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[herbacidal]

I'm so envious after reading this thread.

I ate 3 cold hardboiled eggs and some deli meat (packed in a tupperware container) on a jam-packed bus on my way to school. (Slept in and missed my first class).

yea i know.

[Betts]

Took a cooking class from Rosemary Barron on Greek Meze - a bit of this and a bite of that but the dates stuffed with goat cheese and herbs was a huge hit, and the best semolina cheese pies, warm from the oven with thyme honey and lemon syrup.

Factoid I learned today - the Greeks do not serve the olivada with bread/ toasts etc - just a small dollop on the plate to season the other foods- it was delicious on the dolmas. To tell the truth I like it that way much better .

[Ling]

I'm so envious after reading this thread.

I ate 3 cold hardboiled eggs and some deli meat (packed in a tupperware container) on a jam-packed bus on my way to school. (Slept in and missed my first class).

yea i know.

You're envious too?

Or were you the funny little man sitting beside me on the bus who kept looking at my lunch?

[herbacidal]

I'm so envious after reading this thread.

I ate 3 cold hardboiled eggs and some deli meat (packed in a tupperware container) on a jam-packed bus on my way to school. (Slept in and missed my first class).

yea i know.

You're envious too?

Or were you the funny little man sitting beside me on the bus who kept looking at my lunch?

see how envious i am?

i'm even envious of those 3 eggs and deli meats.

[ophelie]

In about 10 minutes I will be having some rather yummy leftovers...

Chicken and penne with a fierce but delicious diavlo sauce (made with some of the peppers from the pepper plant I was given a few months ago).

YUM!

-O

[Rhea_S]

I started eating my lunch over an hour ago (10:30AM!). Almost two cups of steamed jasmine rice, chicken stirfry with red peppers, sichuan peppercorn truffle, hot lipton tea. I'm extraordinarily hungry today.

[Malawry]

I had the leftover pad thai for breakfast (Dinner! last night) with some iced coffee sweetened with coconut syrup, so I wasn't that hungry by lunchtime. I seared off the rest of the pak choy with soy sauce, ginger, sherry, sesame oil and chili oil and a dash of sugar and ate that as a light lunch. I'm currently cooking a big pot of applesauce and making some Joy of Cooking sugar cookies. I was noting how the applesauce sweetness level seems to vary when I check it, it's a lot less sweet after eating some cookie dough yet tasted very sweet when I checked it after eating the pak choy.

[Varmint]

Mmmmmmm. It doesn't get any better than this: I ran home, made myself a PB&J with Malawry's sour cherry jam, grabbed a bag of chips, and came right back to the office. Thank god for the jam, as otherwise, it would have really been a sucky lunch. Oh, I had a Moon Pie left over from the pig pickin'.

[rachiesarah]

leftover tomato onion tart (a combination of an epicurious recipe & that new york times recipe that ran this summer) and fig newtons

[Ling]

I'm so envious after reading this thread.

I ate 3 cold hardboiled eggs and some deli meat (packed in a tupperware container) on a jam-packed bus on my way to school. (Slept in and missed my first class).

yea i know.

You're envious too?

Or were you the funny little man sitting beside me on the bus who kept looking at my lunch?

see how envious i am?

i'm even envious of those 3 eggs and deli meats.

stop making fun of me

Today I'm having a can of chilli.

Edited by Ling, 23 October 2003 - 11:18 AM.

[bergerka]

Went to Spade's Noodles & More on 37th and 3rd and had shredded beef with string beans in spicy garlic sauce. YUM. With diet coke. At $5.25, it's a hell of a deal, and the service was actually both polite and quick today (we've taken to calling it the place that serves "rude Chinese").

Picked up a Halloween-themed black & white cookie (which is to say a black and orange cookie) at Zaro's on the way back. It's a little dry, but the frosting is good.

K

[cheeseandchocolate]

Half a culatello sandwich with peppers, onions, and various sauces from Salumi, last night's Food Network star. Also had some leftover roasted cauliflower at home. I'll have the other half of the sandwich later today, since the last time I ate the whole sandwich in a sitting I wanted to die. Also tasted the much-talked-about lamb prosciutto, which was indeed heavenly--but I worried that an entire sandwich of it would make me feel like I'd been going at a salt lick.

Edited by cheeseandchocolate, 23 October 2003 - 12:37 PM.

[bloviatrix]

I've been without my stove for over 48 hours (gas leak, needed a valve replaced) so as soon as the repair man left I made myself a cup of tea and some god awful chili-in-a-cup. It was great finally being able to have something hot. For dessert was a sliver of flourless chocolate cake.

