Deviled eggs with various toppings, pickled onion, jalapeño, preserved lemon and Castelvetrano olive. The preserved lemon was the winner. Mayo was made with milk, garlic, mustard, evoo…no egg.
Sandwiches were a gift, smoked turkey and something else rather unremarkable on stale-ish bread from a bakery known for its bread!
The red cabbage salad was delicious, honey/mustard dressing NYT, crushed fennel seeds, chives and clementines.
Clementine cake with sour cream, uncooked Clementine jam and raspberries.
I’ll have to look for the episode. Here’s their website:
Really good kebabs cooked to order, lamb shanks in the steam table, and if you’re lucky they might have rice tadig (they don’t always have it).
ETA: Here’s the Check Please episode, with the market starting at 17:35.
In the name of science, I decided to try some cook from frozen smash burgers, namely these:
I was fresh out of lettuce and tomatoes; I just had an onion and buns and pickles and mustard and ketchup, and no, I didn’t make a triple decker with cheese, so …
Like an overgrown McDonald’ s small hamburger. The patty is bigger than the bun. I was pleasantly surprised. The burgers contain nothing but beef, so I seasoned a lot before putting the patty in my frying pan. Only took a few minutes to cook; had a nice crust. It wasn’t dry at all. Verdict: these could be dangerous if I always had a stash. Will go grocery shopping tomorrow to replenish lettuce and tomato. And buns.
My PIC and I were still a lil peckish after our post-workout lunch (I had the last of the leftover fried rice, a tiny bowl of it), my PIC a tuna salad sammich — so I made us an avocado toast with local bread, half an avo, s&p, olive oil, scallion.
Oven beef stew yesterday. I assembled/chopped ingredients immediately after breakfast, oven roasted the mixture for 3 hours so ready by lunchtime. The timing worked well with my schedule - oven did all the work while I cruised through some preparatory research for an afternoon meeting. Unusual inclusion in ingredients was a half bunch of radishes that had been lingering in the produce drawer each quartered for the stew,. As intended, they may have enhanced the onion but they were not detectable or identifiable in the final bowl.,
