This piece is the latest of a series of drawings/paintings I started since I moved to Brooklyn. The previous ones will be published in Aljibar II poems by Pierre Joris published by Editions Phi, Luxembourg.
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Spätzle & Côtelettes
Spätzle, Lamb Chop & Salad
Spätzle? Oui, oui… and I love them. Alright, not very French, but who’s French here? Pyrenean Gascon mountain girl comes first! So that works for the lamb…Humm! what about the Spätzle? I certainly never had them in the Pyrenees.
I acquired then via more Luxembourgish and Germanic influences. There are simple, delicious, nutritious & cheap to make.
This recipe fed me two meals:
First meal: spätzle with sautéed bacon and lots of fresh grated Parmesan cheese
Second meal: with pan fried lamb chop cut in from my local Turkish butcher.
Batter: 1/2 cup whole wheat flour, 1/2 cup white unbleached flour –i could have used only white flour–
Salt/pepper/nutmeg/parsley/1 egg/ 1/4 cup of water or enough to dilute it to a paste, and voilà the batter is ready
My set up at the stove
How to do it: I dump small amounts of dough in boiling water
Once they come up to the surface, they are cooked! I drained and reserved them
I sauteed some onions & bacon
Returned the drained spätzle to the pan, mixed them in and also added a little water to loosen up all stuck juices at the bottom of the pan…I really didn’t want to loose these “sucs” (not suck, i will have to explain “sucs” another time, remind me if i forget or if you really want to know, send a comment!)
Served with generous fresh grated parmesan cheese and fresh ground pepper
But the best was two days later:
I reheated the left over over Spätzle in the cast iron pan in which I pan fried 3 delicious lamb shops. I complemented it with my favorite –and famous– simple green salad. The video for the green salad is available at:https://www.nicolepeyrafitte.com/cooking/cookingmemorabilia.html. It’s a segment of the cooking show: “Voilà Nicole!” (Producers Joseph Mastantuono & Nicole Peyrafitte). More info on that will be available very soon at: http://voilanicole.com/
Voilà pour aujourd’hui! Please send comments.
Weekend collectages
A recipe & my favorite walk
1- The recipe:
Petit Poulet aux Légumes
or
Little Chicken with vegetables
for 2 people or 1 with left overs!
Once I coated the pan with olive oil, I golden the salted and peppered chicken on both sides
I reserve the chicken on a plate before sautéing 3 slices of bacon, 1 small onion, 1 carrot, 1 small turnip, 4 green onions, 1 russet potato. The choice of vegetables was instructed by I had in my fridge. Really other things can be added like olives, celery, parsnip…even cabbage. Add one glass of white wine.
The chicken returns on top of the veggies…
and goes into a preheated over (350º). I have a very convenient pan, I can remove the handle (merci Joseph & Yoori!)
Covered with the lid and I let it be for 20/25 minutes
I removed the lid and let the skin brown (in the oven) for a few minutes
Voilà! Mon Petit Poulet aux Légumes is ready.
I fed myself two delicious dinners.
The second day even better than the first. The potatoes have come a little apart and thicken the sauce.
2-My Favorite Walk
Along the Verrazano Narrows see pictures & map below:
Back to Sunday March 3 2008
Sunday March 2 2008 I went to pick up a piece of my art work that was part of the show Generation 6 at the A.I.R Gallery in Chelsea NYC. Pick up hours were 8-11 am. The day was bright, a little chilly but beautiful, so I decided to get there early (9am) by subway and to walk back via the Brooklyn Bridge to then meet my friend Douglas for brunch in Park Slope. We had brunch at a small Oaxacan Mexican (the highlight was the chipotle chili hot cocoa) and then off to the Park Slope Food Coop –where I am one of the 14000 members– for my food shopping.
Below the map of the walk and you can listen to the song I wrote on the Brooklyn Bridge on my Myspace
Test ride on Friday
Got to my yoga class & food coop run biking today. I thought it was spring, well not quite! but managed to beat the rain.