News for Foodies 11.12.15

Food is on the front burner, so to speak, as Thanksgiving approaches.

The Amagansett Food Institute, which operates the Amagansett Farmers Market, is taking orders for Thanksgiving foods including locally grown vegetable dishes such as a stuffing mix made with local wheat bread. Also on tap are local honey and Carissa’s pies. They include her bacon lattice apple pie, pumpkin and squash, and five other varieties. Cheese platters from Lucy’s Whey may also be ordered, in quantities for 6 or 12 people. Items must be ordered by Nov. 22 and will be available for pickup at the market between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Nov. 25. The market will have holiday hours on Nov. 24 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on Nov. 25 till 3 p.m., but will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. The Gulf Coast Kitchen restaurant, in Montauk at the Montauk Yacht Club, will have a Thanksgiving buffet from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the holiday. There will be a carving station with roasted turkey, smoked ham, and herb-crusted prime rib, a seafood bar, seasonal starters, and main courses of pan-roasted fluke etoufee or lobster-stuffed chicken medallions, along with side dishes. A selection of desserts will round out the meal. The cost is $39.95 for adults and $15.95 for children; children age 6 and under eat for free.

Thanksgiving at the 1770 House in East Hampton will offer a holiday meal featuring first-course choices of seared Peconic Bay scallops, roasted cauliflower and apple soup, Balsam Farms beet and English cucumber salad, spicy Scottish salmon tartare, or porcini mushroom risotto. Main dishes will include traditional turkey and fixings, roasted Icelandic cod, or a roasted Berkshire pork chop. For dessert, there will be pumpkin pie, an apple crisp made with Halsey Farm apples, or the restaurant’s signature sticky toffee date cake.

In East Hampton, the Hampton Seafood Co. has closed for the winter.