Fall Recipe – Page 7

Eggplant-Arugula Sandwiches

October 8, 2009 Comments Off

Before the killing frost, make sure to pick up some readily available eggplant and arugula. I bought my eggplant at the biggest organic farm stand in New York, McEnroe’s in Millerton. It’s firm to the touch with shiny purple skin. The arugula is from my back garden, now a little leggy and spicy and but […]

September Salad

September 20, 2009 Comments Off

Simple, but surprisingly good. I scissored garden arugula, young and lively, then added chives, which sit in a pot outside my kitchen door, diced Cortland apples from neighboring Taft Farms and young farmers market carrots. They all got a toss in olive oil and a hair of salt, just to coat, and then a light […]

A Locavore’s Perfect Weekday Pasta

September 16, 2009 Comments Off

Orecchiette and Broccoli Rabe with Cherry Tomatoes Opposites attract. And so today, as summer meets early fall, I’m celebrating the play of sweet and bitter. This dish pairs broccoli rabe, a tangy relative of the turnip, with candy-like cherry tomatoes. They mingle happily on neutral turf — orecchiette, a pasta translated as “little ears,” which […]

Applesauce to clean by…

September 13, 2009 Comments Off

I hate to clean, don’t you? Smell, and so naturally taste is my most alert sense. So, I find it helps to clean to the simmering of something fragrant. This year our apple tree, bought when we escaped Manhattan, finally yielded a great crop. They’re funky, of course, because of the rain and lack of […]

Tangy apples and corn pudding

September 11, 2009 Comments Off

So the apple season has arrived — crisp and tart, mouth puckering. I try to resist the early apples, because they don’t have that biting fall flavor, but rather Paula Reds do the trick. If anyone is out there yet, let me know what varieties do it for you…. Tomorrow I’m going to a friend’s […]