Her roast of George Lucas, at his A.F.I.
A few weeks later I was helping her roast lamb, chopping rosemary for the marinade.
Andy is regaling us... Mother smiles and sighs and picks at her roast potato, and I try to imagine which of her immediate deep concerns is topmost.
But her roasted red peppers with tomatoes and goat cheese on bread ($7) is a farmers' market shopping list, nothing more.
Update: Several of you have mentioned Mrs. Hazan's Bolognese sauce and her roast chicken with two lemons, and here are the recipes.
At lunchtime she would sit among all the printers, eating her roast beef dressed like that, as if it was the most natural thing in the world".
Her stews and casseroles, oxtail and neck of lamb; her roasts, turkey stuffing and chicken liver paté; her chicken soup and salt beef were delicious beyond words.
I still miss her melanzane parmigiana, her roast spring lamb, her spaghetti con bottarga, her pasta con le sarde (that ur-Sicilian dish of bucatini, sardines, wild fennel, pine nuts, and raisins).
The chef and owner, Regina Mehallick, changes her menu weekly, utilizing local ingredients for her roast leg of lamb with saffron potatoes and vegetables.
When she'd gone and I asked George what it was all about he said, 'Oh, she was just carving her roast beef and needed her knife sharpened'.
