Food & Wine, October 2008

Potentially tasty treats from the October issue of Food & (mostly) Wine:

• Lamb Tagine with Green Olives and Lemon - I am so craving autumn right now. I might have to schedule a trip to Seattle to have this dish at Union.
• Seared Scallops with Bacon-Braised Chard - Scallops. Bacon. Need I say more? Oh, chard's nice too.
  
• Reblochon Tarts with Bacon and Fingerling Potatoes - If I added duck fat somehow, would that make it overly decadent?
• Sauvignon Blanc-Steamed Mussels with Garlic Toasts - Because I love all of the ingredients.
• Roasted Lobsters with Verjus and Taragon - I typically prefer crab, finding lobster too tough, but maybe that's not the lobster's fault? Now to get my hands on some verjus...
• Grappa-Cured Striped Bass - although I'd probably leave out the fennel seeds, 'cause I hate 'em. Sounds like gravlax, only bassier.

And once again, I'm going to complain about Food & Wine's website and searching capabilities. I noticed that the URL for the lamb dish above is http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/lamb-tagine-with-green-olives-and-lemon. So I figured that was an easy way to get the recipe links. But when I typed in http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/roasted-lobsters-with-verjus-and-tarragon, I got "Page Not Found". And then when I found the recipe through Google, I clicked on it, and what I typed in previously was exactly what was shown! The cheeky bastards.