potatoes – The Spamwise Chronicles

Potato Snapshots

Roasted Mixed Fingerling Potatoes, with Nuoc Mam Sauce and Scallion

Warm Fava Bean and Chanterelle Mushroom Salad

If you’ve never had fava beans before, you’re seriously missing out on a seasonal treat that’s only available around this time of year. Fresh fava beans are a hallmark of […]

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Salad Snapshots

cooking

Italian Potato Salad

The spring equinox is supposed to be in three days, but you’d never know it based on the weather this past weekend. It snowed briefly on Saturday, most of which […]

food

Monday Snapshots

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Adirondack Blue Potato and Beet Salad

If you’re just joining us, the first thing you should know is that this is not the blog of a vegetarian. What this is, is the personal journal of someone […]

cooking

Patate e Porri

This is a winter version of Fagiolini e patate, one that substitutes leeks for green beans in the linked recipe. If you don’t have leeks, you can use other winter […]

cooking

A Winter Greenmarket Dinner (2012)

This post originally ran on January 25, 2012. I thought I’d reblog it so that folks can see that even meals using ingredients from your local farmer’s market in the […]

autumn

What You Need

Poached farm egg over sautéed spinach, shiitake mushrooms and rocambole garlic, with roasted Yukon Gold potatoes There’s no real recipe for this plate, or as I like to call it, […]

autumn

Greek Lemon Potatoes — Take #1

I tried to come up with something pithy to say about the pile of shredded chicken on the plate below, and failed. The potatoes on the other hand, were a […]

food

Sunday Snapshot

Green beans and potatoes complement each other deliciously. This makes a simple vegetable side dish, or with the addition of perhaps eggs and cheese, can easily stand in for a […]

American cuisine

Saturday Snapshots

When you have a fabulous farmer’s market such as the one at Union Square Greenmarket, sometimes you have to make it your life’s mission to celebrate all of its myriad […]

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Wednesday Greenmarket Gallery

Three more weeks until the summer solstice, wherein we’ll celebrate the longest day of the year. Carpe diem, for there’s no time like the present to revel in spring before […]

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Tuesday Snapshot

Poached wild turkey egg, with cumin-spiced potatoes, spinach and heirloom tomatoes

cooking

Sardines with Bread Crumbs

Americans aren’t used to eating fresh sardines and anchovies, which is a shame. The difference between a fresh sardine or anchovy and their canned equivalents is literally night and day. […]

American cuisine

Salad for Dinner

Sometimes “rabbit food” is what you want for dinner. *wink* Spring lettuce salad with salt-and-vinegar Roseval potato chips, roasted shallots, hard-cooked farm egg and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese

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