Weekend Food Porn: Tomato Tartare and Osso Buco
Saturday was a vacation for me. I ate at home. Carrie and I made dinner for friends. She made a tomato tartare, based on the recipe from Michel Richard's cookbook, Happy in the Kitchen, and I made osso buco with risotto alla Milanese, based on recipes by Mario Batali and Mark Bittman.
The tomato tartare, with its shallot dressing, performs a classic Richard trick: It fools the eye into believing the dish is something that it's not, beef tartare in this case. (The photo above doesn't do justice to Carrie's dish; her initial presentation was gorgeous, but we were so eager to dip into it that we forgot to snap pics until four or five bites in. Did I mention wine was involved at this point?) The appetizer does share one thing in common with its meaty cousin, though: It goes down so damn easy.
I bought the osso buco from Wagshal's Market, and they were beautiful, two-inch center-cut chops that even I couldn't screw up that much. Photo after the jump.
Photos by Angela Potter
5:54 pm
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4:04 am
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Sorry... forgot to say great post - can't wait to read your next one!
9:03 am
Where did you guys find good, flavorful tomatoes this time of year?
9:49 am
We didn't. We found only half-decent hothouse tomatoes at Whole Paycheck.
10:05 am
I was just ready to put the braises away for winter. Now all I can think about is jumping into that photo with a tiny fork and pulling out that delicious cylinder of marrow.
11:47 am
Mmmmmmm.