Grilled hangar steak; chard w tomatoes; roasted eggplant & garlic puree seasoned w smoky pimenton picante. Midweek market dinner. 🍽️ #foodsky #cooking

Maitake mushroom pizza. Made some pizza dough with that new flour. 85% hydration. Did a side by side w some of my usual pizza dough…new one was sooooo much more chewy crust. Really really good. Still adjusting to the flour but I’m really liking it so far. 🍽️ #foodsky #pizza

Focaccia made w Migrash Farms Bolles 60 flour. My first go w this flour and wow! 90% hydration & I could/should have let it proof longer than the couple hours I did. Light, spongy, flavorful. Quite pleased w the result can’t wait to go further down this rabbit hole. 🍽️ #foodsky #breadsky #baking

Grilled hangar steak w Spanish adobo; black lentils w garlic scapes, shallots, tomatoes; butterhead lettuce. Delicious market dinner, summertime flavors. 🍽️ #foodsky #cooking

Rhubarb gin cordial ‘26 is bottled! Much better color than the ‘25 vintage. Ready for beach week in July! 🍽️ #foodsky #coctails #gin

Snuck off to a half week at the beach. Been a good recharge.

Funny how a couple of stray links always find the grill after I make a batch of sausage. Forgot how really good my chicken Provençal is. Three different grinds for texture and the herbs do the rest. Needs just a dollop of aioli to make it near perfect. 🍽️ #foodsky #cooking #sausage

Chicken Provençal sausage. No pork, full of herbes de Provence, a wonderful summer griller, taste like roast chicken and is part of this month’s grill pack special. Looking up my old recipes is really making me smile these past couple weeks. 🍽️ #sausage #foodsky #cooking

I call this one Spicy Spanish, a cross between a hot Italian and Spanish chorizo fresco. Was fun making it again. Layers of flavors with a little kick and is part of my summer grill pack, if you’re in the DC area you can order it. More info in the June newsletter bit.ly/43sMHhX 🍽️ #foodsky

Nothing like a proper martini (original intent) on the back deck while grilling dinner. 🍽️ #foodsky #cocktail #martini

Pizza. Goat ricotta, garlic scapes, maitake, olive oil. Simple. Spring. (the maitake really crisp up for a nice texture) 🍽️ #foodsky #cooking #pizza

Rhubarb season means it’s time to make rhubarb gin cordial. 2026 vintage is in the bucket! 🍽️ #foodsky #cocktails

Made osso buco yesterday, left it in fridge overnight in order to peel away the excess fat congealed on top. Reward will be an epic sauce. Mmm, the jiggle in this ‘demi’…oh and while peeling off the fat I ate the marrow from each and every shank in the pot. 🍽️ #foodsky #cooking

We celebrated Mother’s Day w a picnic lunch at our local brewery. Beautiful afternoon with some tasty bites and beers! Saffron egg & pea blossoms on piquillo peppers; curry lamb, koshihikari rice, garlic, fermented tomato, dates, almonds, cilantro, celery, orange. 🍽️ #foodsky #cooking

Grüner & Albariño are 2 of my fav spring wines & my 3rd pairs well w grilled foods (esp chicken) Check it out in this month’s newsletter plus an easy green goddess recipe which will come in handy when garlic scapes hit the market later this month. Link> bit.ly/3RjPUxa 🍽️ #foodsky #cooking

Market dinner. Grilled hangar steak, king oyster mushrooms, asparagus, roasted baby beets, goat milk feta, spring mix. Shrooms were slathered w chive butter when they came off the grill. 🍽️ #foodsky #cooking

Fresh bread and a batch of chive blossom-green garlic butter. 🍽️ #foodsky #breadsky #cooking

Made a fun spring lunch for a group of 12 this week: -Ramps deviled eggs w ramps salt -Red rice salad w asparagus, pea shoots, spring onion, lemon vinaigrette -Smoked salmon mascarpone & mortadella, apple, ramp butter tramezzini -Armagnac prune cake w cheesecake ice cream 🍽️ #foodsky #cooking

Mr October

Not quite done w ramps yet. Today was ramps chicken sausage and ramps goddess dressing (w mascarpone & kewpie 😎) Just one small-ish bundle left to go! 🍽️ #foodsky #ramps #cooking

Beautiful weather today for back deck apéro before cooking dinner. Rye, Byrrh, Carpano Dry, Luxardo cherry. 🍽️ #cocktail #apero

More ramps stuff from the weekend. Ramps focaccia and pesto. 🍽️ #foodsky #cooking #ramps

Next up, took an herb bread recipe I love & made it with ramps instead 😎 🍽️ #foodsky #bread #cooking Swapped ramps for the parsley, onion, garlic in the original & used a different flour, also upped the ramps to 1C. No ramps? The pane al’erbe is still delicious and easy. Recipe: bit.ly/48aCLMB

First up, ramps compound butter. Made a kg of it today, loaded w ramps. 🍽️ #foodsky #cooking My easy recipe can be found in here: bit.ly/4sFXqzx Enjoy!

Ramps season! First batch cleaned and ready. 🍽️ #foodsky #cooking #spring

Sunday market dinner. Hangar steak w jus, lightly sautéed spinach & grape tomatoes, roasted crispy maitake mushrooms. Delicious. 🍽️ #foodsky #cooking

Pizza night! House sausage. Can’t beat it. (Yes there was a pepperoni pie as well) 🍕🍽️ #foodsky #pizza

Need a good stuffed, roasted leg of lamb for Sunday (or any other day)? My recipe for one is in this month’s newsletter, link in bio. Enjoy and happy Easter! #foodsky #cooking #lamb 🍽️

Red snapper w orange zest fennel pollen rub & saffron cilantro mayo, spinach & couscous. And some Cloudy Bay sauvignon blanc. #foodsky 🍽️

Supposedly, it’s national cocktail day…like we need an excuse on this timeline. Anyway, Negroni. Rhubarb gin, carpano antica, campari. Cin cin! 🍽️ #cocktail