the lunch thread

[Wilfrid]

This on cauliflower bread with tomatoes. https://www.salumeriabiellese.com/petit-jesu/

Picked it up at Formaggio. Reminded me of when I worked about 5 minutes from Biellese.

[rozrapp]

It’s been a long time since I’ve bought a skirt steak. It’s from Wegmans where I always bought them previously. They’re in the self-serve meat section. They cut and package them, so there are different weights. This one is 3/4 lb. Cooked on our outdoor bbq. Corn is from C & J Farms near our house. Started with salad of red leaf lettuce, Maine hot house cocktail tomatoes, goat cheese, my own pickled red onions, and vinaigrette.

 

 

 

[joethefoodie]

Love a good skirt steak.

[Wilfrid]

Drama today.

I am on my way home from the Bronx where I had seen the amazingly good Jamel Shabazz retrospective, and when I get off the subway at 145th Street I notice the sky is black. I duck into Foodtown for some essentials, a jar of queso and a can of Stella.

I step outside and it’s even blacker. But I haven’t had lunch and the One Stop Patty Shop the other side of 145th is calling me. So I go buy a patty.

This time when I step outside, all hell breaks loose, as Mr Bannon would say. Thunder, massive rain drops, water sweeping down the streets.

I shelter and make sure to tie the handles of my (cloth) shopping bag together to protect my patty. The queso and beer will be fine.

The rain eases so I set off. I am less than five minutes from home. Then it roars in harder. I don’t care about getting wet, but I actually can’t see. My glasses are in my pocket and the rain is burning my eyes. I shelter again.

Repeat the same, and I am sheltering around the corner from my apartment. I give up and head home with my eyes closed, wading ankle deep.

When I get indoors there is only one thing I care about. If not for heading to the patty shop, I would have beaten the storm. Had the patty turned into cold soup?

I dug it out. It’s brown paper bag had turned to mush. The napkin was half soggy. The patty was wrapped in wax paper; I peeled it off.

The patty was dry, crisp and still warm. That’s what I had for lunch. With a squirt of ketchup.

Is this good enough for The New Yorker?

[joethefoodie]

8 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Is this good enough for The New Yorker?

Depends on the editor.

[small h]

10 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Is this good enough for The New Yorker?

It's definitely good enough for your Instagram.

[bloviatrix]

13 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Is this good enough for The New Yorker?

Try tagging Zendaya. Maybe she'll approve.

[voyager]

Isn't there a tenet in trial law that says essentially, "Never ask a question unless you are already sure of the answer"?

[Wilfrid]

Oh, tough crowd. 

[Diancecht]

i needed my appetizing fix.

smoked trout sandwich with chile crisp, pickles, apricot rugelach…from wise sons

[Diancecht]

there was also a latke. nice hint of onion.

[StephanieL]

A thick slice of the homemade Irish brown bread with raisins spread with Mrs. Ball's Chutney and topped with Beemster's 20-Month Aged Gouda.

[small h]

Poached eggs with smoked salmon at Dudley's on Orchard. Mysteriously, one of the eggs was perfectly cooked, while the other one was pretty much hard-boiled. Dudley's is not terrible if you have to find a place to eat with your friend who is ridiculously picky and demanding, because the waitstaff is apparently high and thus very easy-going. If not super-efficient.

[Wilfrid]

Hmm, I’ve discovered that while I sometimes over-poach hen eggs, my poached duck eggs are perfect. I guess I was giving the former the same cooking time as the latter.

 

[small h]

Duck eggs take longer, I would imagine. I poach (chicken) eggs for 5:00.