Why serve a bunch of snobs with professional aplomb, when you could serve them spit-roasted with watercress?
It's paired with a sweet-peppery salad of watercress, apple, currant and shaved celery, adapted from the restaurant's fall menu.
Whether selecting farmed or wild watercress, be sure to avoid bunches with dark or moist spots or wilting, yellowed leaves.
Though cultivated year-round, watercress is at its best and sweetest right now, before warmer weather brings on bitter-tasting blossoms and tougher stems.
There would also be a soup, usually made of spinach or watercress or bamboo shoots mixed with dried shrimp, tofu, or egg drops, or even rice crust.
He sat now by the stream watching the clear water flowing between the rocks and, across the stream, he noticed there was a thick bed of watercress.
The forests are abundant with medicinal plants and mushrooms, and the fields produce maize, squash, tomatoes, beans, watercress and potatoes, as well as a large range of fruit.
Then it's a visit to Brooklyn for Brian Leth's recent addition to Vinegar Hill House's list of specials, a pappardelle with the garden-variety snails plus watercress, pears and hazelnuts.
Enjoy tea sandwiches including egg salad with watercress on brioche and English cucumber plus a grilled vegetable tart with Vermont goat cheese, as well as scones, shortbreads, fruit tarts and pistachio madeleines.
We'd flank the dish with sides of corn on the cob, a garlic-studded green such as escarole, a balsamic-slicked watercress salad and even some barbecued meat for the non-crab lovers of the family.
Whatever the veracity of these claims, the tasty little leaves are unquestionably a superfood: Gram for gram, watercress contains more vitamin C than oranges do, more calcium than milk, more iron than spinach and more folate than bananas.
Vegans and the gluten-averse can take solace in classic contorni broccoli rabe with raisins and pine nuts, spinach aglio olio and in salads like the pretty plate of rainbow beets, a still-life of fuchsia, crimson, and yellow, its sweetness offset by the peppery bite of bright-green wild watercress.
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