Wilfrid
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And a student memory: buying fishcakes in the fish and chip shop when I couldn't afford actual fish.
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Finally finished my brandade made with cauliflower rather than potato. Last act meant squeezing handfuls really dry, really dry, then shaping them into fish cakes to be breaded and fried. Result fine but hardly photogenic.
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At a catered dinner last night I drank one of those big, buttery, hard candy west coast Chardonnays. First time in years, I think. It was quite startling (but free). The red wine was on similar lines, but not as dramatic.
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I am five minutes from Sardi’s where, back in the day, we would plunge into communal bowls of nuts and crackers up to our wrists. I never caught nothing. That I know of.
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Isn’t it hard to pick up potato chips with a teaspoon?
I am at a fancy reception where, for hygiene reasons, nuts, chips and pretzels are being served in bowls with teaspoons. The nuts, no problem. Haven’t tried balancing a pretzel yet.
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Dominican salami (Induveca, the best) on zero carb bread with plenty of beurre de Barratte, cucumber and tomato. Simple is good is one point; the other is that there are barely any carbs on that plate.
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Last night. I had ordered bags of zero carb tortilla chips from, well, Mr Tortilla. There was a bag of tortilla wraps with the order. Freebie I guess.
Finely chopped a length of stinky longaniza, plus some tomato; spread the wraps with crema Mexicana and hot sauce; cooked the sausage and rolled it all up together.
Very good because the brand of longaniza is very good. No, I can’t remember, I will look harder next time.
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Back to the brandade which I froze as I was in Cali for a week. Eating it warm with toasted bread and sliced tomatoes. There is a lot of it. I think the final batch will be squeezed dry, breaded and eaten as fish cakes.
But not tomorrow as I am being swept away to a Gala dinner for which I may actually wear a necktie. Remember that?
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On 10/15/2023 at 1:32 PM, Steve R. said:
We've already gone thru a box or so & have stocked up on them for continued pleasure.So, given Sneak's comment about intentional non-reproducing -- of the most recognizable posters here on MF, anyone ever take a look at the % who didn't/don't have offspring? I'd say its pretty far over the average, no?
I share that impression, but I never really counted.
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You are paying my dry cleaning bill.
Still here, sitting in a bar, watching the Phillies and listening to fools. I love travel.
Tomorrow home to Harlem as they say.
Weather is nice though.
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“Dude, what’s happening on TV?”
You are watching it. Figure it out. It’s not like you are being confronted by a Latin text or a Bresson movie.
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So The Desmond was a dinner of two halves. On the second floor of a Kimpton Hotel, it had the look of fine dining…
The service was the over-enthusiastic, cheerleading kind. My server explained that the menu had ingredients from many cuisines and offered to help me with my “vocabulary.” She congratulated me on picking her favorite wines. That kind of thing.
I decided to ask the captain about the “floral congee.” I told him I knew what congee was, but what was floral about this one? He didn’t know. He thought it might be how the “rice cake” was garnished. I think he needed help with his vocabulary.
Anyway I ordered the dish. Dungeness crab with what (happily) was a congee. Not much flavor to anything. Some nigella seed crackers that seemed stale.
The wine list was mysterious. Items called “red blend.” No vintages. Two Coravin selections, one a red at $30 a glass. I looked it up and it’s $28 a bottle. Maybe this was a prized vintage; wouldn’t know from the list.
Then it all turned on a dime. The beef cheek was excellent, served on a thick, unrefined but tasty guajillo tomatillo sauce. You could make “tacos” by wrapping it in Moroccan baghrir, freshly made pancakes with crisp edges; unsuitable for my diet but quite delicious.
A glass of Inniskillen for dessert.
I even started liking the service. The cost was better than I expected but I was probably comped (knowingly or not) at least one glass of wine.
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I write about the companies that enable this kind of thing. Imagine how many ads I get from them.
Which is more annoying? Ads for something I just bought or ads for something I can’t buy — like one I probably already wrote about, a big discount from a fancy hotel, but exclusively for people visiting New York from London. How did I get on that list?
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These posts are designed to make me miss Kathy.
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Right, it’s stupid.
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The Pick Three section of the ruined Goings On About Town is like a bad imitation of [i]Vanity Fair[/i]. “Fall to me is the most glamorous season…”
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Tacos El Gordo recommended by a local. Lengua, good; I was surprised that the tripa was crunchy. On closer inspection of course it wasn’t tripe (English) or callos (Spanish) but what Dominicans call tripitas. Intestines slow cooked then crisped on the grill. Very good too.
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Yes, surprised at all the vegan options. Had not realized it’s a mini-chain.
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Oh, intestine skewers. I think I last had them in a Turkish restaurant in London (I have had other intestine preparations more recently of course).
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Now I have to change my pants again.
As it’s San Diego I should probably think about the local fish of the day, but I had halibut at Francie last week.
Cocktail Recipes Tonight
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A Written Word last night. I don't know why I don't make it more often. Last Word with Cointreau replacing the maraschino.