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potato/chili/olive/bay-roasted lotte; pole beans with thyme
Categories: Meals at homeIt felt pretty wintry on Friday, so, yeah, fish and potatoes. But, hedging our bets on the season, there were also yellow pole beans. twelve or 14 ounces of scrubbed, dried, and thinly sliced red potatoes from Willow Wisp Farm, arranged, overlapping, on the bottom of a glazed earthenware oven pan, covered with 3 tablespoons,…
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german andouille, cranberry mustard; roast potato; collards
Categories: Meals at homeGerman creole cookery? Yes, and of course it was all good. Otherwise all I can think to say otherwise is how quickly Barry and I have become comfortable with the idea of traditional German cuisine melded with that of the deep south hundreds of years ago. I wrote a little about it in the post…
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sea bass, tomato/olive salsa, micro sorrel; radicchio, leeks
Categories: Meals at homeIt’s both a great fish and a luscious dish. Also, because of at least slight variations in the ingredients each time, starting with the kinds of tomatoes available, it never tastes quite the same. I think of that as a plus. the preparations began with a salsa, assembled about 30 minutes in advance inside a…
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marinated grilled octopus; potatoes, celery; sweet peppers
Categories: Meals at homeNeptune blesses our waters with an amazing variety of seafood, but the god has withheld one of my favorites. Supposedly there are no octopus anywhere within at least hundreds of miles of our own fishers, although I see links on line that suggest otherwise, so maybe it’s just that a demand isn’t perceived here. In…
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picanha, reverse seared; pan-roasted potatoes; radiccchio
Categories: Meals at homeLooks aren’t everything. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Good things come in threes. Red is good. I mean, to me the the picture looks good, and at least to anyone who might enjoy the kind of dinner it describes, it’s probably a fairly appetizing image. What it doesn’t show however is…
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skate wing, tomatillos, lemon mustard sauce; potatoes, rue
Categories: Meals at homeIt was delicious, even if the photo reveals it was a little colorless. I’ve usually used tomatoes, in fact usually bright red tomatoes, when I’ve roasted whole skate wings, and I did bring home some small golden cherry tomatoes that afternoon, but in the evening I remembered that I’d been hoarding some tomatillos, which are…
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crab cake on tomato salsa, with zhug; mustard kale, garlic
Categories: Meals at homeI didn’t get to the Union Square Greenmarket on Monday, so while I missed the P.E. & D.D. Seafood stall, that night I rewarded us both with a meal that included a pair of their crab cakes made inside their home by Delores Karlin, wife of fisherman Phil Karlin, that I’d defrosted earlier in the…
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lunch of consequence
Categories: Meals at homeAfter last week’s detour through a one-stop condiment arrangement involving some homemade Zhug, today I went back to assembling a lot of separate things in little bowls for our traditional Sunday bacon and eggs early afternoon meal. It was a lunch of consequence. It included, not necessarily in any order: 6 fresh eggs from pastured chickens, John Stoltzfoos’…
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prosciutto, arugula; pasta, alliums, habanada, micro kale
Categories: Meals at homeThere was a somewhat meaty first course and a vegan main, although since the flavors were so rich, Barry had to ask me whether meat had any part in the latter. It did not, so I think the suggestion of it came from the savoriness of the habanada pepper, the smokiness of the toasted pine…
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marinated, breaded Swordfish, lemon; kale/mustard, garlic
Categories: Meals at homeThere was nothing new in this entrée, except, I believe, for the greens, which were some kind of kale/mustard combination of which I didn’t get any description from the farmer the day I picked them up. They were quite sweet, and delicious, with much of the flavor of mustard, but with little of the bitterness…