Happy Birthday Indeed
- chicharrones
- house made english muffin with whipped pork fat
- fluke sashimi with buttermilk and poppy seeds
- english pea soup with crayfish and morels wrapped in yuma (must find yuma for home use!)
- smoked coddled egg with onion soubise, caviar and fingerling potato chips
- free form ravioli with snails, chanterelles, ricotta salata and ricotta blended with porcini milk,
- halibut with burnt onion quenelle, bok choy and pepperoncini puree (this was hands down my favorite-the combination of texture and flavor was perfect.)
- shaved foie gras torchone with pine nut brittle, lychees, and reisling gelee
- seared duck breast and thigh with fresh water chestnuts (infinitely superior to the canned variety-must find!) long beans, pickled cherries and bean sprouts
- arnold palmer sorbet with mint julep crumbs (a perfect nod to the south!)
- yellow cake ice cream (OMG- this was like cold lick-the-cake-batter bowl…I thought I might die of happiness) on chocolate cookies with rubarb and green pea soil
Everything was as good as, if not better than, the last visit. A great start to M’s bday weekend!
More from Methane Studios. Their concert posters are SO cool- M is a huge fan of their work. The ultimate fantasy birthday present: I’d build him a music room with storage for a million CDs, an awesome sound system and blank walls that he could fill with these posters. (and some shelves for his odd little trinkets.)
I love Methane Studios.
I have this t-shirt. It reminds me of the Eels song “My Beloved Monster.”
Wow. 15 minutes after I posted about the Ko dinner auction, I checked the website and scored a reservation for tomorrow night! I have been trying all month for M’s bday. It was meant to be!
Well, here’s one way to get into Ko if you have a couple thousand extra dollars lying around. (It’s for a good cause.)
One of the best covers I’ve come across in a while, and I’m always on the lookout.
Spoon does The Smiths, Panic
via: you ain’t no picasso
Quantity and variety are increasing! Some stuff I’ve never cooked with before…should be fun. The biggest challenge is using everything before it goes bad.
- arugula (used tonight in salad for picnic)
- thyme
- mixed baby lettuces
- kohlrabi (gotta figure out what to do with that one!)
- garlic scapes (!)
- dandelion greens
- something billed as Asian Spinach? Googling this leads me to a thing called Malabar spinach, but I’m not sure if it’s the same.
I think I need to start taking notes at pickup as the season progresses. My memory is not great and the CSA newsletter is rarely specific due to the nature of farming. I hate getting home with my produce and not knowing what I have!
Coming back from the Philharmonic performance in Central Park tonight, I could have sworn Tom Wolfe was walking up our street! Alas, it was just an unfortunate gentleman who had co-opted his style to an extreme.
So, this isn’t happening.
Boy George denied U.S. visa, can’t give NYC concert
(Bad tidings courtesy of Tracy, fab photo courtesy of AP)
