What are you eating today? part 4

Uli · January-15th-2009, 01:55 PM

Potato gnocchi and breakfast pork chops.

Squaredancecalling Steve · January-15th-2009, 02:14 PM

Croque Monsieur, left over from yesterday's lunch with my wife at Chloe's in Santa Rosa. http://biteclub.pressdemocrat.com/de...sp?item=729062

Uli · January-18th-2009, 05:28 PM

Lasagne.

Jimmy Cantiello · January-18th-2009, 05:37 PM

Last night for dinner at 121 Restaurant.

Panko encrusted rare yellowfin tuna with ponzu sauce

Slow cooked short ribs in burgundy sauce with garlic mashed potatoes and fava beans

Pino Noir

Pete C · January-18th-2009, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Uli

Potato gnocchi and breakfast pork chops.

Are "breakfast pork chops" cured?

Uli · January-18th-2009, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Pete C

Are "breakfast pork chops" cured?

No. I've never heard that term before but they sell em as such at my neighbourhood Mexican food store. The are just very thinly (maybe 1/4 inch) cut chops with bone.

Pete C · January-18th-2009, 06:41 PM

Ah. The Polish & Ukrainian delis sell ham-cured pork loin that can be great.

Squaredancecalling Steve · January-18th-2009, 07:15 PM

Turkish food at the book club (for Orhan Pamuk's 'My Name Is Red') -- lamb and plum stew, various mideastern flatbreads, baklava, Turkish delight (but nobody brought halvah), cucumber and yogurt salad, wines, etc.

Sand · January-18th-2009, 07:37 PM

We left the pub and she took me to a restaurant in the neighborhood and right away we decided on the following:

Paté from finely minced and mashed ingerdients from bear
Lamb filets marinated with rosmarin and with vegetables
A pudding made just of eggs and cream and with touch of caramel, strawberries and raspberries and basil.
A glass of red Wine

Turned out to be great stuff. And not overpriced.

Pete C · January-18th-2009, 08:12 PM

Aloo methi (potatoes & fenugreek)
blood orange, clementine, gala apple

Jimmy Cantiello · January-18th-2009, 08:20 PM

If I believed in God I would believe that God created clementines. So good I could eat a crate of 'em in one sitting. And I'm not a fruit guy.

Ron Thorne · January-18th-2009, 09:26 PM

Jimmy, I love clementines too, but must confess that my all-time favorite citrus fruit is tangerines.

Having spent the 1st 12½ years of my life in Florida, I had the luxury and joy of eating all of the citrus fruit I could handle, and believe me, I tried them all. I got very spoiled, especially after reaching Alaska and being forced to eat inferior (

) California citrus, which was either picked too early or stored too long before we received it.

Our oldest son has a wonderful old tangerine tree in his backyard in southern California, and I can't get enough of them when in season. Their freshly squeezed juice is also a spectacular breakfast drink.

Mike Schwartz · January-18th-2009, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Ron Thorne

Jimmy, I love clementines too, but must confess that my all-time favorite citrus fruit is tangerines.

Having spent the 1st 12½ years of my life in Florida, I had the luxury and joy of eating all of the citrus fruit I could handle, and believe me, I tried them all. I got very spoiled, especially after reaching Alaska and being forced to eat inferior (

) California citrus, which was either picked too early or stored too long before we received it.

Our oldest son has a wonderful old tangerine tree in his backyard in southern California, and I can't get enough of them when in season. Their freshly squeezed juice is also a spectacular breakfast drink.

I'm a tangerine guy too....one of my favorite local markets has been getting really good ones from within the Norcal region with the tree leaves and stems still on them.

On visits to my grandparents as a kid Grandpa Bill introduced us to the Tangelo which was pretty mean as I recall.

Pete C · January-18th-2009, 09:51 PM

Minneola tangelos are great because they have the easy-open top.

Scott Dolan · January-18th-2009, 10:23 PM

I've probably eaten more oranges and tangerines than anybody else here. I love them all. Unfortunately, where we live now we have little choice but Clementines.

Not quite the same as a quality tangerine, as Ron has stated, but pretty damned close.

Also, being a true Floridian, I believe orange juice is suppose to be edible. That pulp free shit is worthless.

Ron Thorne · January-18th-2009, 10:32 PM

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I've probably eaten more oranges and tangerines than anybody else here.

That would only be true if you gorged yourself as much as I did as a kid, because I know you lived in Florida longer than me.

