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monkfish roasted with potatoes, olives, bay; frizzy mustard
Categories: Meals at homeThis is a pretty familiar entrée for us, but we never get tired of it. The greens were a little novel, but they made for a side dish almost as plain as one could be. Although I’ve served it even more simply, not introducing it to any heat, I thought that this time it would…
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squid/conch salad, arugula; toasted orecciette, mustards
Categories: Meals at homeThe antipasto was ‘prepared food’ (prepared by the wife of our local fisherman), with the addition of a bit of greens, and the locally-made pasta that followed only needed a little working, and that too included a bit of greenery, as local as that which had accompanied the sseafood salad. eight ounces of a squid…
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lamb shank, onion, balsamic, wine; greens; Drama; Wagner
Categories: Meals at homeOoh. I picked this entrée because of the weather forecast. I thought we’d be enjoying 3 hours of their awesome cooking smells in addition to relishing the consumption of these two very rich, slowly-braised locally-sourced lamb shanks, together with the considerable delight of being snug inside during an early March snow storm. The snow turned…
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haddock, pom pom mushroom/lemon/butter sauce; mizuna
Categories: Meals at homeThere was mustard. But so much more. I found the haddock first (I almost always head for the fish stands before looking at anything else), and then, while looking for vegetables, I spotted a farmer new to the Union Square Greenmarket: She was offering a beautiful selection of mushrooms, along with 5 different sizes of…
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coppa dolce, sunflower sprouts; whole wheat pasta, 2 kales
Categories: Meals at homeNo, you’re not seeing double. Only a few days ago we had begun a different meal with an antipasto using almost all the same ingredients as those seen above, so it was probably a good thing that I led that post with the Marx Brothers rather than this wonderful salume. The only variation, and because…
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chicken braised in butter, tarragon; sweet wilted kale, garlic
Categories: Meals at homeThere was chicken in the pot last night. Well, parts of chicken. As I tweeted last night, near the end of this delicious simple meal, that doesn’t happen here very often, and, repeating something else I wrote, meals with chicken as good as this make me question my judgment. I worked with the simple outlines…
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coppa, arugula; baked cod, potatoes tomato; frizzy mustard
Categories: Meals at homeLike 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…
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bay scallops, lemon/cress; sunflower greens; purple potato
Categories: Meals at homeSomething of a study in contrasts, with a green theme running through it, but it was also a late-winter dinner with a balance of two very different elements entertained by herbs that are normally associated with warmer seasons. We liked it a lot. one tablespoon of olive oil and 2 tablespoons of butter heated in a…
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the extraordinary event of the loaves and the bivalves
Categories: Meals at homeOnly 5 clams per serving. I was surprised, even with the help of some good bread and the somewhat creative recipe I found on line, that I could transform 10 small clams into a delicious meal for the 2 of us on Saturday night, . I want to call it the extraordinary event of the…
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bacon & eggs, purple lettuce, smoked scotch bonnet, other
Categories: Meals at homeBacon and eggs, with the traditional diner ‘salad’, only here the lettuce is dark purple. In another break from counter custom, the freshly ground black pepper was supplemented this morning with a bit of a freshly crushed smoked chili pepper. the breakfast ingredients included very fresh eggs from pastured chickens and bacon from pastured pigs,…