I'm not sure why I fell off the wagon with writing about my cooking (or, honestly, cooking) but it happened. Not that I haven't cooked in a year, I have ... and lots of lovely things ... but, well. Tomorrow is another day, and all, right? Let's try this again:
10/13 - comte cheese and white burgundy, with a salad of mache, avocado, pepitas topped with olive oil, salt, lemon juice. Simple but so good
10/12 - bluefish (in paper, with oranges and basil flowers), caponata, red wine & radicchio risotto
10/8 - Beef Bourguigone a la Julia Child, with boiled potatoes a la Sweden. Surprisingly good!
10/7 - Pork Scallopini Perugina, from Batali, with roasted acorn squash
10/5 - Corn chowder with scallops (before the fresh corn leaves the market)
With the new (SIX BURNER) Viking cooktop, double ovens (with convection!) and the gorgeous veggies from my CSA, I'm rediscovering the fun in cooking dinner.
10/14 - homemade mozzarella and self kneaded bread (hearthbread from Nigella) - we felt awfully virtuous!
10/12 - winter squash ravioli, pork loin porchetta, tangerine souffle
10/9 - roasted chicken, with lavender and thyme under the skin and a lemon in the bum, beet green risotto, greens in cream
10/8 - veal scallopini with roasted tomatoes and yellow wax beans with parsley emulsion
10/7 - chicken braised with figs over kale
10/6 - pistachio crusted pork with green chile rice
10/5 - leftovers pasta...repurposing of caprese salad and sweet italian sausage
9/30 - red thai curry pork with a mess of extra CSA veggies (eggplant, long beans, bell peppers)
break for Italy ;-p
8/24 - Red curry shrimp with eggplant and yellow squash, spicy green and crazy flat white local beans. The shrimp was such a great lunch the next day, too. :-)
8/21- Marinated skirt steak with a salsa verde so good I wanted it with a spoon and chilled cucumber soup with salt roasted shrimp (roasted over hot salt in a hot skillet - bizarre technique but it worked)
8/17 - Fried Green Tomatos!!! (we also ate a steak and corn and grilled lettuce, but the FGTs were the star!)
<insert huge cooking slacking involving, I don't know, summer? laziness? houseguests?>
7/31 - Rice/Shrimp/Squash salad at lunch (made the night before to develop flavor). Dinner plan is tri tip ribeyes (whatever those are, but they looked nice) and grilled hearts of romaine with a gremolata sauce
7/30 - Hodgepodge of things that sounded good: cold cucumber soup, steamed squash and bone marrow on toast
7/29 - Summer in a bowl: shaved squash, basil and oregano, boccocini tossed with hot pasta and olive oil
7/27 Homemade gravlax and sauce, oysters with migonette, oysters a la Uncle Bubbas (grilled with garlic and cheese and oh yes) All eaten at the counter in the kitchen at midnight, as such food should be
7/9 - More sockeye, this time with a wasabi/mayo/panko crust, and a side of cold soba studded with water chestnuts, green onions and mushrooms warmed up in sesame oil.
7/7 - Sockeye Salmon with honey and tarragon mustard, fennel with sweet lemon, spicy herbed squash and really warm from the oven peach cobbler. Mmm, cobbler!
7/6 - Ribeye vs. Top Sirloin matchup (ribeye won, hands down, if there was any doubt) with a grilled bread and tomato salad and the best corn on the cob Mike's ever eaten. Really and seriously. An entire meal cooked without the Viking? It is lonely, but it lives.
7/4 - Sonic. What better way to celebrate America's Birthday than a Route 44 Cherry Limeade at 10pm?
7/2 - Tacos a la Linda, with the ground beef and the corn fried tortillas and the healthy dose of childhood remembrance.
6/30 - Pork tenderloin with a gourmet BBQ seasoning from the overstocked pantry, done on Mike's NEW grill, Farmer's Market corn by way of our neighbor, cut off the cob and cooked with butter in the cast iron skillet and beans (also Farmer's Market) that we saw them 'shuck' in a fancy machine, boiled with salt pork. Mmmm hmmm. Good.
6/29 - Korean marinated steak stir fry, with yellow squash, which didn't match, really, but tasted good.
6/26 - Kale and sausage and a poached egg, over brown rice, in a bowl. This is a Nigella Lawson recipe, origianally, calling for real crumbly chorizo and no rice. We forgot to get chorizo but we'd bought fresh pork/sage sausage and well, why not. With a sprinkle of red chili flakes, we were pretty pleased. This has become a real standby dish for us, and it looks odd but one taste and you're hooked.
5/21 - Steaks topped with marrow, broccoli raab sauteed with german mustard
5/20 - Roast Chicken (oh yeah), sauteed beet greens with onion & cranberry, spicy chick peas with sorrel
5/19 - Arctic Char, broiled and topped with sorrel sauce (thank you, chez panisse), wild rice with mushrooms
5/15 - Szechuan Amberjack, spicy mustard greens, brown rice with soy butter
5/14 - Broiled pork with mustard/brown sugar glaze, sauteed spinach with goat cheese, refried roasted potatos
a michael david at flyte? damn...
i'm calling them now
and did someone say bone marrow?
lucious, perfection - last meal good...
Posted by: claudia (cook eat FRET) | 31 July 2008 at 18:27