Food Blog

While In NY, I had lunch in Branzini, Rick Moonen’s bistro on Madison and 41st. The coconut clam chowder sounded good, but I choose the Grilled Portuguese Sardines with extra virgin olive oil & lemon. This is the sort of thing that needs nothing else besides olive oil, parsley and lemon. In a NYT’s Review, William Grimes says “…the world divides into two great camps, sardine lovers and infidels”. For the main course I had the Sauteed Skate, pommes fondant, lemon caper butter. Pommes fondant means potatoes something or other and were really good. A fondant is usually a cake decoration, but in this case it is a sort of pureed and pressed potato. Here’s a similar recipe.