Is that a hint of autumn air I feel? Time for figs!
A new lineup, rain delays, and descriptive cooking.
What’s cooking this week?
Fig chocolate chunk cookies (6)
Spicy bread & butter pickles
Tart cherry granola
Pistachio pesto
Sourdough sandwich bread
To avoid the rain we are moving pick up to Sunday from 12-3pm! Two new items join the lineup this week: fig chocolate chunk cookies (read about them in the kitchen report) and spicy bread & butter pickles. We’ll also have a few of our regular players available. As always, everything is made in limited quantities, so reserve your items today to ensure you’ll get them on Sunday!
How to order
Place your order by responding to this email or messaging us on Instagram. Each item is $8.
Once you’re confirmed, pick up your goodies in Fort Greene from 12-3pm on Sunday! We accept cash or Venmo at pick up.
Snack Table, from Maria’s sketchbook, June 2020
Kitchen report
Last night we got out the six foot pole and opened all the windows to host our friend Lisa for a socially distanced dinner. Lisa is an expert on all things Italy, so when she comes by we tend to eat and drink some top rate Italian fare. Maria made pappa al pomodoro, the tuscan bread and tomato soup (read about it in her newsletter), and Lisa represented Sicily with a bottle of Nero d’Avola and caponata, the salty-sweet-savory combination of eggplant, capers, tomatoes, and golden raisins, which has a million local variations depending on the Italian region, town, or household. I did my part by eating everything with abandon.
But it is the dessert Lisa broke out after I ate my weight in bread that I’m still thinking about today: brown butter blondies with figs and pine nuts. Doesn’t that just sound good? I’d eat those things for the texture alone. The cakey-cookie chew of blondie, the buttery soft chew of pine nuts, the sticky-sweet chew of figs--the whole spectrum of chewiness! I had to make a trip to Sahadi’s this morning to pick up some dried figs and try something similar to Lisa’s blondies. I’m doubling down on chew by adding them to chewy-ooey-gooey chocolate chunk cookies. They’ll be delicious because 1. chocolate 2. chewy and 3. ooey-gooey.
This week I’m cooking from descriptive words. Tonight I’m feeling salty, spicy and creamy. Thai green curry? Penne alla vodka? What adjectives speak to you right now? Make them a meal! What’d you come up with? Stop by our table on Sunday to chew the fat and chew on some cookies with me. See you then.
Happy cooking,
Bryan
What’s Cookout?
Cookout is tasty food made in our home kitchen to add to your home cooking. Each week, we offer a few unique things we’re excited to be cooking right now, and a few staples we always keep on hand around our kitchen.