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.

Quinces.

Miniature pumpkins.

Cranberries.

Plums.

Potato gnocchi with sausage ragu.

Spaghetti with sausage, tomatoes and lentils.

Foraged icicle radishes.

Warm chicken liver and green bean salad, with garam masala.

Green beans and wax beans with Middle Eastern herb sauce.

Pork sausage with black truffles, roasted figs and chanterelle mushrooms.

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.

Caramelized fairy tale eggplant and heirloom tomatoes.

Radishes.

Bacon.

Celery braised in butter and wine.

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

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

Onions.

Ricotta cheese, Seckel pear and honey.

Sautéed chanterelle mushrooms.

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

Brussels sprouts, ricotta cheese, Seckel pear.

Fried pork sausage.

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.