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Ginny said:
i'm craving a roast beef and provolone po-boy from that place i took you....i think we're headed there before the movie....;)
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Excellent! They have the very best po boys in the world there.

Isn't it funny that such a tiny town has 3 of the best food places in your area? The best po boy place, one wonderful restaurant, and one amazing meat market.

Have a BLAST tonight, sweet girl. Enjoy the sandwich and the movie. I'm pondering doing a solo backpacking trip this weekend, be a good chance to uplug completely, commune with nature. Not sure yet, it depends on a number of different things.

Okay, back to work for me!
 
They opened a big whole foods right on the onion square here (home of the NYC farmers market-which is great) and I walked in one time, took a look around, and realized that A's criticism was correct. There was a dead plastic air to the whole enterprise, as if a giant hypodermic needle had sucked away all the taste and left the glossy exterior to the foods and I didn't even have to taste them to know it.
 
rosco rathbone said:
They opened a big whole foods right on the onion square here (home of the NYC farmers market-which is great) and I walked in one time, took a look around, and realized that A's criticism was correct. There was a dead plastic air to the whole enterprise, as if a giant hypodermic needle had sucked away all the taste and left the glossy exterior to the foods and I didn't even have to taste them to know it.
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leave it to wrathbone to pen a perfect (and uniquely expressed) description.

i shopped in a WF over 20 yrs ago when i lived in NO. THAT was a cool store.

i miss the USq farmer's market. :(
 
rosco rathbone said:
They opened a big whole foods right on the onion square here (home of the NYC farmers market-which is great) and I walked in one time, took a look around, and realized that A's criticism was correct. There was a dead plastic air to the whole enterprise, as if a giant hypodermic needle had sucked away all the taste and left the glossy exterior to the foods and I didn't even have to taste them to know it.
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I've never been to that WFM, though I loooooved the Union Square Farmer's Market when I lived in NYC.

If I didn't get temp work that day and I didn't have to go to my retail job, I would often walk through Central Park down to, oh gosh, I can't remember the name of the mall now. It's at 59th and the Park... It's where CNN is housed. Anyway, I could spend the entire day perusing the magazines in Borders, playing with the samples and salespeople at the Aveda store, and snagging a great lunch for super-cheap at the Whole Foods there. A small portion of really good cheese, a piece of fruit or two... It was like a little piece of California when I felt stranded and isolated. Leave it to me to solve that problem with food. :rolleyes:

My favorite, though, was when I first moved there and lived a block away from Chelsea Market. It was (almost) worth the insane roommate. Almost. :D
 
Hester said:
leave it to wrathbone to pen a perfect (and uniquely expressed) description.

i shopped in a WF over 20 yrs ago when i lived in NO. THAT was a cool store.

i miss the USq farmer's market. :(
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He does have way with words. As do you. Much :heart: to rapscallion and A.

SheRemembers said:
I've never been to that WFM, though I loooooved the Union Square Farmer's Market when I lived in NYC.

If I didn't get temp work that day and I didn't have to go to my retail job, I would often walk through Central Park down to, oh gosh, I can't remember the name of the mall now. It's at 59th and the Park... It's where CNN is housed. Anyway, I could spend the entire day perusing the magazines in Borders, playing with the samples and salespeople at the Aveda store, and snagging a great lunch for super-cheap at the Whole Foods there. A small portion of really good cheese, a piece of fruit or two... It was like a little piece of California when I felt stranded and isolated. Leave it to me to solve that problem with food. :rolleyes:

My favorite, though, was when I first moved there and lived a block away from Chelsea Market. It was (almost) worth the insane roommate. Almost. :D
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Heh. I really like you. I hope you come back to visit this thread when you get settled in up north.
 
Alright, so I was at my fishman and lost my head and bought 40 bucks worth of bacalao-primo quality.

I should not eat this stuff as I have high BP.

But I love it. So here's what I am cooking:

seasoned rice with saltfish

boil a bunch of saltfish for about 20 mins, or do whatever you have to do to reduce the salt level. it would be much better for me if i soaked it overnight, but i love the intense saltyness of it.

wash in cold water and set aside

in a cast iron skillet:

slice and dice one medium onion and sautee in olive oyl WITH 2 cups raw rice. sauteeing the uncooked rice is a good trick.

add fish, 2 small tomotos coarse chopped, a scotch bonnet or habanero, chopped, a sprig fresh tyme, 3 cups of agua, 1 can good quality red beans and i like a handful of green olives, coarse chopped

bring to a boil then reduce heat and simmer until rice is done

serve with avacado, boiled green bananas and lemon water


This is a super simple recipe, peasant food, but that's what I'm all about.

i like to eat it with avocado slice
 
rosco rathbone said:
Alright, so I was at my fishman and lost my head and bought 40 bucks worth of bacalao-primo quality.

I should not eat this stuff as I have high BP.

But I love it. So here's what I am cooking:

seasoned rice with saltfish

[...]

