monday night menu: arugula

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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Seared Beef with Pan Juices; Baby Arugula,Truffle-Lemon Vinaigrette, and Crispy-Fried Shallot; New Potato Gratin with Rosemary and Great Hill Blue

potato. cream. blue cheese. rosemary.

arugula. lemon. olive oil. truffle oil. shallot.

beef sirloin steak. zinfandel. butter. shallot.

Friday, April 4, 2008

Flank Steak; Baby Arugula; Roast Potatoes with Caramelized Onion Aioli

arugula. vinaigrette.

beef. wine. onion. rosemary.

white potato.

egg. olive oil. onion. lemon.

Friday, January 18, 2008

Braised Lamb; Roasted Root Vegetables; Arugula Salad

arugula. dijon-shallot vinaigrette.

celery root. carrot.

lamb shoulder chop. red wine. garlic. rosemary.

monday night menu

Some people play golf, or knit sweaters, or collect Elvis postage stamps. I'm a cook. At some point I stopped buying cookbooks and started buying cooking books, stopped looking up recipes and started reading about how and why. These days, thanks to a crew of family and friends who were very good sports while I was working out the kinks, I actually sometimes feel like I might know what I'm doing.

I started taking pictures, and then I started working on my presentation so the pictures would be nicer, which made me want to work on my photography so the presentation effort was worth it, and before I knew it I was blogging about my dinner on a Monday night. And here we are.