The excellent swordfish and the luscious tomatoes were terrific side dishes for the puntarelle, a huge hit with both Barry and myself last night; it was probably the best we’d ever had at home. two thick 7.5-ounce swordfish steaks from American Seafood Company in the Union Square Greenmarket, halved, marinated for more than half …
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artichoke ravioli, garlic, heirloom tomato, marjoram buds
I had a pound or so of heirloom tomatoes, less than a third of which were super ripe (which is good, when it comes to heirlooms). I was determined to use them in Sunday night’s meal, but the amount wasn’t going to be enough to serve with the pasta I had in mind to prepare. …
culotte; grilled eggplant, marjoram; tomatoes, micro basil
Late this past Friday we had invited a visitor from far outside New York, who was only going to be here for another week, to join us for dinner the next evening. I calculated that I had enough vegetables, and fruit, for 3, but the next day I would have to go down the street …
marinated baby squid, baby corn, savory; baby cukes, dill
They really were all ‘baby’ things, as I tweeted last night, baby squid, baby corn, and baby cucumbers (even if only the corn had been labelled as such), and all of them came from the Union Square Greenmarket. It certainly wasn’t something I had been after; it just happened, but fortunately, as I added then, it …
buffalo steak, shallot; potato, scallion; radicchio, red onion
Our dinner Thursday night turned out looking fairly wintry, given its many shades of brown, and the fact that each of its 3 parts included a different allium. In fact however most of the meal was determined by my wanting to include several ingredients that I’d been shifting around the kitchen for a while. The …
tautog, tomato water, olives, herbs; grilled scapes; tomato
After a week away, yesterday was my first day back at the Greenmarket and last night my return to actually cooking from the ground up, but parts of this meal is actually composed of ingredients I had assembled sometime before our little long weekend. The ‘tomato water‘ I used on the fish was processed from …
culotte steak, shallot blossom; tomatoes, dill flowers; okra
‘Heil sei dem Tag!’ It was the Fourth of July. We had a nonpareil steak, ripe tomatoes, the first okra of summer, and a sturdy and particularly American red wine. While the opera was German, the music sings of liberty and justice, and the plot is particularly apposite in jailhouse America. For what it’s worth, …
sautéed sea bass, tomato/olive salsa, dill; braised fennel
It was a very hot afternoon, and the bass lying on ice inside the fisher’s plexiglas-top display case at Saturday’s Down to Earth Farmers Market on 23rd Street caught my eye. Even though we’d enjoyed some only 2 weeks earlier, it’s a fine fish and I knew I’d be able to cook these filets on …
spaghettoni with spring garlic, fennel, gold cherry tomato
I’ve decided to post a description of this simple meal because it, and an infinite number of variations of it, works so well as a refreshing break from dinners, or a series of dinners, centered on protein. one small spring fennel bulb from Alewife Farm, the stems removed, cut lengthwise into wedges, each piece retaining …
herb-marinated, breaded swordfish, sugar snap peas, mint
This rather simple meal was one of the best I’ve ever put onto a table. Both the fish and the vegetable were extraordinarily fresh, which is a great start, and I’d already worked with both of the recipes fairly often. Swordfish had been a favorite of mine since I was quite young (I can hardly …