the green side entirely because …
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crab cake, tomato salsa; agretti; grilled young onion
I won’t make extravagant claims about its visual aesthetic, but I will say that this was an incredibly delicious meal, and that was something of a surprise, since while I was preparing it I thought I was merely emptying the ice box and the cupboards prior to our leaving the city for five days. I’ve already written about …
crab cake, collards, prosciutto; baby potato, savory
Note to self: The dinner and wine were both delicious, but the music was extraordinary, plus a huge surprise, since I had thought, as a huge fan of Hans Werner Henze for well over half a century, I was familiar with virtually all the recorded heterogeneous work of this awesome leftist, queer musical and theatrical genius. The fisher folk were …
lemon-roasted pork chops; mustard greens; pickled beets
This was the first fully-prepared meal I have been able (allowed) to put on the table since cutting off the tip of my index finger in a kitchen accident on the 7th, and I relished every bit of it. In preparation, I went to the Greenmarket the day before, fairly late, as I had only to pick up …
pork chops with tarragon; tomato; Brussels sprouts
We hadn’t eaten meat in 9 days, although that was certainly no hardship for us. After enjoying a small duck breast, from Long Island or Pennsylvania, on October 22, we had feasted, in succession on Long Island eel; ‘Hudson River prawns’; zucchini-filled pasta made 2 blocks away; penne with local Romanesco; and New York-local-waters-sourced mackerel, crab cakes, scallops and Grey …
grilled mackerel, tomato/caper/fennel salsa; haricots verts
It looks as good as it tasted. Mackerel is a super fish, and if the recipe chosen works with its singular qualities, there’s almost nothing better. This recipe is one of my favorites, and in fact so favorited that it’s almost my only one. And the fillets looked great throughout, from the moment I spied them inside the fisher’s bucket …
cacio e pepe, habanada, 2 foraged greens, tomato, cheese
I love the small challenge of building a meal around pasta, and it’s particularly easy when I can start with a filled pasta from a good local source. Regional specialties, new inventions, or just out-of-the-ordinary ones are always good. ‘caccio e pepe’ ravioli from Luca Donofrio‘s fresh pasta stand inside Eataly Market, finished in a pan with …
breaded mint/chili/leek-marinated swordfish; kalette chips
This swordfish dish has become very familiar on this site, except that last night the fresh herb was mint rather than the usual oregano, and the micro ‘greens’ which finished it were chard, which may never have made an appearance here. The vegetable was almost totally new to our table: Ten months ago I had served Kale sprouts (the …