My cousins and I used to sit in orange, grapefruit, tangerine and tangelo trees, eating their fruit until we damned near got sick, stuffing them into our mouths like there was no tomorrow.

Scott Dolan · January-18th-2009, 10:58 PM

Yeah, but what kid growing up in Florida back in the days before they clear cut acreage to build cookie cutter shoebox homes with no trees in the yard didn't?

One of the neighborhoods we lived in damn near every house on the street had multiple orange trees. I drank fresh squeezed o.j. everyday.

But, I'm thinking the extra 20 years I spent there probably edged me just past your record.

Ron Thorne · January-18th-2009, 11:09 PM

Folks, as Dave Letterman might say right about now ... "This is not a competition. Please — no wagering."

I'm pretty certain that Scott ate more Florida citrus than me, but only because he was there longer.

Scott Dolan · January-18th-2009, 11:10 PM

And I still have "connections" there.

Of course, having them shipped just isn't the same thing.

bigtiny · January-18th-2009, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Ron Thorne

Folks, as Dave Letterman might say right about now ... "This is not a competition. Please — no wagering."

I'm pretty certain that Scott ate more Florida citrus than me, but only because he was there longer.

Well, I must be in the running too....I spent many years there plucking and gorging. I love citrus and really love oranges and orange juice. I hardly eat them now.....unless you are a celebrity chef, you can't get a decent orange in Boston, or if so, I don't know where. And the price of orange juice is just a bit much for me these days...

bigtiny

Ron Thorne · January-18th-2009, 11:19 PM

At one point in my young life, both my mother and one of her sisters worked for Florida Citrus Canners in Lake Wales, Florida.

One of my most amazing childhood memories is one of me and my closest cousin, Margaret Anne, riding down the orange crate chutes at FCC in Lake Wales after hours ... in an orange crate. What a thrill!

Scott Dolan · January-18th-2009, 11:23 PM

Driving by the cannery in Lake Wales...Mmmm...the extreme citrus smell in the air.

I can still smell it.

Ron Thorne · January-18th-2009, 11:29 PM

For anyone interested, here's an amazing history of Florida Citrus Canners I just discovered ... now known as Florida's Natural Growers.

I'm proud to have a very long family association with this proud, independent group. Ours is at least 65 years long.

Mike Schwartz · January-19th-2009, 02:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Scott Dolan

I've probably eaten more oranges and tangerines than anybody else here. I love them all. Unfortunately, where we live now we have little choice but Clementines.

Not quite the same as a quality tangerine, as Ron has stated, but pretty damned close.

Also, being a true Floridian, I believe orange juice is suppose to be edible. That pulp free shit is worthless.

Invented no doubt, by the makers of Wonderbread

gonzo · January-19th-2009, 05:13 AM

went to baja fresh and got a burrito mexicano enchilado style.

Pete C · January-19th-2009, 09:44 AM

Arepa de chocolo (sweet corn cake) & cardamom coffee from Juan Valdez Cafe.

Brian, you have to try one of these breakfast arepas. You can get it with or without white cheese on top. There's a branch at 480 Lexington (46th).

Brian Olewnick · January-19th-2009, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Pete C

Arepa de chocolo (sweet corn cake) & cardamom coffee from Juan Valdez Cafe.

Brian, you have to try one of these breakfast arepas. You can get it with or without white cheese on top. There's a branch at 480 Lexington (46th).

Duly noted.

clinthopson · January-19th-2009, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Pete C

Are "breakfast pork chops" cured?

Ah, Kassler ripchen. Anyway, I've had fried po'k chops in lots of Southern and Mid-Western diners many times. Not smoked, just fried.

Being a California boy, citrus is no special treat since it's a part of daily diet. But give me a good Mexican papaya or pineapple and I'm a happy guy.

In fact, we tore a Minneola tangelo tree out of our yard because we couldn't eat or give away the huge crop every year.

tippy · January-19th-2009, 11:54 AM

I learned to love pulp citrus (grapefruit and orange) juice when I first came to New York and would buy fresh squeezed Florida citrus at the delis. Delish! As a kid I wouldn’t touch it and to be honest I do not favor eating whole citrus because I hate all that fiber stuff in there that gets wadded up when you try to eat it.

For brunch I am going to eat:

Pete C · January-19th-2009, 12:01 PM

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Ah, Kassler ripchen.

Is that a German-Tibetan monk?