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Burrata with Fancy Roasted Peppers

When people talk about roasted peppers they often mean charred over a flame, then steamed, to facilitate peeling the skin. In contrast, these really are roasted, with just a spoonful of aromatics inside each pepper (sautéed sliced garlic, an anchovy, a few fragments of black olive, and a sprig or two of fresh oregano or thyme). The result is intensely flavorful squishy-soft peppers that genially…

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Gone Fishin'

Gone Fishin’

Hi, Everyone – I hope your summers are going well, or at least as well as they can be in this strange hard season.

Jody and I have taken a week off to visit with our kids, so I thought I’d revisit this late summer salad. It’s colorful, tasty, and my favorite way to eat summer squash.

Forgive me if this is the second email you’ve gotten from WordPress about this dish – an excess of…

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TOMATO PHYLLO SHEET PIES WITH CINNAMON, HONEY AND OREGANO

When Jody was a girl and her parents had a cocktail party, she and her sisters were pressed into service, given trays of hors d’oeuvres and asked to circulate among the guests. As we were discussing how to arrange some of the final shots for this post, Jody produced a small wooden tray, then darted out the kitchen door and returned a moment later with some nasturtium blossoms from the garden,…

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#Filo #Phyllo #ricotta #savory #tomatoes

Roasted Okra with Guanciale, Peppers and Anchovies

Squint at this dish of roasted okra with guanciale and peppers and you might mistake it for an Italian bagna cauda.Except that okra doesn’t register on Italian culinary radar. Which is not to say that it can’t work with an Italian sensibility. Think of this as American trying on an Italian sport coat. Unexpectedly, things fit. The okra is packed with flavor from roasting with guanciale, (just as…

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#anchovies #okra #slime

Seared Scallops with Garam Masala Creamed Corn

Sweet corn and fresh scallops regularly spend a couple of weeks together in summer recipes. Why would anyone presume to intrude on that? But garam masala is the understated change of pace that reminds you why the main ingredients are so good rubbing shoulders in the first place, the kind that makes you ask, “What was that? When is it coming back?”

The great Desi* migrations of the 18th and…

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#corn #cream #garam masala #scallops

TRAHANA WITH TOMATOES, FETA AND A LITTLE SPICE

It’s rare for us to encounter something completely new and utterly delicious. Such is trahana, a traditional Greek starch somewhere between a grain and a straight ahead pasta. I’ll let Jody tell its story.

Trahana is a small pasta found in the cuisines of Greece, Turkey (where it’s called tarhana) and various other places throughout Southeast Europe and the Middle East. It’s made by mixing…

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#feta #garlic #tomatoes #trahana

Blueberry Scones with Lemon and Rosemary

Blueberry scones in the summer time are like apple pie in the fall – not to eat either in season is to relinquish a small part of your humanity. When I was photographing Jody at Rialto cooking classes I always showed up ahead of time to “check the lighting,” but after shooting the same place at the same time of day the only thing to check were the three trays of scones sitting on the bar to…

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Summer Feast - Steamed Littleneck Clams, Slow-Braised Tomatoes, White Beans and Garlic Scape Aioli

Summer Feast – Steamed Littleneck Clams, Slow-Braised Tomatoes, White Beans and Garlic Scape Aioli

Don’t let the fact that our summer feast has four separate recipes scare you off. The prep is fast and simple and boiled down to it’s essential components the dish is beans, slow-braised tomatoes, clams and mayonnaise. Think of them as old friends, coming from different parts of the world and finally uniting for a meal on Cape Cod after the pandemic. Like those meals to come, if there were ever a…

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#beans #clams #garlic scapes #littlenecks #mayonnaise #sbts #scapes #slow-braised tomatoes

Potato and Sugar Snap Pea Salad with Kimchi Mayo Dressing

Baked potatoes with butter, sour cream and kimchi are a house favorite and the inspiration for this salad. I’m sure I began adding kimchi to baked potatoes after eating rice with spicy pickled cabbage on Korean Zen meditation retreats thirty-five years ago. My refrigerator has rarely lacked a jar of kimchi or gojuchang ever since. I introduced our children to kimchi early and Roxanne, after…

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#kimchi #Potatoes #sugar snap peas

Rhubarb Vinegar Chicken

I’ve wanted us to do vinegar chicken for awhile and Jody, who can never see a lily without thinking of three different ways to gild it, suggested we invite rhubarb. Fine with me, as long as it didn’t make my mouth turn inside out. She also knows that I’ll eat rhubarb in just about anything – Rhubarb and Rose Upside-Down Cake is one of my favorite desserts.

