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Good morning. We had a nice day on the water final weekend, fishing for critters on the flats north and west of Big Coppitt Key in southernmost Florida. Dinner was going to be early, with a film, sleep and one other journey within the morning.
I made bulgogi on the grill subsequent to the orchids, beneath the palms. I cooked with rooster thighs as an alternative of beef, and grilled loads of them, so I may make use of the leftovers for lunch the following day: a bulgogi rooster salad slicked with mayonnaise, eaten with Fritos and seltzer, bobbing alongside in shallow water beneath a excessive noon solar, ready on the tide. It was a wonderful meal, and can be a beautiful factor to make this weekend. That rooster salad: Hoo boy!
Not that it’ll be 80 and sunny the place I really dwell. It requires help, to conjure the warmth, the sunshine and the excellence of a waterside meal with mates within the midst of a New York winter. A tall glass of ranch water (above) may do it: blanco tequila lower with lime juice and fizzy mineral water, a style of life alongside the Gulf of Mexico, wherever you keep. Try it in Utah, in Alaska, in shivery, down-east Maine, and also you’ll see. Wintertime can have its pleasures, if solely you trick it a little bit.
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Alternatively, you may steer into the season and provides this recipe for Detroit-style pizza a shot. It’s a rib-sticker of a pie, crusty-edged and sweet-salty, harking back to Sicilian pizza with out being in any means a Sicilian pizza. It’s extra muscular, forceful, one thing to eat when there’s soiled snow on the bottom.
Maybe you’d choose an enormous bowl of barszcz, the traditional wintertime Polish borscht with its clear, burgundy broth studded with beets and nuggets of beef. Or a winter squash and wild mushroom curry, a comforting stew that brings warmth and sweetness into the chilliest wintertime night.
Kale soup with potatoes and sausage? Chicken and dumplings? Mapo tofu? To finish practically the place I began, you might return to fantasyland and conjure a dinner out of the Bahamas: fritters of conch or crab or shrimp, with a spicy, thick dipping sauce of ketchup, mayonnaise, sizzling sauce and lime juice. Eat these with a chilly beer this weekend and picture sand between your toes and the promise of tailing allow on the morning’s falling tide. Summer’s coming ultimately.
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Now, it’s actually nothing to do with allspice or duck confit, however that film we watched whereas consuming our bulgogi in fish camp? Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan at the hours of darkness, violent “Seraphim Falls,” from 2006. It fails the Bechdel Test so completely that it’s as if it had been made on a guess.
You ought to learn “The Art of Change” by Calvin Tomkins in The New Yorker, on Thelma Golden, the curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem.
I’m not so positive I just like the Jack Reacher novels that Lee Child has written with Alex Child as a lot as those with simply Lee’s byline. But “No Plan B” was the one guide I may discover within the crowded Key West airport that I both hadn’t already learn (“The Old Man and the Sea”) or didn’t really feel like studying (“It Ends With Us”). It beat making an attempt to look at tv on a seat-back display the dimensions of an envelope.
Finally, right here’s Kacey Musgraves’s newest, the title observe off her forthcoming album, “Deeper Well,” saying goodbye to disappointment. Enjoy her fingerpicking and I’ll see you on Sunday.
