The Canal House

@thecanalhouse

The everyday practice of simple cooking and the enjoyment of eating are the two greatest pleasures in life.

Frenchtown, NJ
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    Feb 12

    Saveur also revolutionized commercial food photography! Christopher Hirscheimer (now of the wonderful Canal House in NJ) pioneered the casual, splattered, we’re-actually-eating-this, photo-verité photo style that’s now de rigeur in mags and blogs

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  2. 11 Dec 2020

    In the midst of all this madness CBS Saturday Morning visited Canal House Station to see what we’re cooking up out here in the country. To watch what they found, tune in tomorrow (12.12.20) to CBS This Morning Saturday 7-9 a.m. The Dish segment generally airs around 8:30.

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  3. 2 Jul 2020

    Today seemed as good a time as any to do a deep dive into our fridge and see what needed to be used up or repackaged for the freezer. A summer cleaning to make room for bottles of rosé and whatever we decide to cook and eat this holiday weekend. One of t…

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  4. 12 May 2020

    Do you find that your food choices are getting more specific? More idiosyncratic? Of course we, like everyone else, are eating carbs galore (rumor is that one of us used to dance under the name “Carbs Galore”). The fact that our stash of frozen quarts of…

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  5. 1 May 2020

    MH: The crunchy salads CH has been having for lunch inspired me to use up my heads of celery for lunch today, with the intention of making a crisp chopped salad including capers, anchovies, fresh lemon juice and finely grated zest, cracked black pepper, …

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  6. 30 Apr 2020

    A puddle jumper of a day. But hard to complain when April showers bring . . . you know what. Hopefully the wind doesn’t blow all the blossoms off our little apple tree. We hung basket bird houses in the hopes that our feathered friends might set up house…

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  7. 29 Apr 2020

    CH: Today was a refrigerator salad day. We really needed something green. There was a half a bag of washed baby spinach, a couple of pretty Castelfranco leaves and a few Little Gems, half a bulb of fennel, scallions, chives, toasted pecans, and two hard …

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  8. 24 Apr 2020

    CH: Late yesterday afternoon Steve R. came knocking at the back door. He set a small brown paper bag down on the table. Inside there were a handful of tiny morels that he had just foraged—the first that we have seen this season. What a lovely gift. We tr…

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  9. 23 Apr 2020

    MH: My husband had a craving for canned peaches. Specifically, canned yellow peaches from our local orchard, Manoff Farm Market. So, why not, we made a quick trip to the market, a beautiful drive through the countryside, got to say hello to Amy Manoff fr…

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  10. 22 Apr 2020

    MH: I roasted a chicken for dinner last night and served half of it with soft buttery polenta. We could have polished off the whole bird, but held back to make a cold chicken and string bean salad for lunch today. I sliced the breast and topped it with t…

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  11. 17 Apr 2020

    Even with our new regime, Friday still feels like a Friday. So we decided to break out and make something completely different for lunch and dinner. Melissa’s husband Hugh has a wonderful family recipe for Chinese dumplings. When word is out that he is f…

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  12. 16 Apr 2020

    MH: Nothing wrong with leftovers. CH and Nash with their rigatoni for lunch the other day sounded mighty fine to me. I’m still in Easter leftovers world and loving it. Today, it is a bowl of cold “fresh” pea soup with a dollop of chive whipped cream garn…

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  13. 14 Apr 2020

    MH: We were fortunate enough to have Easter dinner leftovers. Yesterday, I polished off the deviled eggs and the extra onion tart. Today, I had one of my favorite combinations for lunch: sliced cold roast lamb and doctored mayonnaise (Hellman’s seasoned …

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  14. 10 Apr 2020

    MH: Last night I fried four chicken thighs for dinner so I could have two cold ones for today’s lunch. I was thinking maybe a little picnic, just as simple as can be with a couple of pickles for sour and crunch. But it’s too blustery, so I stayed safe in…

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  15. 9 Apr 2020

    Scrambled eggs for lunch today. We never seem to tire of them. Thank the Lord. But you know what those look like. So instead of a food pix, we send you a mixed bouquet of spring flowers on the kitchen windowsill. They are a little garish in color and not…

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  16. 8 Apr 2020

    MH: In honor of Passover today, I wanted to make matzo ball soup. But with no matzo boards or matzo meal in my pantry (and no going to the supermarket to get some), I made the next best thing with what I did have on hand. I warmed up a quart of golden el…

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  17. 7 Apr 2020

    Today Nash and I took our lunch into The Station’s dining room in a move towards civility. We wish it had been a table for three, but MH was handling all manner of business dealings from home while we’ve been here organizing things for our special take-o…

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  18. 6 Apr 2020

    MH: I’m getting down to the last of the Fuertes avocados from our most recent Ventura, California delivery. Gotta eat ’em up before they tip to the other side of perfectly ripe. Turns out CH is in the same boat. Unbeknownst to each other until lunchtime,…

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  19. 3 Apr 2020

    MH: About a week ago, I bought a green cabbage and some Italian sausage to make a quirky version of stuffed cabbage. I thought I’d blanch the cabbage to soften the leaves, separate them from the head, and stuff them with the sausage filling, but I was sh…

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  20. 2 Apr 2020

    MH: From everyone I’ve been talking to these days, we’ve all been eating a lot of carbs, just the thing to comfort us. I needed to break out and was craving a salad for lunch today. I had some micro greens in the fridge that needed to be used up, and to …

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