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crab cakes on a tomato salsa; buffalo labneh, herbs, spices
Categories: Meals at homeThe original dinner plan was to pick up some good wild salmon at Chelsea Whole Foods, but when it came time to do so I didn’t feel like going out, even to the corner, having just finished doing several loads of laundry early in the evening. There was a package of two crab cakes inside…
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‘nduja toasts, za’atar; pasta, grape tomatoes, mint, lovage
Categories: Meals at homeI don’t know how to characterize this meal, but it was delicious. a few ounces of ‘nduja, a classic Calabrian spreadable salumi (“loosely based on the French andouille introduced in the 13th century by the Angevins” – Wikipedia) now made locally by Rico and Jill of Walnut Hill Farm in Pawlet, Vermont, and available in…
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labor day lunch, no picnic
Categories: Meals at homeLabor Day lunch. The September date on which the U.S. and Canada celebrate Labour day (Labour Day) was chosen to avoid the putatively un-American leftist, socialist, communist (and, not incidentally, Haymarket massacre*) associations of May 1, the day on which the rest of the world still honors labor, laborers, “..the class demands of the proletariat, and..universal peace”,…
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seared buffalo steak, lemon, thyme; seared peppers, za’atar
Categories: Meals at homeWhile we’re not vegetarians, last night’s meal marked only our fourth meat entrée in over a month of dinners. This one, presenting local water buffalo steak, was a little out of the ordinary, and very, very tasty. two 9-ounce water buffalo rib eye steaks from Riverine Ranch, rinsed and patted dry, seasoned generously with our local…
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fennel/chili-paved tuna grill, zaatar; cress; grilled lauki, mint
Categories: Meals at homeEarly yesterday afternoon I went out to the Saturday 23rd Street Chelsea greenmarket, but only to pick up some parsley and mint. Most of the time I would go there I would get seafood, but we’d decided to play it loose with dinner arrangements. We were going to be in the Whitney Museum at least…
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shark, onion/wine sauce, pericón; eggplant, tomato, mint
Categories: Meals at homeI’m calling it summer shark, even though it was being labelled “sand shark” at the Greenmarket (it’s also called ‘dogfish’, in some places; ‘rock salmon’ in the UK, ‘saumonette’ in France, and ‘palombo’ in Italy), but whatever it’s called, it’s been impossibly delicious each time I’ve prepared it. This time the vegetable was terrific as…
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mackerel, tomato/caper/epazote salsa; potatoes, lovage
Categories: Meals at homeIt’s a magnificent fish. Oily or fatty fish is richer in flavor than other finned seafood, ‘fishy’, meaning it has a stronger flavor of the sea (I love the sea), an extremely healthy choice, usually sustainable, and often relatively inexpensive. Fresh is essential, and very fresh, as these 2 fillets were, can be awesome. Mackerel…
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rigatoni di gragnano, aglio e olio, ma con timo fresco
Categories: Meals at homeThis meal almost didn’t happen. It wasn’t clear we were up to a full dinner until moments before I began cooking. What did it was a proposal for the simplest of pastas, aglio e olio, and then I went and threw an herb into it. Simple; perfection. three plump still-fresh/juicy cloves of ‘Nootka rose’ garlic from…
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baked cod, potato, smoked chili, tomato; corn on the cob
Categories: Meals at homeThe small ears of corn were a little larger than the last time I had served them, which pleased me at first, but it turned out both a plus and a minus. Larger ears, it had seemed, would be a good thing, although I can’t say exactly why I had thought that. It did mean that…
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tomato bruschetta; lemon pork chop; sautéed bitter melon
Categories: Meals at homeAlthough I hadn’t anticipated any problems earlier, once I had started to put it together, this meal turned out to be a bit of a challenge. Without doing any research on it, I had decided to buy a vegetable (I think it’s actually a fruit) that I seen showing up in the Union Square Greenmarket…