Salad greens with asparagus, homemade salt-and-vinegar potato chips and hard-cooked egg.
Tag Archives: seasonal and local
Oyster Mushroom, Bacon and Heirloom Potato Salad, with Fresh Wild Turkey Eggs, Pea Shoot Flowers, and Herb Vinaigrette
Spring is such a lovely season because of the progression of produce at the farmer’s market. After months of heavy, stodgy, starchy meals such as hearty soups and stews, the things we eat change to lighter fare such as this salad which celebrates the height of the season in all its glory. I’m honored to …
Sunday Brunch
If you’re ever able to get asparagus as thin as this: it demands that you treat it as simply as possible. Follow that commandment and you can’t go wrong. Roasted asparagus and tomato salad 6 spears asparagus, trimmed and cut into 1/2″ pieces olive oil sea salt 1/2 tomato, cut into 1/2″ dice 1 teaspoon …
Smoked Bacon with Wild Mushrooms and Spinach
Would you believe this takes half an hour to make? Smoked Bacon with Wild Mushrooms and Spinach
Monday Snapshot
Linguine with spinach and ricotta — spinach and garlic sautéed in unsalted butter, cooked linguine, cow’s milk ricotta cheese, extra-virgin olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic chives Adapted from this New York Times article by Mark Bittman. Click here to view a large-size version of this picture.
Red Leaf Lettuce and Heirloom Bean Salad
Red leaf lettuce and heirloom bean salad Click here for a high-resolution version of this picture.
Spring Vegetable Risotto
Asparagus is one of my favorite vegetables. It exemplifies spring, regardless of the weather. There are many varieties of asparagus available — thick, thin, green, white and purple. Wild asparagus has an enchanting flavor reminiscent of the color GREEN, in a way that cultivated asparagus doesn’t. Although the tips are the most succulent, the whole …
Tuesday Snapshot
Broiled flounder; pan-fried fingerling potatoes and asparagus with garlic and fresh oregano; white shallot vinaigrette Click here to view a high-resolution version of this picture.
Sunday Snapshot
Clams, ramps and potatoes Click here to view a large-size version of this picture.
Squid Ink Tagliatelle with Ramps, Fried Breadcrumbs and Pecorino Cheese
Yet another post involving pasta. I promise that there’ll be more than just pasta appearing on this here foodblog thingy sometime soon. The problem is that I never met a starch I didn’t like. 🙂 If you’ve been reading this foodblog for a while, you know that I’m a huge fan of ramps. Ramps (a/k/a …
