Salt-baked Celery Root with Smoked Duck, Pickled Grapes & Brown Butter Vinaigrette

Salt-baking vegetables, like celery root (often called celeriac), is a sneaky way to retain all the moisture inside a vegetable. It traps the juices, creating a seal so the vegetable “steam bakes” in its own juices. Once the celery root is salt baked, it is then tossed with a brown butter vinaigrette to drive home…

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Bonticou Ducks

Why did the chicken, duck and goose cross the road? To get to Bonticou Ducks It started as a quintessential Hudson Valley day. Picture this. Hugging the narrow curves of the winding Stone Ridge Mountains, I arrived at an orchard to meet a farmer. This is not just any farmer. Her name is Polly Gregor…

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Cherry Glaze Quail with Grilled Radicchio & Grains of Paradise

Cherries signal that summer is officially in full swing! I try to use cherries as much as possible before cherry season ends. One way of preserving cherries is to turn them into a glaze. The traditional method of glazing cherries is called a gastrique, which is a sweet and sour sauce. I’ve been a sucker…

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