One Big Table Archives - Chef Lindsey Farr

Baked Halibut with Champagne Vinaigrette

August 13, 2013

I logged into my wedding website yesterday and it had the nerve to remind me that I’m only 60 days out! The Wedding Fairy almost had a full-blown panic attack and I don’t blame her. Things are going to change around here for the next few months so bear with me as we trade fresh fruit for baked goods and olive oil for butter. Not that you even notice that this Baked Halibut is 100% healthy!

In case you’re new around here (welcome!!), the Wedding Fairy is that nagging voice in my head that tells me that I need to stop eating so many sweets or I won’t fit in my wedding dress! Irritating at best. Usually I ignore her but yesterday I freaked out.

Real Italian Meatballs

July 23, 2013

I have numerous guilty pleasures in this world. Every girl must have a few, right? Most of them are food related but one of them is…I’m almost too embarrassed to admit…Bravo TV. I religiously watch The Real Housewives of Every City. It’s like watching a very well dressed train wreck. Impossible to stop once you start. Consider yourself warned! The Real Housewives of New Jersey may be out of control crazy but boy can they cook! Almost every episode someone is making some good old-fashioned Italian food, so I decided to try my hand at heritage Italian Meatballs in honor of the RHONJ.

I found this heritage Italian Meatball recipe in One Big Table, which is a compilation of old-fashioned American recipes by Molly O’Neill. It is the Camparetti family’s recipe from New York City, and just like the RHONJ, it is crazy good!

Old-Fashioned Peach Pie

July 19, 2013

There are a few things in this world that I cannot resist. Peach Pies and kittens are two of them! My fiancé brought home a stray kitten several weeks ago. The kitten had been hanging outside of one of his rental properties and he seemed sweet and hungry, so we brought him to the Vet, and then took him home with a clean bill of heath. This would all be perfectly fine except I already have a cat. I can’t believe I haven’t told you about her! She’s adorable! Her name is Mini (short for Mignonette, if you’re curious) because she used to look like a perma-kitten.

But Mini’s a little on the pudgy side now, so we thought a spunky new kitten might be just the ticket. Or not…

Fortunately the Old-Fashioned Peach Pie worked out better than the new kitten. The crust was flaky and the pie filling was perfectly sweetened. I used an heritage recipe from One Big Table by Molly O’Neill. The Peach Pie recipe is from Coletta Boan in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where I went to university. I loved that the filling was cohesive but the added flour did not make for the prettiest thickener.

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Baked Halibut with Champagne Vinaigrette

Real Italian Meatballs

Old-Fashioned Peach Pie

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