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Notes from the Weekend: June 13
Notes from the Weekend is a Monday feature that sees the members of Team Meal Ticket compiling all the food/drink highlights uncovered during prime eatin' time, Friday to Sunday.
Notes from the Weekend: June 13
Notes from the Weekend is a Monday feature that sees the members of Team Meal Ticket compiling all the food/drink highlights uncovered during prime eatin' time, Friday to Sunday. Consider this a place for good deals, great dishes, wicked cocktails, recipe triumphs (and tragedies), bizarro conversations and more. We're eager to share our notes, but especially excited to read yours.We encourage you to leave notes from YOUR weekend in the comments. Have at it! (View past NFTW installments at citypaper.net/notes.)
AE: Adam Erace
DL: Drew Lazor
Is it just me or is everything ahead of schedule this season? A bunch of the black raspberries I planted back in March were ready for harvest on Friday. (How did I know? Some were getting sun-dried on the canes, whoops.) By the time I finished gently plucking the inky-violet berries, my hands looked like I'd just wrestled with a squid. The harvest was puny but rewarding — about two dozen teeny berries I ate over grainy waffles yesterday morning. —AE
I submitted myself to the Phish gods on Friday night, taking in the band’s interminable Bataan Death March recreation concert in Camden. Loaded up on booze and étouffée at Khyber Pass Pub (56 S. Second St.) before taking the ferry over with M and JC and meeting up with Meal Ticket’s own Felicia D. (a serious phan, if you didn’t know!) and other buds. Hanging outside on a nice night boozing with good friends is one of my absolute favorite things to do (big part of why I went), I just prefer to do it without a stinky shirtless shoeless sandaless kid named Bryce screaming "BIG BLACK FURRY CREATURE FROM MARS!!!" into my ear like that is somehow going to make me like this band. I gave Phish a fair shake, I really did — this was actually my second show — and now I am wholly confident that I will never, ever, ever go to see Phish ever, ever again. I also ate chicken fingers at one point. —DL
Super-light dinner on Friday: a no-bake frittata (who has an hour to cook eggs in an oven, Barefoot Contessa?!) made with huevos from CP photog Neal Santos' Farm 51. I procured the excellent eggs at the Thursday farmstand. Hooked the frittata up inside with garlic scapes, fava beans, peppers and onions; outside with lemony arugula-Marcona almond pesto from chef Sam Jacobson's Lansdowne Table and red onions I pickled myself. On the side: Neal's mustard greens, braised with onions, vinegar and chicken stock. —AE
After Phish, I caught PATCO back to Center City and scooped up various heads at various locations in Center City, then I went home and ate an Old Nelson hoagie (the hoagie line at the Headhouse Wawa was shut down, WTF!) and promptly died of Phishxaustion. Friends of Meal Ticket, I love y’all fools, but never again. —DL
The 16 quarts of strawberries sitting on my kitchen floor were stink-eyeing me Saturday morning, so I quit procrastinating and tackled the load. Hulled and froze the best-looking ones whole, puréed the rest. Most went into ice cube molds for frozen purée, but I managed to crank out a bottle of strawberry-honeysuckle syrup (not syrupy enough, need to try again), strawberry-lemon sorbet, strawberry-ginger-lemongrass sorbet and straight-up nonfat strawberry froyo. —AE
Saturday afternoon I had a blast judging the A Full Plate Chili Cook-Off in Liberty Lands. In addition to 800K chilis we scarfed (recap/winners here), I snagged a vegan hot dog and mac ‘n’ cheese from the AFP ladies’ booth and it was righteous. —DL
Left the strawberry-splotches kitchen behind for a chicken-parm dinner at Marra's (1734 E. Passyunk Ave.), perhaps the only place you'll find a waitress wearing gold eyeshadow and munching a chicken drumstick while wandering around the dining room. —AE
John Taus is doing some really gnarlygood things with seafood at The Corner lately (102 S. 13th St.). Swing by for a pre-Super 8 dinner on Saturday night and enjoyed the hell of out of tuna tartare topped with watermelon granita, and wish-I-had-a-basket-right-now bacalao hush puppies with honey/thyme butter so good we squirreled it away to dip our bread in. —DL
Waffles with my black raspberries Sunday for breakfast, Ikea Swedish meatballs for lunch and Gil Ortale's strawberry/chocolate/vanilla pastry cream tart for a snack. Dinner was Official City Paper Business at a strange Center City spot that played the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Heads Will Roll" for for 45 minutes straight. I wanted to cut my own off. —AE
Sunday I headed up to Dock Street (701 S. 50th St.) to say hi to Friend of Meal Ticket MC, who did an amazing job putting together the brewery’s Beer Week-closing music festival. Wasn’t able to stay for the duration, but had more than enough time to down a few good brews (OMG Pale Ale, Rye IPA, a Summer Session and the herbaceous new Saison Erbé, brewed with basil, rosemary and oregano) and a few good slices while TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb covered “Down in the Hole.” If The Wire had a Season 6, their rendition of the theme song would accompany a far-reaching yet nuanced look at the shared plight of four Maryland Institute College of Art students struggling to get ahead in the dangerous, cutthroat world of studying oil painting and holding down a part-time job at Reptilian Records. When you walk through the gaaardennnn. —DL
After Dock Street, we drove to John’s (701 Christian St.) and got the always-glorious cherry and lemon combo with pretzel rods because goddammit we deserved it for going to Phish on Friday. —DL
Shoulda had a heady veggie burrito on the lot, maaaaan.
