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Roasted Radicchio, Mushroom, Potato, and Manchego Cheese Gratin

December 28, 2014 by Sheila

Roasred Radicchio, Mushroom, Potato, and Manchego Cheese Gratin

Lewis, my harshest critic, loved this casserole!!! Can we even call the above a casserole? Resisting any food snobbery, we’ll leave it as named, a meal in a baking dish. Until the taste reveal. The German Butterball potatoes really made this dish. These potatoes were freshly dug at Rosie and Dan’s Swallow Hill Farm. Yukon […]

Filed Under: Casseroles and Gratins Tagged With: bechamel, gratin, manchego cheese, Mornay sauce, mushrooms, potato, radicchio, roasted, shallot

Composed Salad

November 19, 2014 by Sheila

Composed Vegetable Salad

This photo is over the top! First I think Mardi Gras, then I’m looking for the vegetable man a la Giuseppe Arcimbold. Still, I wanted to share this because parts of this salad were purchased at Green Thumb Farmstand in Southampton, NY. Yes, I actually got out of Upper Black Eddy and had a whirlwind […]

Filed Under: Eggs, Salads, Vegetable Main Dishes Tagged With: baby spinach, carrots, composed salad, edible flowers, eggs, farm market, greens, hard-boiled eggs, onion, potato, potatoes, radicchio, red onion, snap beans, Southampton, spinach, string beans, sweet bell pepper, The Hamptons, tomato, tomatoes, vegetable salad, walnuts, Watermill Center

Fresh Cranberry Beans

September 27, 2014 by Sheila

Cranberry Beans

They are so pretty, until they’re cooked. Then the sweet speckles and swirls of cranberry-red on a cream background turn to a dull, unappetizing grey or light-brown. We’re not even going to discuss the excitement caused by the hot-pink pods. If you don’t believe me, just do some recipe/image searching and you’ll find numerous pictures of […]

Filed Under: Beans, Peas, and Lentils Tagged With: cranberry beans, fresh cranberry beans, fresh shelling beans, radicchio, sage, shallot, shelling beans

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