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breakfast during the plague: still good, for now
Categories: Meals at homePretty standard, although not easily identifiable, are the Aleppo pepper, the Baden seasoning salt (the gift of a friend who had been given the recipe, whose ingredients included sea salt, 5 different seasoning peppers, plus dehydrated vanilla, lemon and lime, by a chef in Baden-Baden), plus the basil on the tomato and the thyme on…
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‘comfort food’, and maybe the best pasta alla gricia ever
Categories: Meals at homeThis ancient, iconic, but very simple Lazio dish, ‘pasta alla gricia‘, has been one of our favorite pastas, for many reasons, for decades. Thursday night we enjoyed one of the best ever, thanks to some guanciale I had been keeping in the freezer, an excellent Neapolitan rigatoni, which is a wine from outside that great…
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sautéed sea bass, chili mushrooms; endive, balsamic butter
Categories: Meals at homeThis blog has been silent for two months, so I can’t blame my neglect on the plague abroad in the land today. Going forward however, I’m going to invoke the impact of the coronavirus as at least a part of the explanation for why these posts ae going to be more abbreviated than they were…
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grilled lamb chops, habanada/thyme parsnips, cabbage
Categories: Meals at homeSo perfect, and so delicious, and it’s also so very easy to arrange both. four lamb loin chops (1.21 lbs) from Shannon Brook Farm, dried thoroughly, cooked on a very hot enameled cast iron grill pan for about 5 or 6 minutes on each side, seasoned with salt and pepper after they were first turned…
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tuna after “I Like Tuna Cooked, Not Raw” Dave Pasternak
Categories: Meals at homeI borrowed the recipe from David Pasternack, who’s known for his his love of raw seafood, and in particular crudo, something I can share with him, although mostly only as a concept, but the title of the New York Times article where I found it is, ‘THE CHEF; I Like Tuna Cooked, Not Raw‘. So…
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sea bass with mussels, tomato, saffron; tardivo, rosemary
Categories: Meals at homeSurf and surf. There wasn’t enough sea bass left in the bucket at the market, so, beating Paul to the punch this time (he usually asks, “anything else?” even when I’ve already selected 2 full portions of something, I added a bit of shellfish that had also been harvested from our local waters. It’s now…
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bresaola, wild cress; tagliolini, rock shrimp, chili, fennels
Categories: Meals at homeIt was New Years Eve, so in our tradition there would be a delicate meal which included seafood in some form, and/or maybe an equally light pasta. This year it was both, with some excellent local bresaola substituting for the more common first course of oysters. Some wonderful bresaola (2.5 ounces) from Salumeria Biellese, a…
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pan roasted chicken; roasted fingerlings; heirloom tomato
Categories: Meals at homeChicken in our pot, to hail the eve of the eve of the new year. Wonder of wonders, we were still able to include fresh local tomatoes in the celebration (and they were not to be the last). four fresh 6-ounce thighs of their Cornish Cross breed from Cascun Farms, purchased at Eataly Flatiron, seasoned…
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lightly dressed chèvre; seared duck breast, brussels sprout
Categories: Meals at homeIt was a beautiful Sunday dinner, pretty minimal for all of its luxuriousness. The first course began with a delicious fresh spreadable local chèvre. chèvre from Lynnhaven Farm mixed with a little chopped lovage from Two Guys from Woodbridge, drizzled with a bit of Greek olive oil, a terrific seasoning salt (the gift of a…
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coppa; creste di gallo, garlic, seasoning pepper, red kale
Categories: Meals at homeIt was the day after a feast. It may have still been some people’s holiday, but we went easy on December 26. There was a beautiful first course of an excellent salume. slices of copa DOC Piacentini from Flatiron Eataly drizzled with Greek olive oil, ‘Demi’, produced in Laconia, Velles, in the Peloponnese, and bought from…