It is unequivocally spring around here, and every day it’s as if there’s something new to savor: longer days, warmer weather, the trees finally budding back to life and offering some gorgeous color. I try to keep reminding myself of this while I’ve been struggling with some writer’s block recently for a variety of reasons…
Tag: lamb
Crispy-skin chicken thighs and lamb koftas with lemon-tahini sauce, or two of my newest weeknight meal favorites.
As creative as we like to get in the kitchen on weekends, I have to admit that we are pretty susceptible to falling into dinner routines (or ruts, depending on how you look at it) on weeknights. If work is keeping us really busy it becomes much easier to stick with what we know and…
12.18.10: dinner (Tuscan lamb ragu)
And just like that, we’re back to braises and ragus. The persistent, unseasonable chill that has defined most of December has certainly driven our desire to tuck into bowls of warm foods, as evidenced by many of our recent posts, but I have yet to tire of any of them. I’m sure by late January…
12.12.10: dinner (chili served in a china bowl makes it fancy)
This weekend was a slightly melancholy one, I don’t know why. General crankiness, weird weather, who the hell knows. Regardless, Sunday night we needed some therapy, and at the suggestion of the lovely Mrs., I made some flipping chili. And that was that. I made lots of chili in grad school, I even won the…
12.05.10: dinner (braised lamb with tomatoes and peppers over toasted fideos)
I saw the first flecks of snow while in Stamford, waiting for the 6:57 clutching a box of penne alla puttanesca and a little bottle of Cabernet Sauvingnon, all the while cold and thankful for the real pashmina that my best friend had gifted her bridesmaids back in July. Though winter is still officially eight…
09.25.10: dinner/antojitos (latino nuevo cuisine and memories of New Haven)
There are days when I really, really miss New Haven. Up until we found an amazing fish shop in Hell’s Kitchen I fiercely lamented not having a shop like #1 Fish Market in North Haven, and of course I longed for a nice glass of wine and some tapas at Barcelona. But Barcelona was not…
09.05.10: dinner (ancho-braised lamb tacos)
“I want to braise a tongue and make tacos like the kind we had at La Esquina,” Michael said to me on a grey and slightly unseasonably cool Sunday. My mind immediately goes back to the Friday a week prior and us leaning against an outdoor counter while wolfing down various tacos and remembering in…
04.11.10: dinner (Moroccan lamb stew).
Every once in a while Elizabeth uncovers a food gem in some online repository of recipes. When something lights up her attention, she gets so excited that we have to make it immediately. Whenever lamb is involved, I’m usually right there behind her.
03.20.10: dinner (Greenmarket goodness thanks to sunchokes and the springtime).
The darling Mrs. posted the secundi piatti first and the prima second, but with good reason. If you lived in the Northeast, you may remember that the weekend mentioned in the title was a delightfully sunny respite from the drenching rains that serving as soaking bookends, the second of which we are finally clearing now….
02.21.09: Viva Roma!
The cold New England winter months makes the prospect of curling up on the couch with a great movie and dinner extremely appealing, but it’s an idea that can benefit from a little creativity. So Elizabeth proposed the idea of watching Frederico Fellini’s masterpiece 8 1/2 and making dishes hailing from around Rome, as a…
The Manhattan [food] Project 