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culotte, garlic flowers, savory; seared okra, chilis; salsa
Categories: Meals at homeMaybe I was thinking just steak and okra would be too white-bread. In any event, I had this big beautiful yellow/orange heirloom tomato which was aching to be a part of this meal, so I decided to turn it into a salsa. It became a problem when I added some jalapeño, even a really, really small…
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bluefish ‘greek style’; boiled young potato mix with savory
Categories: Meals at homeThe very fine basic recipe runs like a reliable thread through every appearance of this delicious dish I’ve been calling, ‘Bluefish Greek style’, but slight variations in the ingredients always make it seem new. It also seems to taste better every time, and I don’t think anything more can be asked of a recipe. *…
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rocco’s pizza, the one with the sausage and broccoli rabe
Categories: Meals at homeI don’t cook every night, and not even every time we eat at home. We’ve usually ordered pizza on those nights, but it’s always very good pizza, rotating among several favorite ovens. On Thursday we had been at a performance in south Williamsburg until fairly late, but not too late to order a home delivery…
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scallops, garlic flowers; amaranth; eggplant, garlic, herbs
Categories: Meals at homeThese images, and especially the plates, are still looking a little pink, since I haven’t yet fixed the wiring on the 100-year-old overhead fixture in the breakfast room (I turn up the light at dinner only for the photographs), so I’m using a 100-year-old gooseneck lamp in the interim, which apparently has a rosy reflector.…
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porchetta; penne with scapes, wild tomatoes, garlic flowers
Categories: Meals at homeIt was a pasta night, but there was a first course, because I had thought the rigatoni I had in mind would be relatively insubstantial, although in the end that seemed not to be the case; but also because we love Principe porchetta. The pasta would have satisfied a vegan; the antipasto was a different…
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fennel/chili-crusted tuna, garlic flower; artichoke provençal
Categories: Meals at homeIt was delicious, the tuna possibly the best either of us had ever had, and I think it was a pretty sturdy Mediterranean meal, even if the description hadn’t occurred to me until we had sat down to enjoy it. The recipe is from Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, found in their book, ‘Italian Easy’; Recipes…
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smoked chili/lemon-roasted pork chop; potatoes; radicchio
Categories: Meals at homeThe entrée was a pair of simple pork chops. I’d prepared them almost the same way for many years, with slight variations in seasonings, but what pork chops they turned out to be! I hadn’t been able to locate small chops in the Union Square Greenmarket for months, and at first I was disappointed again…
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pasta, corn smut, alliums, chili, oregano, fennel, pinoli, herb
Categories: Meals at homeIt came as a total surprise to me. I don’t really buy much corn of any kind, but on my first day back at the Union Square Greenmarket after a month away one of the first things I spotted was a striking small stack of huitlacoche-covered ears of organic corn in Tyler Dennis’ Alewife Farm stand.…
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marinated/breaded swordfish; potatoes, dill; romanesco
Categories: Meals at homeMost of the time, a single entrée plate with several different things on it, will offer two or three different experiences, and occasionally even more, but once in a great while, at least in my experience, they will all come together as slightly different aspects of a whole. This is what happened last night, with…
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buffalo filet steak au poivre; cherry tomatoes; haricots verts
Categories: Meals at homeIt was the first meal I’d cooked in 24 days. We had returned from Berlin on Wednesday, the day before, too late for a visit the Union Square Greenmarket, and naturally there was nothing fresh in the kitchen, so we ordered a good pizza from one of our favorite kitchens. Our next local market day…