Because I already had enough vegetables on hand already, almost my only purpose in heading for the Union Square Greenmarket that day was to secure a seafood entrée for dinner. It had only occurred to me to also pick up oysters because, while still abed, I had seen the Blue Moon Fish Company retweet of a tweet about their …
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smoked sturgeon, gold beet; soft shell crabs, haricots verts
The table was awaiting the guests, but I had forgotten the genial service plates (very large, very shallow, very plain, clear glass) that I had found at a thrift shop long ago. Aside from the fact that this would be one of the first dinners we would be sharing with friends since the epidemic began, …
soft shell crab; tomato, pericón; squash, shishito, mint
Once in a great while, and only with certain meals, do I think it would be nice to have larger plates, although I really don’t want to go down that road. As I was arranging this one however, even I was taken aback a bit by how busy – and maximal – this entrée looked, …
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 …
soft shell crab; spring garlic cucumber sauté, mint; tomato
It was the eve of Barry’s birthday, so it had to be special! I had great luck in the Greenmarket that afternoon, and because the fish seller had a huge supply, they were marked down in price. The reader doesn’t have to be told how I transitioned 4 very alive local blue crabs (callinectes sapidus) onto our …
crab cakes on tomato salsa on wild cress; brussels sprouts
Almost a day off. This was a casual meal slipped in between some more ambitious holiday season dinners, and it was pretty much improvised; the idea was to give the cook a cook’s holiday, and to include elements or ingredients that had been inside the apartment for a while before they came close to the …
insalata caprese; black squid ink and crab pansotti
There’s a reason the antipasto insalata caprese [Eng. Caprese salad, or the salad of Capri] has become legendary. It’s extraordinarily delicious when the ingredients are the best. Also, mozzarella comes from the Campania region, as do, arguably, the best tomatoes in the world, and Capri has been a jewel off the coast of Campania for thousands …
crab cakes, tomato/beet salsa; herb/spice-dressed labneh
I knew there would be crab cakes, but everything else was pretty much thrown together minutes before we sat down. It was a greenmarket day, and therefore a fish day at our place, but I didn’t really need anything other than seafood, and I remembered that I had some really terrific frozen crab cakes that …
crab cakes, salsa, dandelion; potatoes, lovage, scallion
Crab cakes from the Union Square Greenmarket: They’re an invitation to improvise, incredibly simple to ‘cook’, and always delicious. The fishers were unable to bring anything to the market on Monday, because the intense cold had meant they wouldn’t be able to go out on the ocean, so I reached into the freezer for my small reserve …
squid ink fettuccine, crabmeat, chili, parsley, lovage, lemon
I had planned to put together only a plain pasta dish last night, although it might have included this squid ink fettuccine already in the larder, but while I was at Whole Foods to pick up milk and juice, I remembered they carried some decent fresh crab meat, from Virginia (which is not really so far down …