Home Cooking Snapshots

I have a backlog of posts to write, but a combination of late nights in the office and blogging blues have kept me at bay. Hopefully I’ll be able to get to a few later this week.

In the meantime, here’s a gallery of some recent meals and some shots I took at my farmers’ market. As usual, clicking on any of the tiles will bring up a slideshow of high-resoluton photographs.

Insalata di uova e carne (“warm salad with bacon and pancetta”). It’s different from a salade lyonnaise because the pancetta was sautéed in olive oil with minced shallots, then beaten egg was added and lightly scrambled before combining with the greens.

Fried pork sausage.

Bacon.

Radishes.

Plums.

Celery braised in butter and wine.

Green beans and wax beans with Middle Eastern herb sauce.

Foraged icicle radishes.

Carrots.

Ricotta cheese crostini with shaved white truffle.

Caramelized fairy tale eggplant and heirloom tomatoes.

Miniature pumpkins.

Potato gnocchi with sausage ragu.

Miniature pumpkins.

Onions.

Spaghetti with sausage, tomatoes and lentils.

Corn. They’ll be gone in a week or two.

Heirloom chile peppers.

Poached Scottish salmon, with lacinato kale and shallot-herb mayonnaise.

Ricotta cheese, Seckel pear and honey.

Radishes.

Deconstructed “BLT sandwich” — salad greens, bacon, hard-cooked egg, croutons fried in bacon drippings, shallot-herb mayonnaise, tomato confit, mustard vinaigrette.

Autumn market greens.

Oeufs mayo — hard-cooked egg, shallot-herb mayonnaise, heirloom tomatoes and salad greens.

Brussels sprouts, ricotta cheese, Seckel pear.

Mise en place. Clockwise from upper right: mustard vinaigrette (2 tablespoons white wine vinegar, 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard, pinch of sea salt and black pepper, 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil), chopped parsley, pancetta, a ramekin containing one beaten whole egg seasoned with sea salt and black pepper.