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of red food, and dinner, December 12, 2009
Categories: Meals at homeIs it just me, or are there for sure a lot of pink-to-red-to-purple foods around at this time of year? Over the last several weeks I’ve recently seen, prepared and served at home, in addition to tuna, of course, the usual meat suspects (including the smoked or cured) and the red or purple berries and…
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dinner, December 9, 2009
Categories: Meals at homeHuevos Flamencos, a Spanish dish of chorizo, morcilla (chorizo from Chelsea Garden of Eden, morcilla from Despaña), onion, red and green peppers, garlic, tomato sauce, Pimentón de la Vera – dulce, dry sherry, and eggs, sprinkled with sauteed bread crumbs and baked in cazuelas wine: Spanish, Alaia – Dehesa de Rubiales 2006 Castilla Y Leon…
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Thanksgiving dinner, November 26, 2009
Categories: Meals at homeMany weeks back some friends of ours in Brooklyn had invited a dozen people to share Thanksgiving with them. We were very happy to be included, but our hosts’ plans had to be canceled only days before the event because of a death in the family. Our fallback was to prepare a dinner at home. …
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dinner, November 21, 2009
Categories: Meals at homeWhen it includes meat or fish I usually serve the main course of a meal with only one, possibly two vegetables, both for simplicity and to concentrate attention on complementary choices I hope I’d chosen judiciously. On Saturday night however, I had a larder slightly swollen after a splurge with the bounty of the late…
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golden cherry tomatoes, tomatillos, lovage
Categories: Meals at homeI’ve recently discovered that there really is life beyond salsa for the lowly tomatillo. The other day I found myself with some golden cherry tomatoes which really had to be made a part of a meal before it was too late. I happened to check out the crisper drawer in the refrigerator at just about…
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dinner, October 27, 2009
Categories: Meals at homeI’ve always been fond of skate, and it probably has little to do with the fact that I’m surprised to learn over and over again just how much the taste is unlike that of most any other fish. But it does, and it is. Prepared along the lines of an old Mark Bittman posting…
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dinner, July 18, 2009
Categories: Meals at homeI assembled a simple, very inexpensive meal last night using ingredients found in the refrigerator for the first course (including sliced air-dried beef remaining from the night before, and some hard-crusted two-day-old bread). The radishes had come from the Greenmarket, and I was able to include their tops (which usually have to be tossed out…