Jack By The Pond's Edge

Salad made from the whole plant of wild foraged garlic-mustard (known in Britain as Jack by the hedge), with part lightly steamed and part raw. The dressing is blue cheese made with yogurt, gorgonzola, EVO, onion, garlic, and the magical little blue pea butterfly flowers. Garnished with bread crumbs, quinoa, and a lovely little bouquet for the ladies provided with much love & kind-heartedness from Jack.

The Mermaid & The Sailor

The beautiful and alluring mermaid, with her long and luscious blonde locks, bathing in a sea of gold. Makes easy pray of the predictable, one track minded, and ever persisting pitiless sailor. A very simple, very delicious soup. Golden beet greens broth, wild foraged ramp, wakame, and wild mushroom, so delicious and incredibly good for you.

Sacred Cod of Massachusetts

My love for pastels! Fresh cod over purple cauliflower purée, purple cauliflower greens, golden beet greens, carrot purée, and delicious fish gravy with capers made from fresh fish stock.

Dr. Suess

Fresh strawberry topped with homemade Nutella made with only 4 ingredients: raw cacao, avocado, dried apricot, and ground hazelnut. Unbelievable! Garnished with a tiny mint leaf and blueberry.

Witch's Hat & Broom

This can be a dessert or a meal. Sliced steamed beets, stacked with fresh farmer's cheese mixed with fresh tarragon, chives and a pinch of cinnamon. This one really blew everyone away and not because of the presentation. It was just plain delicious. Our Jack-O-Lantern friend is a steamed sweet potato ball honey glazed, with a face of fiery little pieces of beet. The broom is an incredibly spicy farm mustard green.

Rainbow Salad

Rainbow chard with heirloom tomatoes and kalamata olives.

Mandala Soup

Rich and flavorful homemade roasted chicken broth, chicken, watermelon radish, chard, rainbow carrots, and fresh mint.

Chicken For Concetta

Roasted chicken, roasted diced yukon gold potatoes, steamed medium diced broccoli hearts, steamed Russian purple kale, and baby bella mushrooms, over a homemade demi-glace. Garnished with green onion roots dyed red with fresh beet and lemon, and then air dried until they become delicious, magical, and nutritional crispy little chips.

Spirals

Colorful roasted bell peppers with goat cheese, Greek feta, and EVO.

Pastels

Baby white nectarine, with greek yogurt, peach purée, and a blueberry.

Fractals

Good old fashioned potato-leek soup, made with creamy fresh farm potatoes, farm leek, farm garlic, peppery farm arugula purée, drizzled with clarified butter, crème fraîche, topped with a fine layer of cheese & wheat germ au gratin, and garnished with roasted potato skins.

20,000 Leagues

Support your local farm! Red romaine lettuce filled with life (and character), from the Sport Hill Farm in Easton, CT. A little basic seasoning is all it needs: EVO, lemon, salt, and pepper. The true flavor is embedded by the work of the Farmer through the grace of Mother Nature. In this day and age the chef gets all of the glamour but without the farmer he will be the one to get cooked, overdone. Ziraat (To better understand our way of life by using agriculture as the metaphor) is vital.

The Beach House

Fresh flounder filet over quinoa, stuffed with marinated dandelion, and topped with shrimp espagnole sauce. Garnished with veggie monoliths.

The Opera House

Juicy fresh peach with whole creamy yogurt, drizzled with local honey, sprinkled with local bee pollen, and a few pinches of cinnamon. Simple, healthy, & mind blowing delicious.

Tower Of Babel

...and its been babbling ever since. Fresh corn on the cob with clarified butter and seasoning.

Hanging Gardens

Wild salmon & fresh bay scallops with roasted beet & roasted red pepper mash, brown butter sauce, French lentil hummus seasoned with wild ramps, golden beet purée, and carrot purée. Garnished with a caper and ramp bottom.

The Kremlin

Stroganov with incredibly tender fresh ground lamb meatballs, roasted potato, caramelized onion, roasted pepper, gravy with a hint of mustard, and cultured farmer's cheese. Garnished with a chive berry.

Gotham

The summer fruits have arrived!

Capitol Records

Blue corn & blueberry buttermilk pancakes made from colorful blue corn meal, spelt, buttermilk, fresh blueberries, and kernels of corn. Topped with orange creamsicle glaze made from cultured farmer's cheese sweetened with honey, spiced with dried & fresh turmeric, and fresh orange zest. Garnished with fresh apricot wedges, corn kernels, and a blueberry.

Taj Mahal

As delicious as it is magnificent to look at, it is a very simple dish. Baked sea bass, steamed parsnip, and sweet pearled onions. Covered in an creamy & flavorful seafood sauce spiced with fenugreek and nutmeg.

Venus Of Willendorf

Juicy, sweet, and fresh lychees with a magical blue pea butterfly flower, sided with tangy fresh farmer's cheese, covered in local raw honey, shredded fresh coconut, and bathed in a nectar of azure.

Falling Water, Fallen Log

I know those who walk on water. You know by the river’s edge just across the bridge. We hung out there on the bed of moss. That is where those who walk on water walk across. They speak subtle, I subtly listen to what they say. I know those who walk on water, they acknowledge when we pray. I know those who walk on water, they dance through life each day. I know those who walk on water, and they exclaim to all, “Why struggle, when you can play!

Falling Water, Fallen Log

Lightly steamed greens, foraged fiddleheads, wild mushrooms, green onion, foraged ramp, foraged dandelion flowers, chive flowers, caramelized onions, and quinoa. The river of dressing is Roquefort, yogurt, onion, garlic, and blue pea butterfly flowers.

