Saffron-carrot lentil salad: Perfect side dish for your cookout

Entries from May 2010

Saffron-carrot lentil salad: Perfect side dish for your cookout

May 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Dinner, Lunch, Spring Recipes, Summer Recipes, Vegetarian, Wine, Winter Recipes

· No Comments · Dinner, Lunch, Spring Recipes, Summer Recipes, Vegetarian, Wine, Winter Recipes

This is great side dish served warm at dinner and great served cold the next day on your picnic table. This was one of the recipes that accompanied the hot-smoked trout and during last week’s sold-out cooking class with dinner. For those of you who missed it, here’s the recipe. It is not only delicious but [...]

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Blueberry Apple Pudding Cake

May 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Brunch, Dessert, Dinner, Fall Recipes, Lunch, Snack, Spring Recipes, Summer Recipes, Vegetarian, Wine

· 2 Comments · Brunch, Dessert, Dinner, Fall Recipes, Lunch, Snack, Spring Recipes, Summer Recipes, Vegetarian, Wine

I love fruit desserts that can be served warm during rainy spring or summer evenings. This is an easy dessert recipe that you can make ahead of time and heat just before serving. The creamy, custardy base with fruit is very satisfying and has less fat and calories than a regular custard. The whipped cream is a different story and [...]

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Something New For Your Grill: Hot Smoked Trout

May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Dinner, Lunch, Summer Recipes, Vegetarian

· No Comments · Dinner, Lunch, Summer Recipes, Vegetarian

Anyone who who owns a grill looks forward to Memorial Day weekend. Whether you’re breaking out the full size grill or packing a Habachi, everyone looks forward to summer cookouts and new grill recipes. I started hot-smoking my own fish years ago when I found that store bought smoked fish was usually dry from being [...]

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Fresh herb salad

May 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Brunch, Dinner, Gardening, Lunch, Side Dishes, Vegetarian, Wine

· No Comments · Brunch, Dinner, Gardening, Lunch, Side Dishes, Vegetarian, Wine

I love the punch that a salad with fresh herbs and shoots (or tendrils) provide to a meal. Milder herbs like Chives, Parsley, Cilantro, mint, celery leaves or micro celery. The whites of fresh leeks, peas shoots or radish shoots are flavorful and also provide great texture. These salads are perfect with a milder cheese that don’t dull the [...]

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My mother’s garden: Three generations of gardening on the North Fork

May 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Dinner, Gardening

· No Comments · Dinner, Gardening

By Elizabeth Malone Gardening has been in my family for years. There are photos of my maternal great-grandmother planting flowers and herbs around the house where my mom was raised. My maternal grandmother did not inherit the “green thumb” but ”the gene” was passed on to her daughter and two grandchildren. I can remember having a garden in [...]

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North Fork Gardens

May 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Dinner, Gardening, Low-Calorie, Lunch, Side Dishes, Snack, Spring Recipes, Summer Recipes, Vegan, Vegetarian

· No Comments · Dinner, Gardening, Low-Calorie, Lunch, Side Dishes, Snack, Spring Recipes, Summer Recipes, Vegan, Vegetarian

I find this time of year to be a “tease” for gardeners in the Northeast. Other than the brief yellow bloom of Forsythia and the peering pink of Rhododendrons, herbs are only begining to sprout. Chives blossoms have not yet opened and the Lavender, Rosemary and Sage plants are still bare. So this is a [...]

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What is the Seasoned Fork?

Photo by: Chris Sanders

I started this blog in an effort to inspire the consumption of local food and local wine on the North Fork of Long Island. And even if you are reading this from your computer in another state or another country, I am hoping to motivate you to think about and cook with the food that grows around you. This blog can be for the occasional cook who is looking for sensational yet simple recipes or the gourmand who wishes to push their culinary limits by using new seasonal ingredients in their kitchens. And for foodies who want the inside scoop on the North Fork food scene, stay tuned to Seasoned Fork and stay hungry!

My Kitchen

I have been cooking in my kitchen at The Greenporter Hotel for almost eight years now. I was always a cook at heart even though my education and career took me in other directions. I began building this kitchen in March of 2001 and worked on every corner of it's design. Having a kitchen on the North Fork of Long Island is every chef's dream. Here you have local products sprouting in farms all around you. Whether it is local oysters, duck, mushrooms or Striped Bass, it's all fresh and even more heavenly accompanied by a glass of local wine. We cook using these local ingredients year-round. In the winter you'll find us here on the weekends and from Memorial Day to Labor Day you'll find us seven days a week. Let us know next time you stop at a farmstand and pick up some really beautiful locally grown or harvested goodies and SEND ME A LINE! I'll be happy to post some recipes for just for you.

Entries from May 2010