This is a super simple recipe, peasant food, but that's what I'm all about.

i like to eat it with avocado slice
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That sounds so damn good, rapscallion. It's been far too long since I had good salt cod. My mouth is watering right now.

Like I said before in this thread, the more into cooking I get, the more I come to appreciate the beauty of the simple. A handful of prime ingredients, brought to their apotheosis. Simple, rustic, peasant... these are never pejoratives in my book when it comes to cooking.
 
tortoise said:
Heh. I really like you. I hope you come back to visit this thread when you get settled in up north.
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Aww, thanks! I am excited, actually. When I went up to AK this summer, I was on the plane with Ben Stein, who (unbeknownst to me at the time) was there to film a series of "Alaska Seafood" commercials. When I worked at a summer camp there, parents of the campers used to bring us crab and salmon to take home, just because they had so freaking much of it. Now that my cooking repetoire extends beyond the microwave (Hey, I was a freshman in college!), I would loooooove to get my hands on some of that again.
 
SheRemembers said:
Aww, thanks! I am excited, actually. When I went up to AK this summer, I was on the plane with Ben Stein, who (unbeknownst to me at the time) was there to film a series of "Alaska Seafood" commercials. When I worked at a summer camp there, parents of the campers used to bring us crab and salmon to take home, just because they had so freaking much of it. Now that my cooking repetoire extends beyond the microwave (Hey, I was a freshman in college!), I would loooooove to get my hands on some of that again.
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Yes! You'll be in wild salmon (sooo much better than farm raised), king crab, and halibut heaven up there.
 
rosco rathbone said:
Alright, so I was at my fishman and lost my head and bought 40 bucks worth of bacalao-primo quality.

I should not eat this stuff as I have high BP.

But I love it. So here's what I am cooking:

seasoned rice with saltfish

*yummy snip*
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My friend is of Brazilian-Italian parentage, and is obsessed with bacalao...

She doesn't make it quite as well as her mom (Shh! Don't tell her I told you that), but still deeeelish!
 
SheRemembers said:
My favorite, though, was when I first moved there and lived a block away from Chelsea Market. It was (almost) worth the insane roommate. Almost. :D
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Now that place is a trip. Something about it is THE concentrated NYC "foodie" experience, and I admit that those people creep me out to some extent. I can't remember the name of the regular supermarket they have there, the place with the air chilled to just above freezing, but I was wandering around in there and got the same reaction I used to get to D&D HQ on Prince and Spring. I lived one block from there and the ex and I would often wander over and move about in a trance and finally buy a couple of 2 dollar onions or whatever and then go to our real shopping at the Met on Mulberry, feeling vaguely stunned and inadequate. This place gave me that vibe even worse, although nowhere near as shiny and noveau riche on the surface. They had house-brand packages of every single spice in the world, they had EVERYTHING. I had taken a trip all the way to the end of the A line looking for these damn peppers, and got off in CHelsea on the way back home to buy a salad bowl, a mixing bowl, a spoon and a wisk---and there in that store were the peppers I'd been travelling to get.

The knife lady sets up shop there, I've only used her once, but it was pretty cool. She has that japanese technique.
 
rosco rathbone said:
The knife lady sets up shop there, I've only used her once, but it was pretty cool. She has that japanese technique.
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Ah, the single bevel. Sharp enough to sashimify a live fish without it even realizing it's been cut.
 
SheRemembers said:
My friend is of Brazilian-Italian parentage, and is obsessed with bacalao...

She doesn't make it quite as well as her mom (Shh! Don't tell her I told you that), but still deeeelish!
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A divine culinary marriage, that.
 
tortoise said:
A divine culinary marriage, that.
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Yup... Pretty close to that between my own mom (Russian Jewish background) and dad (Mexican-Spanish-French-Cuban).

Gefilte fish and chilaquiles. The best of so many worlds...
 
SheRemembers said:
Yup... Pretty close to that between my own mom (Russian Jewish background) and dad (Mexican-Spanish-French-Cuban).

Gefilte fish and chilaquiles. The best of so many worlds...
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The fusion possibilities boggle the mind!

Okay. I'm off. I'll probably check back here tonight, for I am addicted to you all, but if not, have a WONDERFUL weekend. I am going to spend mine in the woods, camped near a babbling brook, communing with mother nature (said communion possibly involving an outdoor jack or three).

Have a safe and smooth journey, SR.

MORE FOODGASMS! MORE!
 
tortoise said:
Ah, the single bevel. Sharp enough to sashimify a live fish without it even realizing it's been cut.
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Whatever she did to my blade, I fucked it up right away with my steel technique and am going to have to go back way way sooner than the "every six months" she said was average for most of her clientele.

She learned it from a japanese carpenter, apparently. They keep their chisels some kind of sharp. She uses a weird big stone set in an old, wornout looking wood frame.
 
ok. i tracked down my dog-eared copy of the pink adobe cookbook.

here's the recipe for rosalea's green chile stew.

