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Notes from the Weekend: June 28
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Notes from the Weekend: June 28
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Totally proud of you for cooking at home, Drew! After a not-pleasant train-bike trip to NJ (got shouted/honked at 3x... is bicycling on the road illegal in Cherry Hill now?), treated myself to lunch at Las Bugambilias, my fave high-end Mexican. It's not so high-end that it's expensive, though: the Crema Mixta soup is half cream of poblano pepper and half cream of huitlacoche, and is less than $7! Add the free (excellent) homemade tortilla chips & salsa, and I was super-satiated for under $10. Midtown Lunch, if you can make it down to 2nd & South, take note.
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In a last minute ditch-the-city weekend I traveled (past broccoli mountain)to the charming drunken town of State College PA. on the way I stopped at a quaint roadside eatery called "burger king" and ordered one internal parasite and a large Coca~Cola, I'm pretty sure I saw Roy Orbison while there. on Saturday I ate a smoked pork sandwich out of a strangers garage, then drank some yards brawlers while I watched the USA unsurprisingly blow it to Ghana. For dinner we ate homemade pizza on the grill and some bbq chicken, followed by the most giant delicious ice cream cone from the Penn State Creamery (I had the "peachy paterno" but the lady had "bittersweet mint" which kills it). Sunday breakfast I tried the legendary Grilled Sticky, which is grilled, sticky, and also legendary. Then we drove back past broccoli mountain to finish the weekend with some PBRs and PPJs in PHL. tres classe.
I love a good chain restaurant and was pleased as punch to go a Texas Roadhouse somewhere in New Jersey on the way down the shore. It was so salty that it was hard to eat, but everyone was freakishly polite and they had huge beers for $4 (we're talking Oscar's-sized), which I figure is awesome for everywhere but Oscar's. Plus, you haven't heard "Yeehaw" until you've heard it with a Jerz accent.
jason can't forget we also ate at the "red rabbit" outside harrisburg.. http://tinyurl.com/269y28g !
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I preface this NFTW with: Judge not, lest ye be judged and all that. I took in a perfectly delicious parking-lot hummus-and-falafel wrap in the (figurative, it was blazing hot) shadow of Campbell's Field on Friday evening, having slaked my thirst at good Steve Mashington's Phish tailgate just prior. I followed that up with a Kahlua-spiked iced chai (with soy milk! In a PARKING LOT!) before streaming with the rest of the circus into the venue, to dance and freak out the squares. Saturday was nil for food due to the relentless time-wasting of Ghana, who had otherwise played quite brilliant football, which made me lose my appetite for lunch. Harumph. Snuck in on a Sunday night dinner my parents hosted for a gang of my dad's former colleagues, who wanted to know if I showed up at the dinner because I knew there would be a lot of young, single doctors there. I matter-of-factly, and truthfully, replied I stayed for the food.
Friday I cooked ALL day for the family-party-filled weekend. Fruit salsa, green beans with cripsy shallots and almonds, roasted pork and gravy with peppers and onions, corn salad and a few mexi-inspired layer dips. Lots of work but always fun to get it cracking in the kitchen. I can see Drew enjoyed it, too! Scrimps are looking good! Before heading into said weekend we girded our loins at one of our standby sushi joints - Lotus in Marlton, NJ - on Friday night. Pretty standard as far as sushi goes but friendly service and house-brewed soy sauce is what keeps us going back. The soy sauce is combined with sugar then reduced until it's two stages away from a legit syrup. Totally untraditional but so good. Saturday and Sunday were totally eclipsed by the dueling graduation parties. In situations such as these I feel it's best to drink heavily, and so I did. I also schooled some youngins in beer pong for one more lesson post-graduation. You're welcome, kids.
Molly, that's my hood. Next time, drive to the next shopping center and stop at Wild Ginger if you like sushi/asian food. It's yum (crab pad thai, rangoons, tuna trio roll) and byo so you can stop in the Roger Wilco next door and bring it on in. Not that I'm condoning drinking then driving down the shore. Just sayin. And I'm betting you'll like the way they say "yeehaw" in here much better.
Friday night I had delish oysters and cocktails at Oyster House and then some not so delish entrees. We got the clam bake for two, which included potatoes, corn, mussels, lobsters and clams. The clams still had the weird, tough foot-thing attached. Yucky. Can anyone explain why they do that? Am I missing something? On Saturday I tried KooZeeDoo for the first time and it was so great. We got too many things to mention but I think my favorite was the cuttlefish and black eyed peas appetizer. Try it!! Woke up early on Sunday and made the trek up to the Golden Nugget Antique Market which is awesome if you are into junk like I am. They have a little car-racing themed food stand in the middle of it that serves hot dogs, burgers, egg and pork roll sandwiches and really good fries. Sunday night we were exhausted from a long weekend. I cooked a roast chicken (zuni style) and we ate it with a cherry tomato salad while watching crazy-ass True Blood.
On Sunday I had the BEST fried chicken in existence at Brooklyn Bowl in Brooklyn (of course). If you ever get the chance, it is totally recommended. Perfect crunchy spicy skin with super juicy meat. I'm planning on going back to NY just for more.
Friday night I had a critically timed "heady vegan burrito" from some hippie chick, and it was awesome.
Marc, please elaborate on the contents of a heady vegan burrito.
GRILLED STICKIES! Love those things...
Beans, rice, cilantro and a few other ingredients, with a little bit of a kick, wrapped in perfectly chewy white flour tortilla. I couldn't hear all the ingredients because we were talking about how awesome the Also Sprach Zarathustra with Michael Jackson medley was.
I also visited Han Dynasty. It was my first time there, which for a spicy food fanatic like me is inexcusable. The spicy crispy cucumber was more delicious than any pile of raw vegetable has a right to be. The cumin crusted lamb and dry pepper style pork were both so good I couldn't wait to have the leftovers for lunch the next day. I'm now a little obsessed and I can't wait to go back. In fact, I already made reservations for the chef's dinner on Monday.
I too had a grilled sticky ala mode at the Ye Olde College Diner in State College on my way to Cleveland. I would have bought ice cream on the way back home, but alas my barely-closing chest freezer is jammed with six different Creamery half gallons. I did manage to consume a plethora of Great Lakes Brewing products while in Cleveland: Eliot Ness Amber Lager, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, Holy Moses White Ale, and the very awesome Lake Erie Monster (unfiltered imperial IPA). Many of which made its way into the trunk of my car for the ride back.
"a few other ingredients..." mmhmm
A great weekend in NYC! Friday Night - an evening of Wingz @ Moriarity's in Philly! Foodrulez.com is having hold the Philly Wing Warz. Top 10 wings in the city Saturday was lunch @ Eatery in Hellz Kitchen - Cantaloupe Gazpacho! So good it inspired me to make make it myself - http://bit.ly/aBvzYN Sunday was brunch at Sarabeth's on the Upper West Side on 80th! Crab cake eggs benny!
What is a grilled sticky??!!!
Joy, I LOVE the cucumber dish!!! I could honestly eat it every day.
I have certainly been wishing for it everyday!
[...] in local Wine & Spirits stores, just a little bit ahead of schedule. The booze, which we snuck a taste of back in June, is an interesting beast indeed — it combines elements both sweet (blackstrap molasses, brown and [...]
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