Monday 23
July
We picked
up a local canteloupe and some fresh borlotti (cranberry beans) at the Farmers'
Market on Saturday. We had the
first with some shavings of Schad's ham (so still local) as an appetizer
tonight.
Dora was
fascinated by the borlotti, as she is by all vegetables. The August issue of Bon Appetit had a recipe for them; their recipes are usually crap, but this was by the chef at the famous River
Café, so we gave it a try.
We
quartered it, and scanted the oil, but at the end it was another dud. It used too much water, so we had to
drain the beans, fish out and mash up the garlic and sage leaves, remove the
tomato skins, and boil down the sauce to repour over the beans with rosemary
oil. It would have been easier to
do all this in the course of preparing the dish (with water to barely cover).
As a
finishing touch we took a can of albacore tuna, drained it of water,
re-anointed with oil from an anchovy can, flaked it, and mixed it into the
beans. The resulting dish was not bad, but our version is far
easier; and we're
glad the Bon Appetit subscription (which was forced on us in place of the late lamented Gourmet) has finally expired.
No comments:
Post a Comment