Category: Featured

Pan Pizza Toppings
Featured, Lunch

Winter’s Freeze Calls For Skillet Pizza

If you are the owner of a well-seasoned cast iron skillet, you have the most important tool to make your own gourmet pizza in minutes with minimum fuss.  Who does not love the delicious, slightly blackened crusts produced by a wood burning oven and dream of creating them at home?  Most domestic ovens are not […]

Spiced Chicken with Honey Thyme Butter
Chicken, Featured

October Spice is Not All About Pumpkins

The spiciness of a dish is commonly judged to be the amount of palate-searing, eye watering pain inflicted by ingesting certain members of the chili family. If you are a fan of the “hotter is better” crowd, you can reference the Scoville chart, a points system that rates the pungency of every thing from the […]

swordfish & coconut rice
Featured, Fish

The Big Fish of Autumn

September is my favorite month on the North Fork. The days are still warm and relatively long, and it is prime season for catching and eating fish. I must admit my sportfishing is limited to dropping a pole in the bay and waiting for a silvery snapper to find its way onto my hook. These […]

August Picnic, Tomato Tart, Green Bean and Potato Salad
Featured

An August Picnic

I have always loved picnics, even when the reality falls short of expectations. My romantic notions of dining al fresco, have survived numerous forays on windswept British beaches, with sand scouring our faces and invading the sandwiches. Enduring buzzing flies and angry wasps on a soggy river bank could not dampen my enthusiasm for eating […]