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Canal House Cooks Lunch
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We found these strawberries at our farmers’ market yesterday—the very first berries of the season and almost a month early. They are as sweet as candy with an aroma to match. We are making crea...

07 Mai 12

Time to start watching our waistlines, we are coming up on bikini weather. But it’s easy to say no to a burger with all this lovely young produce—little potatoes, a handful of green beans, baby...

03 Mai 12 1 person likes this

Today’s afternoon tea of our homemade melba toasts with potted crab, blue cheese with black pepper, smoked salmon butter, and anchovy & lemon butter. We are slathering it on!

02 Mai 12

Look what we pulled up from the little Canal House kitchen potager—the first radishes of the year. Guess it’s bread, good Irish butter, radishes, and a little Maldon salt for lunch. (If we get ...

01 Mai 12

We are at the eleventh hour of our Canal House Cooks Every Day book deadline. We forgot to eat breakfast so we wolfed down this early lunch of scrambled eggs with a “sauce” of tiny peas, ...

30 Apr 12 1 person likes this

We are on our annual local asparagus jag—we just can’t get enough of them. We buy big fat spears that we peel, then plunge into a big pot of salted boiling water for 3-4 minutes. We dress them ...

27 Apr 12

Today’s spring lunch—shoulder of lamb braised in white wine with onions and garlic, served with baby leeks, artichokes, and sorrel from the garden. And the hits keep on coming.

26 Apr 12 1 person likes this

The shad are running in the nearby Delaware River. The local asparagus are up. It’s time for one of our favorite spring meals—pan-fried shad roe with crisp bacon and asparagus with brown butter...

25 Apr 12

Hallelujah, for our first asparagus of the season—we’ve been dreaming of their green grassy flavor all winter long. We peel away the skin and little fins that hide grit and dirt, but leave each...

24 Apr 12

We’re getting to the bottom of the bins of winter root vegetables in our version of a root cellar. So for lunch on this cold rainy spring day, we roasted beets and carrots of rich warm colors—o...

23 Apr 12

We jumped the gun! BLT’s for lunch today with hothouse heirlooms. Right after lunch we’re heading straight for the confessional. To make up for our sin of eating tomatoes out of season, w...

20 Apr 12

We didn’t have much time to cook this morning, so we put a pork shoulder in a slow oven and let it cook itself. Six hours later, we’re having sliced porchetta with a pile of fresh beans d...

19 Apr 12 1 person likes this

Dandelion greens, fava beans, English peas, tiny beets, and pancetta are all tossed together—cooked and raw—with really good extra-virgin olive for today’s spring tonic salad. We feel better al...

18 Apr 12 2 people like this

The market was beginning to show signs of spring this morning. There were fresh peas, fat favas, fuscia stalks of rhubarb, and the word on the street is local asparagus have arrived. So it’s ri...

17 Apr 12 1 person likes this

Near record breaking heat today on this fine April day—it’s 88° in the shade but feels like 90°. We’ve opened all the doors and windows, moved the table canalside and are having an indoor...

16 Apr 12 1 person likes this

Our friend Andrew Abruzzese delivered his annual Easter Pie today. He learned the recipe and carries on the tradition from his Neapolitan grandfather Pasquale Platerote. So the beat goes on. His fami...

13 Apr 12

  It’s another chilly early spring day here in the northeast, just the way it’s supposed to be. We’re having a minimalist’s lunch today— a salad of spring greens and saut...

12 Apr 12

The grassy backyard was calling us this morning. We gathered young dandelion leaves and pretty little purple violets. Then from the garden we cut some tender lettuce. So though it’s too chilly ...

11 Apr 12 1 person likes this

Now this is a sure sign of spring: butter-braised peas and lettuce and trout from the D & R Canal that flows past our windows.

10 Apr 12 1 person likes this

Our friend, novelist Jill Kearney, stopped in for a post-Easter lunch today.We had some lamb chops leftover from the ham, so we pan-fried them and served them with little new potatoes and an escarole...

09 Apr 12

Skipped eating lunch today and took a long lovely walk along the canal instead. Saw the lacy trees wearing their sheerest, spring slips of green. Have a happy holiday—hippity hop.

06 Apr 12

Now into our fourth day of freezer/fridge diving, we discovered two angus beef with blue cheese, red wine, and thyme meat pies behind the bag of ice in the freezer. We bought them last winter from Sw...

05 Apr 12 1 person likes this

It’s day three of cleaning out the fridge. We had 2 bags of spinach in the vegetable drawer and some ricotta hiding behind a carton of milk—why not make spinach gnocchi? Annointed with sage but...

04 Apr 12 1 person likes this

Spring cleaning day two: We’re still working on our freezer. Buried behind quarts of homemade stock we found a beautifully wrapped cotechino. It defrosted overnight and today we simmered it in ...

03 Apr 12

We’re spring cleaning this week, starting with the freezer. The first thing that tumbled out was a bag of frozen baby peas. We conferred. We steamed them, then tossed the hot peas with meaty c...

02 Apr 12

Pan-seared pork chops with red peppers and capers are a lovely way to end the week. Cook something great this weekend.

30 Mär 12 1 person likes this

Today, a week before Easter, we had Thanksgiving dinner for lunch. We were shooting a holiday story, so happily, when we were finished there was nothing to do but sit down and tuck in—roast turkey, m...

29 Mär 12

For lunch today it’s a coil of parsley and parmigiano sausage from NYC’s Faicco’s Italian Specialties served with a mess of sautéed broccoli rabe. These two old friends complement e...

28 Mär 12

All the chives in our flower boxes have lain themselves over to keep warm and out of the frigid wind—o’ fickle spring. We are warming ourselves up with bowls of rich mussel scallion soup (with ...

27 Mär 12 2 people like this

A brisk, windy day called for some serious cooked food. It may be the last chance for something rib-sticking before we have to face bathing suit weather. So we cooked up a blanquette de veau, using ...

26 Mär 12

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