Drew, you really did give the band a fair shake. I couldn't believe you even came again. Mega-ups for trying.
— felicia.dambrosio- it's all about the lot eats - veggie burritos, grilled cheese, brownies....
for what it's worth, i'm a super phan, too, and BBFCFM is not only my least fave phish song, i think it's one of the worst songs EVER. too angry for my liking. ew.— blaighk - I got nothing against the Phish phaithful — some of my best phriends are phans, I swear! My brain just cannot process their music. To their credit though they played two songs I do know and like, "Mike's Song" and "[sp?] Groove." Then they started doing noodling and I got hit with a glowstick and I eventually wandered to "Ben's Bar" to drink whiskey with Friend of Meal Ticket JC. — Drew Lazor
- Dinner at The Corner was The Shit, the seafood hotdog is ridiculous and I could probably eat the tuna tartare everyday. Also loved the cucumber salad, tomato & zucchini side and aforementioned hush puppies.
The Pizza at Dock Street was great, and if I had room I would have tried their delicious sounding vegan pizza. It had tomato sauce, all sorts of veggies and happily lacked any kind of vegan cheese. Next time, Dock Street!— MLF - having a friend in town makes life so expensive and fatty, amiright?
friday we hit up a late dinner at devil's den, where the veggie burgers were good, but as my visiting friend observed, had the consistency of a mashed potato sandwich. not that there's anything wrong with that. i was pissed that i missed an ommegang cupcake night for PBW but i'll get over it eventually.
saturday started the day right at cafe estelle (omg, eggs oscar! omg, croque madame!), then art-for-the-cash-poor'd and resisted guapo's tacos. had drinks (lots of them) at chick's wine bar, then hit up booze-soakingly carby gnocchi for, well, gnocchi.
sunday, took it easy at b2, then shopped and gay pride-watched and eventually made it to wedge + fig for a fancy cheese-ball snack. salads for dinner, people. (HTML deleted)— CarolynH - It was all about The Curtain With.— Marc Steel
- Ha, I'm sorry you had to endure BBFCFM, Drew. That's more of an inside joke - although most Phish songs are - but that's especially got to be weird to someone who doesn't go often.
I also apologize for having to be on the ferry with people.. that's the worst. It's too bad parking in Camden sucks so much that it's still the easiest option.
I think there is something interesting with the parking lot food, not for its quality, but for the cottage industry it presents. I know a guy who pays for his tour and travel expenses through selling moderate beers for a small profit. It's not just the kids under 21 who buy, it's the people who don't want to pay redic concession prices. Maybe worth an expose. Plus, after two hours of jamming, a grilled cheese for a buck is a lifesaver.— Justin Leo - Pheobe's BBQ wings are my fave easy fat kid food. Don't get anything else there. Not nearly as good as the wings.— molls to the wall
- i did not go to fish, but i did in fact eat a burrito...
bacon pancakes at kennett are divine. genius. so yummy i don't know how I lived before tasting them. the beet and feta salad is also on point.
taco riendo pork burrito was great, though I think they may have scraped some chicken and beef into is as well, not that I was mad about it because their food is just so damn delicious.
homemade jello shots at the PROM!
turkey sandwich at shot tower was served pretty dry and though the bread was too tough to chew for a hungover person, it was still good quality sourdough (i think). and come to think of it, it actually made me feel a bit better so i guess it qualifies as a good food choice for a hangover. whodathunkit?
grilled cheese with bacon and tomato with a side salad at pope. if i was stuck on a deserted island and could have one food it would probably be that grilled cheese. the bread is thick but perfectly lubed up so it's not too hard to chew for a hungover person. the cheeses ooze out and they are generous with the tomoato and thick cut bacon. plus pots makes a great bloody mary.
Had a couple bites of the huevos at the cantina and if i hadn't just eaten, woulda housed it just like the person did who was generous enough to let me taste it.— ragingpanda - ragingpanda, being too hungover to chew things is A MAJOR ISSUE AFFECTING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS that needs to be addressed by our best scientists over some bowls of mashed potatoes. i'm so glad you brought this up. — Drew Lazor
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