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côtes de veau braisé*; pommes de terre et chicorée rôties
Categories: Meals at homeLast night I returned to my ancient, well-thumbed and lightly-sauced 1966 edition of Julia Child’s, ‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1’ to help me decide what to do with a cut of meat I don’t think I have ever prepared before. The result was really delicious, although it was very different from my current…
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coriander/fennel-rubbed grilled tuna; tomatoes; bok choy
Categories: Meals at homeThe 3 most basic food groups: fresh, local, good. All 3 had them. one thick tuna steak (15 ounces) from Pura Vida Seafood Company, from which I had first cut off a 6-ounce section to freeze for later use, rinsed, dried, halved, tops and bottoms seasoned with sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper and rubbed…
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‘vesuvio’ pasta with ramps, smoked duck, thyme, parmesan
Categories: Meals at homeThey were the first ramps I’d seen in the Greenmarket, and it wasn’t a day too soon. In fact it seemed they were more like 14 days late, judging by my Food Blog records over the years. The pasta was also a treat, and the smoked duck breast was sublime. The mix of those 3…
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broiled sea perch with anchovy; boiled potato, chives; rabe
Categories: Meals at homeI love this fish in so many ways. This may have been my tastiest broiled sea perch with anchovy, ever, and there have been a lot of them. Here they are still inside the fishers’ bucket at the Union Square Greenmarket: Unrelated: I think freshwater perch (Perca flavescens) would be even more popular than it already…
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grilled scallops, sautéed oyster mushrooms; wilted kale
Categories: Meals at homeThe scallops were delicious (unless you really mess up, it’s almost inconceivable that scallops could not be delicious), but the mushrooms were really, really good. I can’t account for that success; I’ll have to leave it as one of the mysteries of non-mechanized cooking. [update: I just realized that, in reading my account, the last…
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marinated grilled goat chops; chili-roasted fingerlings; rabe
Categories: Meals at homeIt’s probably a dead giveaway of the really modest size of some of the farms whose produce we enjoy in our local farmers markets that I couldn’t assemble 4 goat chops of the same cut when I was shopping in Union Square recently. No problem however, as I welcomed the chance to show a little…
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bluefish ‘greek style’, basil; red mustards; crusty baguette
Categories: Meals at homeI don’t think I could say bluefish is my very favorite finned seafood, but it’s somewhere near the top, and, besides, it’s never boring. Occasionally a special variant comes to the market and the love affair begins all over again. I’m talking about the catch of quite small fillets I found at the Union Square…
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oregano-roasted squid; boiled potatoes, chives; lacinato
Categories: Meals at homeI must have appeared flummoxed. Warren said I should have the squid. The fisherman was right. We love squid [58 results show up on this blog], it had been a while since I’d served it, it was definitely very fresh. preparing it as I do is a pretty low key operation, and it was delicious.…
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seared duck; mushroom marsala; roasted la ratte; cabbage
Categories: Meals at homeIt seemed like a great excuse to modify what has long been my routine preparation of seared duck breast. I had some mushrooms left over from the night before, and combining them with the duck seemed like a fine idea. The execution however wasn’t perfect for either duck or mushrooms, nor for one of the…
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whole grain reginetti, green garlic, olives, chili, red mustard
Categories: Meals at homeCrumply, curly things. It would be something light, to follow a rich dinner the night before. But I didn’t know what I was going to cook until a few minutes before I started, except that it would include one of the interesting dried artisanal pastas we have in our larder (actually, it’s a former closet…