It’s not that I don’t appreciate the incredibly huge variety of local seafood available through the seasons from the fishers in New York’s Union Square Greenmarket four days of the week. It’s just that I’m an obsessive for anything new. Yesterday, long after I made it home with a ‘catch’ that I had never come …
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venison loin, quince relish, celeriac frite, red napa cabbage
It was a very special dinner. It was Christmas, but it wasn’t a Christmas dinner. Also, this was not a reindeer. The special part was that it was the feast of winter, which goes by many names all over the world, but which is always observed at around the time of the winter solstice. The …
mushroom, cheese, garlic sausage; roasted roots; shishito
A very sturdy winter dinner, with a few juicy sweet peppers to point out just how sturdy and wintry it was. four 4-ounce artisanal porcini, Parmesan cheese, and black garlic fresh sausages (pork, white wine, salt, Parmesan cheese, black garlic, porcini, and shiitake mushrooms, black pepper, natural casings) from Hudson Vally Charcuterie at Raven & Boar farm, seared …
grilled merlot steak, ramp butter; roasted fingerlings; rabe
I’ve definitely never cooked a merlot steak, and now after engaging it one on one, I can’t remember whether I had even heard of it before last Saturday. We’d just left an art fair that afternoon, when I realized that while we would be guests at a dinner that evening, we hadn’t yet decided what …
pork rillettes; 7-hour pork belly, salt potatoes; tomato salad
The concept, or description of this meal alone might almost be satisfaction enough for a food enthusiast, if it had not also been really delicious, with all of the unusually long history of its making able to be fully savored in the tasting of it; also, aural satisfaction would assume the listener wasn’t actually hungry …
marinated grilled goat chops; chili-roasted fingerlings; rabe
It’s probably a dead giveaway of the really modest size of some of the farms whose produce we enjoy in our local farmers markets that I couldn’t assemble 4 goat chops of the same cut when I was shopping in Union Square recently. No problem however, as I welcomed the chance to show a little …
porchetta, ricotta, wild cress; reginetti, radish, pea shoots
Another weekday meal with a real first course. Well, my reasoning was that because there had been only 12 ounces in the box of good pasta, and I had already used around 8 ounces in another meal, I had only a few ounces left, too few, I thought, to suffice for an entrée, so I …
steak, chive; garlic/oregano-roasted tomato; celeriac frites
Steak and French fries, and catsup. Actually, a grass-fed local steak, celery root frites, and roasted tomatoes. The background story is that I had gone to our local While Foods at some time after 8 in the evening yesterday intending to pick a wild Northwest Coast wild salmon fillet, as I do occasionally (and in …
spicy goat ribs, mustard sauce; rutabaga frites and greens
‘Goat wings’, I’m calling them. They had started out great. But then they spent too much time in the oven. My estimate of the cooking time for slow-braised goat ribs was far more generous than it should have been (I was looking at a recipe for lamb, but I had goat (goats are pretty small, …
coppa, arugula; baked cod, potatoes tomato; frizzy mustard
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 …