Archive for April, 2008
April 25, 2008 at 2:23 pm
· Filed under Local Favorites ·Tagged Corned beef special, Local Favorites
That’s a lot of meat.
From middle school and through high school, my family would spend Sunday dinner at my grandfather’s house. Grandpop still lived in the house in which my mother grew up; a fifteen minute drive from our home.
Dinner was a low-key affair. Sometimes there would be a pot of chicken soup that grandpop had recently cooked. But the core of the meal were cold cuts from the deli case at the Acme and rye and pumpernickel from Greenberg’s Bakery (no longer in existence) on Haverford Avenue. Grandpop certainly didn’t keep kosher, but all the same, there never was any ham. Instead, we would eat beef salami, turkey breast, and corned beef. There was generally some Jarlsberg light or Alpine Lace Swiss around the table, but I didn’t eat much cheese back then. And we also had some sides: potato salad and coleslaw. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 22, 2008 at 12:46 pm
· Filed under Product Reviews ·Tagged Hot sauce
Clancy’s Fancy Hot Sauce
Frankly, I don’t miss too much about living in Ann Arbor. I did live in a wonderful house, and had a great group of friends. But with most other things: the harsh winters, self-flagellation, and same circuit of four bars- I’m happy to have moved on.
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April 15, 2008 at 5:57 pm
· Filed under Agriculture, Breakfast, Eating In ·Tagged Agriculture, Breakfast, Eating In, Local Food Fetishism, Steaks
Get the cardiologist on the line
This cut of beef, pictured above as an integral part of Sunday’s breakfast, is a bit of a mystery. Procured from a Pennsylvania purveyor at the Clark Park Farmer’s Market on Saturday, the “Ranch Steak” is the ideal size for the “steak” half of the classic “steak and eggs” combination. Grass-fed and dry-aged, the steak had a nice degree of marbling. I seasoned it with salt and pepper, cooked it for about five minutes in a pan over medium-high heat, then put it under the broiler to cook the other side, until the steak reached medium rare.
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April 12, 2008 at 11:26 am
· Filed under Eating Out, Local Favorites ·Tagged Baseball, Eating Out, hot dogs
Rick Nichols, of the Philadelphia Inquirer, also found the concept of Dollar Dog Night noteworthy. He also had the wherewithal to make it to the first such event of the season and was less than ecstatic with what he found: Read the rest of this entry »
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April 10, 2008 at 5:50 pm
· Filed under Drinks ·Tagged Education, Wine
The service part of my new job may be on the grueling side, but the work does come with some benefits. As I had hoped, I am apparently doing some learning. To those who know me, I’m obviously a big fan of education for the sake of education. This made it easier for me to scrap over five years of graduate education, when leaving without a degree made it very unlikely that I would land in a profession related to what I had been studying. But I didn’t waste these years, I was learning.
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April 8, 2008 at 11:15 am
· Filed under Eating Out ·Tagged Eating Out, Service Industry
Posting has been slim in this space over the last week, thanks to the assumption of some new professional responsibilities. Needless to say, I have a newfound respect for those who work in restaurants, now that I am one of them.
While I only handle the most basic of restaurant tasks in my new position of support/host at an establishment that will remain unidentified, I haven’t finished a training shift without being overcome with a feeling of utter incapability. This sensation hits me like a cresting wave, and I move through my work as distracted as I would be if I were soaking wet. Luckily, I have yet to douse myself, or others, with any liquids. But my efforts at mastering carrying three plates at once did result in a portion of salad sliding onto my shirt last night, in an effort to keep the entire salad from landing on the floor.
I’ve been assured that it all gets easier. I can only hope so. Until then, I’ll be at home, practicing carrying plates.
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April 1, 2008 at 5:58 pm
· Filed under Cheese ·Tagged Cheese, Prosciutto, Winning combinations
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