Our weekly recipes will be focusing on sandwiches this year – sandwiches interpreted in the broadest and loosest sense, including tartines, flatbreads, rolls (some fairly classic, some breaking all the rules) plus all kinds of quick-pickles, fixings and sandwich fillips. This week: herb-butter from scratch for your radish sandwiches. Choose the most additive-free cream you can find, grab a handful […]
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Opening Day is May 21st. After seven lovely years at Peg Noonan Park, our ship sets sail. And our new berth seems to be….the Marina! We are working with the Town of Falmouth on the details
Read moreFreshfield Farm is selling baby potatoes, delicious for salads, or steamed and daubed with butter and parsley. Here’s a different way to cook them. These small potatoes—they have to be small– are cooked and smashed into jagged discs, then roasted to a crisp. Like fries, you’ll want to eat them with steak and salad. Like fries, you may want to […]
Read morePeas will soon be a thing of the past. One last recipe for snap peas, because it’s irresistible, and easy-peasy. Snaps on The Grill Sugar snap peas, untrimmed, stalks left on Olive oil Sea-salt or other crunchy salt Wash and dry snap peas, but leave on the stalks. Toss in a bowl with just enough oil to make them glisten. […]
Read moreBesides ice cream, Thomas Jefferson had a passion for peas. He was quite competitive about his pea-growing. So in his honor, a pea recipe: Peas in a puddle of milk 2 cups shelled English peas or fat shelled sugar snap peas 2 Tbs. unsalted butter 1 cup milk (approx.) sprigs of mint salt and pepper Shell peas. Melt butter in […]
Read moreCut 1 stick unsalted butter into 8 pieces and let soften at room temperature. Add 2 tsp. chopped fresh rosemary leaves (or a rosemary-thyme mixture) and 2 fresh sage leaves, chopping everything as fine as you can. Mash butter with herbs and season with crunchy Kosher or sea-salt. Pack into a crock or ramekin. Cover and refrigerate if making ahead. […]
Read more¼ cup sugar 2 cups washed sliced local strawberries 2 Tbs. lemon juice Put sugar in a small pan with a scant ¼ cup of water and bring to the boil. Cook, stirring, till sugar dissolves and you have a simple syrup. Wash, hull and slice enough juicy red strawberries to make 2 cups. Place strawberries in a blender […]
Read moreCut 1 stick unsalted butter into 8 pieces and let soften at room temperature. Mash with 2 Tbs. finely chopped parsley and 1 tsp. or so of finely grated tender garlic scape (or smidge of grated garlic clove.) Add a squeeze of lemon juice, a pinch of finely grated lemon zest, crunchy salt. Pack into a crock, cover and refrigerate. […]
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Lettuces are at their peak. Delicious in salads, of course, but mysteriously good, too, kissed quickly by heat. Halve and grill them on the barbecue, on a stove-top grill pan, or even on a hot well-seasoned cast-iron pan. It only takes minutes – what you’re aiming for is a range of color and flavors, from outer char to still crisp […]
Read moreNon-stop rain fell on last week’s market, hours and hours of it, soaking shoes and chilling bones, but Carrie Richter from Peachtree Circe Farm was not complaining. “We need the rain,” she said. Dig down a few inches into the soil, and fields are quite dry. We like a sunny attitude on what felt more like a bad day in […]
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