breakfast

[Diancecht]

oyster pan roast, macedonia di frutta

[small h]

Ooh.

[StephanieL]

Yogurt with granola, challah, and coffee as we watched the Springboks demolish the Romanian side.

[StephanieL]

Boudin Bakery has very good sourdough English muffins, if you can find them.

[MitchW]

Riffing...

Not your grandma's BEC...the HEC.  Ham, egg, cheese on a toasted bialy. 

[MitchW]

No need to say much more...

n

Not pictured - 2 herring filets, bagels, tomato, red onion, butter.

[StephanieL]

On 9/29/2023 at 6:23 AM, MitchW said:

Riffing...

Not your grandma's BEC...the HEC.  Ham, egg, cheese on a toasted bialy. 

Never mind the ham--you sliced a bialy??

[Sneakeater]

Never Mind the Ham . . . I Sliced a Bialy

It could be an album title!

[small h]

10 hours ago, StephanieL said:

Never mind the ham--you sliced a bialy??

How else are you gonna make a sandwich with it? Wait, are you making two-bialy sandwiches???

[MitchW]

10 hours ago, StephanieL said:

Never mind the ham--you sliced a bialy??

I like to show off my knife skills.  

[Sneakeater]

54 minutes ago, small h said:

How else are you gonna make a sandwich with it? Wait, are you making two-bialy sandwiches???

If I have a “sandwich” on a bialy it’s open faced.

But most often I just have them with a schmear of butter. 

[small h]

Egg & cheese is very good on a bialy. So is whitefish, tomato & onion.

[MitchW]

If I could get a bialy properly baked, with real onions and poppy seeds, fresh out of the oven - I'd eat it just like that.

However, I can't.  Splitting it and toasting it offers more of what it ought to taste like.

[Sneakeater]

It's sad (but true) that you say that, living right near Kossar's.

[MitchW]

14 minutes ago, Sneakeater said:

It's sad (but true) that you say that, living right near Kossar's.

Well, Kossar's, but version 4.0.   Back during version 2.0, we could stumble home after midnight on a Saturday night/Sunday morning, and I could get a fresh out of the oven bialy, which could be eaten just like that.  I could also get a pletzel or a large or small bulka.

Fortuitously, I just received Rossner's newsletter in my email. To wit:
 

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NEO on a Bialy at Barney Greengrass

The lox scrambled with eggs and onions—LEO, for those in the know—at this century-old Upper West Side appetizing shop is a deservedly famous dish, but allow me to swing the spotlight a few lines higher on the menu. There, you’ll find the NEO, which uses Nova instead of the much saltier, much more face-punchy belly lox of the more famous variant. This preference isn’t a matter of sodium aversion; it’s a statement of connoisseurship. Lox is salmon that’s been salt-cured; its flavor is saline and intense. This aggressiveness has a time and a place—there’s a reason lox is so often cushioned by cream cheese and paired with sharp garnishes like tart tomato or raw red onion—but, in the LEO, its brashness totally overwhelms what ought to be a three-part harmony. Nova is also a salt-cured salmon, but then the fish is kissed with smoke. The flavor is sweeter, more subtle, a more elegant counterpart to sautéed onion, and its gentler texture is far more lovely against the eggs. The NEO at Barney Greengrass is one of the city’s great breakfast plates—but is it a sandwich? It is the way I eat it: get a bialy on the side, split and toasted, and pile on as much of the scramble as the bread will hold. There are few more exquisite ways to start a morning.

 

 

[small h]

That also sounds like a good idea!

I learned to make bialys. Not because Kossar's got less good, but because it got more expensive.

[splinky]

i haven't had a decent bialy since i was a kid. 

[StephanieL]

10 hours ago, small h said:

How else are you gonna make a sandwich with it? Wait, are you making two-bialy sandwiches???

Bialys are not for making sandwiches.  Per Sneakeater, you have them as is, untoasted, with sweet butter.

Edited October 8, 2023 by StephanieL

[small h]

2 hours ago, StephanieL said:

Bialys are not for making sandwiches.

Don’t make me fight you. I have a cane now, and I like swinging it around.

[Wilfrid]

Today was yogurt day but I am out of yogurt. Reached for the low carb granola, then realized I am out of (nut-based) milk. Defrosted a low carb croissant, split it, did not scoop it, drizzled it with crema Centroamericana.

Need to shop.

[small h]

Soft scrambled eggs with shallots, morels and lobster. Like I'm at Norma's or something.

 

 

[StephanieL]

Wise Sons Deli was running Chanukah pop-ups this past week, and I bought a chocolate babka (for my friends' party), a sesame & poppyseed challah, and smoked trout salad.  We had the trout salad on challah yesterday and on bagels today.

[Wilfrid]

Duck egg over easy, sliced morcilla from the Tin Building butcher.

[Sneakeater]

Oh yum.

[StephanieL]

N used some of the surfeit of homegrown bananas we have to make almond flour, flax, and banana pancakes.  (The bananas are blended into the pancake batter.)