We enjoyed another outstanding dinner at Drew’s Bayshore Bistro, in Keyport, NJ, including a fantastic juicy grilled pork chop poblano; our favorite Cajun seafood eggplant boat; voodoo shrimp (that Drew beat Bobby Flay with), pork belly burnt ends; New Orleans style broiled oysters; fried green tomatoes with crabmeat remoulade; muffaletta and burrata salad with nduja. It all went great with an excellent red blend and cabernet. There were a ton leftovers for dinner tomorrow night.
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EBTKS salad. Little gem, mixed greens, red cabbage, red onion, gold nuggets, avocado, carrot, garbanzos, pickled beets, red mini bell, broccoli, s&p, cambozola, ranch dressing.
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Beef asada tacos and a pork bowl from a Mexican Mennonite trailer near Listowel, Ontario.
Both hit the spot.
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In an effort to use up some Brats, that I had purchased on clearance. I made a Bangers & Mash Pie (with brats instead of sausage). Recipe is courtesy of “Backyard Chef” on youtube. His looked better than mine, as I think I used too much gravy. It was a still a fun dinner that tasted good.
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Mexican Mennonites in Ontario! Love it.
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Rare sous-vide ribeye browned to a good crust in a blazing hot cast iron pan, sauteed mushrooms, COTC, Greek salad.
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Sous vide into a screaming hot cast iron skillet is how I do my steaks as well.
Gotta love it, perfectly done each and every time.
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very nice, Ernie
Gorgeous corn & steak 
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A rare repeat for us - Southern-Style Pork Vindaloo and Green Bean Verakka with Cardamom Cornbread from “My Two Souths” by Asha Gomez - thoughtful combination of Indian and Southern US influences in a very tasty dish
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Pizza Saturday. Decided to change the sauce . New Jersey pizza sauce from Tony Gemignani . Placed on top of Monterey Jack and mozzarella. Coppa and basil added when cooked. Liked this pizza. Cheers.
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In NJ, PEC is Pork Roll Egg and Cheese, usually abbreviated PECSPK when ordered.
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Grilled quesadillas with huitlacoche (or quesadillas a la plancha con huitlacoche as they’re called at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants), nopales, corn and and 2 random sausage links I had in the freezer.
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That yellow kernel corn!
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Do you spell that out, or do you just sprain your tongue pronouncing the acronym? 
Nice surprise party at our friends’ house for another friend’s retirement, for which her partner had picked up a bunch of Indian from one of the three pretty mediocre places in town: tandoori chicken (a bit dry), lamb saag (skimpy on the meat & not very interesting) chicken makhni (ditto, and mostly just tasted like creamy tomato sauce), veg biryani I didn’t try, vegetable pakoras I also didn’t have, onion kulcha that was heavily disappointing after having tried it for the first time at the place I hosted my chili heads recently — it was indistinguishable from the naan next to it…. but at least the bharta was baingan’ 
This place adds peas, which I liked, but it wasn’t as smoky as the other place’s version.
*I asked an Indian friend of ours who happened to be at my show on Friday which of the 3 he liked best. He just laughed & said he much prefers to make his own Indian food. Hopefully he’ll have us over some time
The host made two fab ice cream cakes that were the culinary highlight of the evening, and that I promptly forgot to take pics of.
In any event, food wasn’t the main focus. Many friendly faces we hadn’t seen since before we left for Berlin & good conversations to be had. Our beloved monkey boy came up more often than I cared for, and it made what has been a couple of bad days worse. I know it’ll get easier eventually.
There’s a protest we’d planned to attend mid-day along with some of the folks we saw last night, but I’m not sure I feel like lots of people today, and I need to be home by 4 for a quick band practice to get our new drummer up to speed, and that I’d also prefer to cancel 
Dinner tonight TBD. I’m not feeling particularly motivated.
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Yum!
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I worked back of the house so that’s how the order would come to me. Most people would order it a pork roll egg and American cheese on a hard roll with salt, pepper, and ketchup.
Of course calling the meat Pork Roll is dependent upon which part of the state you are in at the time. About 1/3 of the more northern part calls it Taylor Ham while the rest call it Pork Roll. I’ve seen heated arguments about which is correct. Personally, I’m not a huge fan of it no matter the name.
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