Rose Soup With Buddha's Smile

Refreshing & rejuvinating vegetable & rose broth.

Chateau(briand), Jardin, & Alpes

Filet Mignon atop an island of steamed nettles, surrounded by a pool of beef & beet demi-glace. Over looking a ramp & beet green lawn, with a stone fence made or yukon golds & rutabaga pebbles. Caramelized onion & garlic with a hint of cocao make the garden’s soil that wonderfully grows cauliflower & broccoli. The chimney is a wild ramp with roots of billowing smoke, and this scene is summer, so someone must be a cooking. Mashed sweet potato alpine mountains rest serenely in the background.

Cosmology

American Crottin style cheese with carrot, beet, and blackberry purées. Garnished with micro greens, caper, and flower.

Star Nebula / Star Hatchery

Colorful, beautiful, delicate, buttery, & flavorful leaf lettuces, drizzled with EVO, minced yellow & orange carrots, a few sprinkles of Himalayan salt, fresh ground peppercorns, and fresh lavender. Have no fear of our friend in the center who shines so bright, it poses no harm, it is just sharing its radiant light.

The Bodhi Tree

On a mountain near a stream, is a miracle garden that awakens the dream. Protected by angels who grant gifts without a Fee; they gleefully share the magical knowledge of... The Wise Bodhi Tree. Roasted red pepper soup with a foraged nettle, from the Abode Of The Message, in upstate New York. The home of my Spirit.

Gandhi

Purslane, the magical superfood that was Gandhi's favorite. Filled with enormous nutrition & health, it grows abundant everywhere. He taught his people to eat this wonderful gift of Mother Nature, empowering them with independence from the British occupiers. Food independence = health & well-being = freedom & harmony. Making this touched my being in an incredibly magical way. It is simple, delicious, and powerfully nutritious. Dressed with fresh lemon another of Gandhi's favorites.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Steamed fresh farm veggies over short grain brown rice, with homemade orange sesame sauce.

George Washington Carver

A true servant of humanity. The sweet potato and the flower, two of his favorites. He created hundreds of amazing uses with one, and with the other he reverently danced among.

Dr. Martin Luther King

The peach cobbler was his favorite dessert. It is said that he loved and always looked forward to delicious prepared meals shared amongst friends and patrons. It was one of the only places he could get a moment of peace and find solace. This dessert was made with all fresh & whole ingredients, without the use of refined sugar or flour. Incredibly healthy, powerfully nutritious, and majestically delicious.

Baba (My Father)

Florida star fruit - arugula, dandelion, spice, & herb salad - creamy French feta cheese - and his favorite of them all, the birds.

Thoreau

Rustic fish chowder with duck bacon, green beans, potatoes, and thickened with potatoes & oats. Green beans & potatoes were some of Thoreau's first crops at Walden. He was known to fish periodically, and was also know to trade for a little bacon once in while. Garnished with thyme, chive, and purslane flowers.

Rumi

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems, paintings, & songs. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but I always do, and that sight becomes this art.” ― rumi/gezim ― When one recites a Rumi poem a Rose grows in their heart making the Fragrance of the Soul. It is not about being a perfect being, it is about the sweetness of the aroma that makes one's Soul. A swirling galaxy of raw cacao/avocado, strawberry rose, & fresh mint. Garnished with Love.

Adam & Eve

Grilled chicken liver, steamed foraged nettles, mushrooms, caramelized onion, and quinoa, with a tangy, subtly sweet, stock & tomato sauce.

Mother Earth

From the treasure that is my local farm, Sport Hill Farm, in Easton, CT. It is truly a blessing! The temporal gifts of sustenance that they share with us all. Purslane, dandelion, various herbs, cucumber, and cranberry beans (all from the farm), with fresh lemon, EVO, salt, and pepper.

Surf & Turf

Filet mignon atop radish greens with demi-glace, shrimp with golden beet purée and and brown butter sauce, chicken liver and red beet pâté, mashed yukon golds, and monolithic style steamed veggies.

Matriarchal

Dal Makhani with quinoa.

Patriarchal

The grand magic of the simple Law of Inverses that is always before our eyes. There is a whole different energy that is powerfully demonstrated just by merely flipping the picture over (the inverse).

Egalitarian

Simple delicious butter leaf salad.

Cubism

Caprese with heirloom tomatoes.

The Eternal Flame

Gone West

Avocado, heirloom tomato, and cucumber with beet purée. Splashed with fresh lemon juice, EVO, and garnished with thyme and lemon thyme.

Jackson Scallop

Pan seared scallops marinated in beets & lemon juice, placed over a sweet and spicy mango & cilantro gastrique, with a waning crescent of mint mango salsa. Accompanied by a silky smooth & very creamy purple cauliflower purée.

Giza

Lamb kofta with gravy, roasted peppers, caramelized onion, roasted potato, and carrot.

Shamanism

Sliced NY Strip over a bed of beet greens with beef demi-glace and blackberry purée. Sided with roasted yukon gold & purple sweet potatoes and steamed yellow & red carrots. Garnished with a white mushroom spiral, roasted cherry tomato, blackberry, and fresh lovage.

Sacred Vows

Wedding soup.

Holy Matrimony

Eruption In Paradise

Filet Mignon over steamed rainbow chard, wrapped with a steamed ramp, steamed wild mushrooms, and topped with chard ribbons. Bold, rich, & delicious homemade demi-glace. Steamed veggie melody made of yellow & orange carrot, watermelon radish, and broccoli hearts presented in a diminuendo.