2 tbsp olive oil
2 lbs pork, cut into 1 inch cubes (i use boston butt, and skim the finished stew)
1/2 c chopped onion
minced garlic (recope says 1 clove; i say more)
1/4 c flour
2 c peeled and chopped fresh tomatoes (nice italian canned tomatoes work)
2 c roasted peeled chopped green chiles (don't bother with canned)
1 jalapeno, chopped
salt & pepper to taste
1/2 tsp sugar
1 c chicken broth

brown pork in a dutch oven. add onion, stir until translucent, and then garlic. add flour and stir 1-2 minutes. add maters, chiles, jap, salt, pepper and sugar. mix. add broth. simmer 1 - 1.5 hours until meat is tender.
 
Basic pasta - olive oil, plenty of garlic, some chicken for protein, olives and sun dried tomatoes. Of course, freshly grated Parmigiano on top.

The amazing thing is what the sun dried tomatoes do to the flavour. Mmmm. Little explosions of summer.

I have this (or slight variation) at least once a week, but never tire of it. Or roasted red pepper pasta.
 
CrackerjackHrt said:
ok. i tracked down my dog-eared copy of the pink adobe cookbook.

here's the recipe for rosalea's green chile stew.
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That looks amazing, CJack. I bet it would be especially good with Hatch chiles. Thanks for sharing. I was getting ready to nudge you about it. Heh.

Olivia_Yearns said:
Basic pasta - olive oil, plenty of garlic, some chicken for protein, olives and sun dried tomatoes. Of course, freshly grated Parmigiano on top.

The amazing thing is what the sun dried tomatoes do to the flavour. Mmmm. Little explosions of summer.

I have this (or slight variation) at least once a week, but never tire of it. Or roasted red pepper pasta.
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Oh, I so love sun dried tomatoes, especially in a simple, delicious pasta recipe like that. That is by far my favorite way to enjoy pasta, OY. Lets all of the flavors shine through.

This is going to be my foodgasm for the weekend:

http://images.mec.ca/media/Images/Products/Kitchen/5003283_v1_m56577569830536259.jpg

I've had it before, and it's actually quite tasty. Lentils, potatoes, rice, and vegetables, all in a spicy curry.
 
tortoise said:
I've had it before, and it's actually quite tasty. Lentils, potatoes, rice, and vegetables, all in a spicy curry.
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So quick and easy, leaving plenty of time for stargazing and ... happy thoughts. Backpacking makes anything taste better.
 
Olivia_Yearns said:
Basic pasta - olive oil, plenty of garlic, some chicken for protein, olives and sun dried tomatoes. Of course, freshly grated Parmigiano on top.

The amazing thing is what the sun dried tomatoes do to the flavour. Mmmm. Little explosions of summer.

I have this (or slight variation) at least once a week, but never tire of it. Or roasted red pepper pasta.
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I do something like this quite often. It usually involves whatever is left in the fridge--goat cheese, smoked salmon, etc. But always, always, with a sprinkling of good dried red chile flakes.

We call it LO pasta: LeftOver Pasta. Yum yum yum! Good call, O_Y. :D
 
Thai chicken and basil

Chop a tablespoon or more of garlic and about the same amount of chili peppers -- ideally the tiny Thai hot ones, but serranos are OK or jalapenos in a pinch or if you're a chiliwimp. Half pound of ground chicken, or, better, chop hell out of that much yourself using a cleaver until it's the consistency of coarse ground, like you'd use for making chile con carne. Have a couple bowls ready, one with a tablespoon of brown sugar, one with 2T fish sauce, 1T water and about a halfT of dark soy. Most important -- a cup or more of fresh, torn basil leaves. If you can find it, use Thai holy basil. Failing that, the purple-stemmed anise basil is second choice, or sweet basil mixes with a bit of mint, but plain old basil will work too, as long as it's fresh.

Heat the wok and add a tablespoon of oil. Stir fry the garlic until you can smell it, 10-15 seconds, then add the chilis and just toss a couple times. If you're doing it right, you'll want to sneeze. Add the chicken and stirfry until it's cooked through -- maybe two minutes. Add the fish sauce mixture and stirfry for a minute or so, then the sugar and another 30 seconds. Finally, the basil, turn off the heat and toss just until it wilts. Serve over rice. Drink a Singha. Repeat.
 
That sounds delicious, LM. It's been far too long since I've cooked Thai; I'm going to have to remedy that soon. My bottle of Three Crabs has cobwebs on it.
 
SheRemembers said:
I do something like this quite often. It usually involves whatever is left in the fridge--goat cheese, smoked salmon, etc. But always, always, with a sprinkling of good dried red chile flakes.

We call it LO pasta: LeftOver Pasta. Yum yum yum! Good call, O_Y. :D
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Goat cheese! Yes! I especially love goat cheese with sun-dried tomatoes, one of my favorite flavor and texture combinations. I always have a bag of pine nuts in the freezer, so I'll often add a small handful of those that to my simple pasta, too.
 
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