As I was editing the photos for…

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#chicken #rhubarb #thighs #vinegar

ORZO WITH FARM GREENS, RICOTTA, PARMESAN, PECORINO AND HOT PEPPER

Unless you’re raised in a family whose culinary life embraces orzo, in all likelihood you will encounter orzo some distance down the pasta road, way past stops that include string pasta, lasagna, or fresh anything. Anyone can easily image 5 things to put on top of linguini, but What do you do with orzo?

Here’s the answer – Orzo with Farm Greens, Ricotta, Parmesan, Pecorino and Hot Pepper.…

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#Greens #orzo #Parmesan #Pecorino #ricotta

CHERRY COMPOTE, RICOTTA-ROSEMARY MOUSSE, ALMOND SHORTBREAD

A few years ago during a cycling trip in Sardinia, we fell in love with simple desserts that feature ricotta. I think Jody’s heart was still in Sardinia for this treat, but her head was in England, imaging fruit fools, simple summer concoctions of whipped cream layered with whatever fruit is in season. The result is a cherry compote topped with a rosemary ricotta mousse, accompanied by some…

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#almonds #cherries #ricotta #rosemary #shortbread #whipped cream

Closed

The Garum Factory is closed today to mark the passing of George Floyd and to acknowledge what animates so many people protesting right now: George Floyd did not have to die.

Jody and I have been reading and listening and – when invited – helping. We didn’t curate the list which follows. We know about half the books. Our children, by contrast, have read most of the works on this list and…

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Swordfish with Olive Salmoriglio

Crossword puzzle aficionados will recognize Nobody ever told me as a familiar clue. The answer is LAMEEXCUSE. That’s all I can offer for why I didn’t recognize the orange slab of swordfish Jody brought home for this week’s blog. It’s called pumpkin swordfish – new to me – and the jack o’lantern color results from a diet heavy in shrimp and krill. I wish I could say that there’s an echo of…

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#broil #pescatarian #salmoriglio #swordfish

Cheddar and Chive Soufflé

This is your chance to make your first soufflé. If you screw it up – and you probably won’t – and who’s going to complain? We’re in lockdown. A few months or a year from now you can whip one up for a special night. Then, Jeez, who knew you could make a soufflé? Plus it has tons of Parmesan and cheddar in it.

As a young man I toiled in a fancy French restaurant as a back waiter. This meant…

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#soufflé

Baked Scrod with Yogurt Mayonnaise

Salt and pepper scrod, smear on the yogurt-mayo combo and throw it in the oven. Wait a bit, then add a pound of asparagus (two pounds works too), just so you don’t have a meal that’s white fish on white plate with white sauce. Ten minutes of prep, half an hour while everything cooks – wango-tango and Bob’s your uncle – there’s dinner. We didn’t bother adding a starch because we had a loaf of…

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#baked seafood #haddock #mayonnaise #scrod #yogurt

Fresh Pasta Bow Ties with Lemon and Pistachio

Fresh Pasta Bow Ties with Lemon and Pistachio Cream Sauce

Long ago and in a galaxy far far away – Emilia Romagna, 2019 – a band of happy cyclists with Il Tourissimo spent an afternoon at Casa Artusi, the famous cooking school in Forlimpopoli devoted to l’arte di mangere bene, the art of eating well. Eating well, in the Casa Artusian worldview, includes preserving and teaching the traditional arts of handmade pasta.

Each of us was matched with his or…

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#cream sauce #fresh pasta #lemon

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