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dinner, March 22, 2010
Categories: Meals at homeThis was the last dinner to include any ingredients from the modest cache of fish, meat and vegetables I brought home from the Greenmarket last Wednesday. I planned the meals in an order related to the perishability of the individual parts of the larder I had gathered that day. On Monday I had finally gotten…
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dinner, March 21, 2010
Categories: Meals at homeIt may be difficult to assemble a meal from a “greenmarket” at this time of year, but it’s not impossible. All of the major ingredients of the main course of this dinner were purchased in Union Square last Wednesday, March 17. one roasted small (14 oz.) rack of goat from Lynn Haven Dairygoats of Pine…
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dinner, March 1, 2010
Categories: Meals at homeRoberto’s grissini pan-grilled young goat loin chops (purchased from Uphill Farm, in Clinton Corners, New York, at the Union Square Greenmarket) which had been marinated an hour or so in a tempranillo wine, with chopped garlic, rosemary, bay leaf and peppercorns, and finished with drops of lemon, oil and chopped parsley; accompanied by oven-roasted potato…
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dinner, January 1, 2010
Categories: Meals at homeI had originally planned a slightly more extensive meal for New Year’s Day, one which would have begun with a terrific-looking and sounding terrine of game, pink peppercorns and ginger. I had purchased it at the Dickson’s Farmstand Meats in Chelsea Market the same afternoon I picked up their rolled lamb belly, which was also…
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dinner, December 31, 2009
Categories: Meals at homeAlvin Langdon Coburn The Octopus 1912 Sicilian oil-cured olives and Roberto’s grissini Italian-packaged Carpaccio de Piovra (pressed and thinly-sliced octopus) purchased packaged from The Lobster Place in Chelsea Market, on a Salmoriglio-type sauce of salt, lemon juice, dijon mustard, pepper, balsamic vinegar and oil, some of the sauce sprinkled on a mixture of radicchio and…
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dinner, December 26, 2009
Categories: Meals at homeSomething in the way of a palate cleanser, and kitchen-pressure release valve as well: Tonight, after a couple of days of feasting, it was back to basics, as we enjoyed an extremely simple, southern Italian meal, one with whose honest outlines we’re both very familiar. In an odd exception from meals we’ve enjoyed over the…
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dinner, December 25, 2009
Categories: Meals at homeI had originally intended to finish with a quince purée the small rack of venison I had gotten from Ottomanelli this week, but I had been misinformed about the availability of quince this late in December. Learning the truth only the day before yesterday I quickly decided to use pears, one of the alternatives suggested…
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dinner, December 24, 2009
Categories: Meals at homeBarry and I don’t really celebrate Christmas, or any other god-based holiday, but we can’t help cherishing some of the trappings of the ancient Christian feast days kept by our families while we were growing up. Holiday meals are probably the most important survivors of his and my early conversions to irreligion, and those associated…