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haddock, oyster mushrooms with capsicum, lemon; greens
Categories: Meals at homeIt was a beautiful balanced meal, beyond the picture, and it included a delicious real Chablis and a fascinating 100-year-old mystical opera that could have been written yesterday. The haddock was really fresh, and with more than a little luck, I managed to cook it perfectly; the mushrooms also ended up just right, that is,…
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greek-style roast chicken, sorta; roasted potatoes, mustard
Categories: Meals at homeIt was a pretty splendid entrée, even without the full Greek treatment it was supposed to get, meaning I didn’t have any feta cheese on hand. And without the feta, I felt I felt I would be excused for including an element I thought was not Greek, halved roasted potatoes, specifically the 4 orphan la…
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porchetta, wild cress; burnt orecchietti, shallot, espelette
Categories: Meals at homeI’m becoming fond of porchetta, although serving it doesn’t leave me any room to exercise my cooking skills, whatever they may be. slices of Piacenti roasted porchetta (5 ounces) from Eataly Flatiron, drizzled with a little good Trader Joe’s olive oil wild cress from Lani’s Farm dressed with the same olive oil, Maldon salt, freshly…
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sautéed grey sole with lemon, cress; roasted carrots; kale
Categories: Meals at homeThese beautiful grey sole fillets came from Rick Lofstad’s Pura Vida Seafood, whose colorful 55′ fishing vessel, ‘All For Joy’ (which was presumably his flagship), had capsized on the Sunday before I purchased them at the Union Square Greenmarket on Friday. Earlier today on this blog I wrote about the incident and my huge respect for…
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Captain Rick has lost ‘All For Joy’; it could’ve been worse
Categories: Meals at home“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;“ The extraordinary, and very precious privilege of enjoying our phenomenal local wild seafood was brought home to me again yesterday afternoon, along with one aspect of its precariousness, . Captain Rick Lofstad, a third-generation Long Island fisherman, along with…
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porchetta, ricotta, wild cress; reginetti, radish, pea shoots
Categories: Meals at homeAnother weekday meal with a real first course. Well, my reasoning was that because there had been only 12 ounces in the box of good pasta, and I had already used around 8 ounces in another meal, I had only a few ounces left, too few, I thought, to suffice for an entrée, so I…
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ricotta, focaccia; basil-filled scallops, micro mustard; kale
Categories: Meals at homeIt was to be a very simple meal that I could almost do in my sleep, because we had a guest, and there was going to be some serious discussion about some future construction in the kitchen. I expected to be pretty distracted, but I managed to put together a pretty tasty meal. It turned…
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smoked fish pâté; rigatoni, shallot, chili, celery, olives, pinoli
Categories: Meals at homeI’m leading this post with an image and a description of the second course from last night’s dinner, since in the last few days I’ve already written – twice – about what was basically the same appetizer, except for the greens that accompanied it. Yes, it was very, very good; Tuesday’s meal marked the final…
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smoked seafood pâté; seared porgy, herbs, lemon; greens
Categories: Meals at homeI had bought two packages of smoked fish salad at the Union Square Greenmarket on Saturday, thinking we’d need that much for 4 people, but we only opened one of them that night. The 2 of us would share the contents of the other container on Monday and Tuesday. a composed smoked fish salad, or pâté,…
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lemon/habanada/celery pork chop, potato; roasted chicory
Categories: Meals at homeI had decided early in the day on Sunday that I would prefer cooking a dinner with meat that night to one with pasta, since I had a good supply of both vegetables – and small, or micro vegetables as well – since more of them could be incorporated in, as it turned out, a…