Only a few hours before I began to prepare it, I hadn’t thought I’d be making dinner at all Saturday night, but by the middle of the evening it seemed like it would be the most comfortable way to satisfy our hunger, better than a restaurant, and also better than ordering even a very good …
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crab cakes on a tomato salsa; buffalo labneh, herbs, spices
The original dinner plan was to pick up some good wild salmon at Chelsea Whole Foods, but when it came time to do so I didn’t feel like going out, even to the corner, having just finished doing several loads of laundry early in the evening. There was a package of two crab cakes inside …
‘nduja toasts, za’atar; pasta, grape tomatoes, mint, lovage
I don’t know how to characterize this meal, but it was delicious. a few ounces of ‘nduja, a classic Calabrian spreadable salumi (“loosely based on the French andouille introduced in the 13th century by the Angevins” – Wikipedia) now made locally by Rico and Jill of Walnut Hill Farm in Pawlet, Vermont, and available in …
labor day lunch, no picnic
Labor Day lunch. The September date on which the U.S. and Canada celebrate Labour day (Labour Day) was chosen to avoid the putatively un-American leftist, socialist, communist (and, not incidentally, Haymarket massacre*) associations of May 1, the day on which the rest of the world still honors labor, laborers, “..the class demands of the proletariat, and..universal peace”, …
lunch with Amish farm eggs and bacon, tomatoes and stuff
But of course our Sunday lunches (which are also breakfasts) almost always include Amish farm eggs and bacon; it’s almost everything else that changes, although sometimes only slightly. yesterday, in addition to 6 fresh eggs from pastured chickens and 4 slices of bacon from pastured pigs, all from John Stoltzfoos’ Pennsylvania Millport Dairy Farm in the Union …
swordfish belly, tomatoes, epazote; cucumber, onion, dill
It’s certainly one of the easiest seafoods to prepare, especially if you decide it isn’t necessary to remove the skin (although the next time I probably will, if only to make the searing more efficient). Barry suggested swordfish belly when I had I asked him for his preference yesterday, texting him an image of the …
shishito; roasted squid, baby corn on the cob with epazote
I love corn, in almost any form. While that goes for corn on the cob as well, I hate the messy process involved in eating it (I put it in the same category as boiled lobster: best consumed while sitting on sand, preferably rocks, on the ocean, preferably Aquidneck Island). And then there’s corn where …
ciauscolo, rucola, dark bread; sautéed cucumber pasta, dill
I’d never heard of ciauscolo a month ago, but if I had heard the seductive description, ‘soft, spreadable salami’, I would have been very surprised if it did not exist somewhere. I’m now here to say that it does, that it apparently has existed for a very long time, mostly in Umbria and the neighboring …
breakfast with older tomatoes and younger others
While thinking about breakfast this morning I remembered I had some beefsteak tomatoes that I really shouldn’t be hanging onto any longer (I’d had them on the north windowsill for 2 weeks, but still looked and tasted fine when I tested one). The problem was that I didn’t want to turn on the oven when …
culotte, garlic flowers, savory; seared okra, chilis; salsa
Maybe I was thinking just steak and okra would be too white-bread. In any event, I had this big beautiful yellow/orange heirloom tomato which was aching to be a part of this meal, so I decided to turn it into a salsa. It became a problem when I added some jalapeño, even a really, really small …