Feeding as Tenderness

A sweet Modern Love piece in the NYT today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/fashion/27love.html?pagewanted=1&ref=fashion

Roasted Tomato Sauce with Serranos and Olives

Farmer and the Cook is my favorite place to stop for groceries for dinner.  The combination of surprise fresh ingredients from the farm, combined with the limited selection always constrains me just enough to create something new and unexpected.

(For a Vegetarian Version, use maybe Capers instead of anchovies and leave out the Worchestire Sauce)

1. Heat Oven to 400.  Core and Slice the amazing tomatoes in half and put on a cookie sheet. Rub olive oil on the faces and grind pepper on top.  Put in oven.  Start a pot of salted water and bring to a boil.

2. Meanwhile, mash up some cloves of garlic, mince up some anchovies and serranos.  Mash together into a paste.

3. Meanwhile, mince up some red onion and chop up some parsley.

4. Meanwhile, use a small knife to carve the flesh away from the pits of the delicious green french olives from the Paradise Pantry that you happen to have in your fridge.  (Olivia also has some homemade olives at FnC).

5. Meanwhile, toast some pine nuts.

6. When tomatoes seem done, remove from oven and pour into a bowl, mashing.  Heat olive oil in same pan you toasted the pine nuts in, and once hot, throw in the anchovy paste till fragrant (about a minute).  Pour mixture into tomatoes and stir.  Add some balsamic vinegar and a little Worchestire Sauce (this was the a surprise "thought" tonight).  Add the olives, onions and parsley and stir.

7. Put the egg tagliatelle pasta into the boiling water and cook for 4 minutes.  Drain and add to sauce.  Stir to combine.   Serve with pine nuts scattered on top.  We added Parmesan too.

Mark Bitman Cornmeal Pancakes

I adore Mark Bitman.

Tonight I watched his video on how to make cornmeal pancakes.

Here is the article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/dining/02mini.html?_r=1&ref=dining

I will be trying this and reporting in.