News For Foodies: 12.11.14
Winter memberships in Quail Hill Farm’s community supported agriculture program in Amagansett are still available and cost $395 for a family. A first-time fee for new members is $50. Individual shares are $250.
The bounty can include carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage, burdock, squash, beets, celery root, parsley, dried beans, wheat berries, and smoked hot peppers, among other things. Carissa’s Breads is also offering season-long bread shares through Quail Hill, and people can buy loaves individually on Friday pickup days.
Pickups are every other week on Fridays or Saturdays. Members can pick greens from the greenhouses any day of the week, and there are still kale and Brussels sprouts growing in the fields. The next pickups are Friday, Dec. 19, and Dec. 20, and will continue through February or even into March if supplies hold out.
Shares can be ordered by phone at the Peconic Land Trust office in Southampton or be bought online at peconiclandtrust.org.
Edible Gifts
Two ideas for food-related holiday gift hunters come from Sagaponack this week. Townline BBQ is selling its own house-made beef jerky, bottles of barbeque sauce, and hats and T-shirts. And, just up the road at Pantigo Farm, Sam Lester is offering his homemade jams and jellies, including beach plum from the bumper 2014 crop.
E.N.E. and the Palm
East by Northeast restaurant in Edgemere Street in Montauk has happy hour food and drink specials at the bar most nights from 5 to 7 p.m. and two-for-one sushi in the dining room on Sundays. E.N.E., as it is called, is open from 5 to 9 except on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and until 10 on weekends.
Members of the Palm 837 Club can get the restaurant chain’s featured wines of the month at significant discounts, including at its East Hampton Village location at the Huntting Inn on Main Street. During December, a 2011 Rodney Strong red from California’s Alexander Valley is $30 off the wine list price, and Gosset Champagne Brut Excellence is $15 off. The one-time $25 membership fee comes back to you in the form of a $25 gift card good towards a Palm meal or bar tab. The sign-up form is at thepalm.com/837-Club.
Duryea’s All Winter
Duryea’s Seafood Market on Tuthill Road in Montauk will stay open through the winter under the management of its former owner, Perry B. Duryea III. Its hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and until 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Two pound-and-a-quarter lobsters, a quart of New England clam chowder, and a choice of two pounds of mussels or two dozen Littleneck clams are $39.95 in an off-season special. Seafood orders can be cooked on request at no additional charge.
Loaves and Fishes
Feeling lucky, cook? Well, Loaves and Fishes Cookshop in Bridgehampton’s annual lottery sale is underway. Shoppers can dip into a jar at the register for a slip of paper, each good for between 5 and 25 percent off their entire purchase. The deal is offered until the end of the year.
New Year’s Plans
It is not too soon to begin thinking about New Year’s Eve, and Gurney’s Inn in Montauk has announced a $206-per-person black-and-white masked party that will include an hour and a half of cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, a five-course dinner, open bar, live music, and D.J.s imported from New York City. After the ball drop, which will be viewable on large-screen TVs, a round of light food will be served at 2 a.m.
Guests who perhaps wisely might plan to say the night can book a room for two now starting at $610. The room charge includes use of the Seawater Spa. Prices will rise after Monday.
Grilled oysters with lemon horseradish beurre blanc and shallots; mussels Skagen; Greenland shrimp; steak tartare with horseradish, mustard cream, quail egg yolk, and pickled beets, and lobster and duck are on the New Year’s Eve menu at the Living Room restaurant at c/o the Maidstone in East Hampton Village. The cost is $125 plus tax and tip. Reservations are being taken now.