On Sunday, I handed Theo off to Nanny Katie so I could enjoy a meaty Day of Rest. I'd ordered two legs of beef from Marlowe and Daughters for a shoot yesterday with Marcus Nilsson and also wanted to buy some supplies for my cheese-making project and champagne yeast for the mead I plan to brew up, thus requiring a detour to the Brooklyn Kitchen Lab. 

What a place. I came away with a fresh rabbit (they threw in a container of mirepoix for free), a toy anatomical cow, a pint of raw milk, locally grown and milled whole-wheat bread flour, a liter of French cider vinegar from the tap (decanted into reused wine bottles or bring your own as long as the capacity is printed on the label), four Macintosh apples with worm holes (they must be organic), the yeast, an Italian ricotta mold, a bar of homemade tallow soap, and a quart of duck fat for future confit and also for making a batch of Grandmere Yvonne's duck fat soap. AND I got to taste the inaugural batch of mortadella they made in-house. (A bit spongy, but excellent flavor.)  

I felt like I had just witnessed the birth of a baby.

Next stop: Marlowe and Daughters for the cow's legs and one of these pig's trotters for a crack at menudo.  

Sunday dinner: braised rabbit in mustard with Ben's double-smoked lardons; and homemade applesauce.

Dinner last night: string beans.

And here's the photo we made with the cow's leg.

Photo by Marcus Nilsson.