[Toliver]

For lunch, a French Burger from Carla's Drive-in, a local drive-thru burger joint. No indoor seating, just picnic tables outside.
The French Burger is two small grilled hamburger patties side by side on a french roll (hence the name) topped with the usual lettuce, onion and tomato along with cheddar cheese and bacon. The "sauce" for a French Burger is usually 1000 Island salad dressing but I think Carla's just uses mayo on theirs.
It came with a large side of fries which were not the pitiful, flat-sided, thin fries that all the fast food joints foist upon the public but, instead, were crinkle cut fries, comparatively thick, hot and lightly dressed with seasoned salt.
And the drink with this combination was a large vanilla Pepsi. Note this was not the Vanilla Pepsi by Pepsi, but a soda fountain Pepsi with vanilla syrup added in (20 cents extra, which I gladly paid).
Sometimes a Mom & Pop place hits the spot in a way the fast food joints never will.

[cdh]

lunch today was a leftover crab cake from a batch I made for dinner the other night... Have found that a sprinkle of corn flake crumbs instead of any other bread-y produce makes for a lovely crab cake consistency.

[suzilightning]

after i got to work - 2 cups of tea with sugar and a coffee with milk and sugar to thaw out then some split pea soup and 2 openfaced tomato and swiss sandwiches on whole wheat toast....

course breakfast was macaroni and cheese with healthy choice hot dog pieces but that's another thread

[MHesse]

I'm supposed to be on a diet too, but I blew it off today.

Met friends for lunch at Delta Grill on 46th and 9th. Had share of fried okra, red beans and rice - with andouilie sausage and a chicken breast, and two beers. My friend gave me half his muffeletta which he couldn't finish to take home.

Since I was so close, I went to 46th and 11th and got a pulled pork sandwich, Kansas City ribs, and a large side of beans from Daisy May's.

Now we have lunches and dinners for 2 more days.

So much for blood sugar control this week.
I should be recovered for Burger Club on Saturday

[mighty quinn]

venison and green chili stew over kluski noodles-at 0100-my lunch hour! i have a big glass of red wine in the morning when i get home from work.

[beans]

With diet coke.  At $5.25, it's a hell of a deal, and the service was actually both polite and quick today (we've taken to calling it the place that serves "rude Chinese").

Chinese was yesterday's lunch too. Steamed veggies with this awesome garlic brown sauce and brown rice. I giggle because this is the take out with the happy, grandmotherly lady with the eternal smile at the counter. I've never seen her frown in the four years of popping in for take out. My friends and I often refer to it as 'up for some happy Chinese today?'

[babyluck]

Yesterday:

Tried out a new pizza place with the girls: Ralph-O's. Had to intervene when they whined "let's just go to brick oven..." -- I am so sick of that place.

Proprietor is eager ("hey girls, where do you work? really? so you're on your lunch hour then? we make our own bread here fresh every day. we do party platters...") H asks him if he's Ralph. No, he bought it from Ralph. He is Frank but lets people call him Ralph. He lacks the gruff nonchalance of your usual pizzeria owner. Nice, but a little too much.

We order a large pie (half sausage, half plain) and get a free order of baked ziti along with fresh bread. Everything is undercooked and the ziti is a little soapy. Probably he's worried we'll get impatient and pulls it out of the oven early, but the pies he has out under glass look the same. They are covered with plastic wrap. First time I've seen that. Guess it's more hygenic but it makes me wonder how much business he does.

Stay tuned to find out if babyluck eats the leftover soapy ziti for lunch today or gets Korean...

Edited by babyluck, 24 October 2003 - 07:31 AM.

[curlywurlyfi]

leftover catered office lunch (caterer brought one extra - hurrah!):

- plaice fillets with tomato basil + kalamata olive salsa
- the most delicious Puy lentils in the WORLD - so good I had to ask how she made them - for four people, she pureed a hunk of ginger with two cloves garlic and a whole de-stalked red chili, then fried the paste in a spot of oil just enough to take the raw edge off the garlic, meanwhile cooked the lentils separately and then tossed them in the ginger mix with a bit of fish sauce, some spring onions and chopped fresh coriander. just heavenly.
- raspberry creme brulee

I am never going to be thin at this rate.

[cbel964]

wow; i had a can of ginger ale.
not feeling great

[Chris Cognac]

Today I am either gonna roll down to the "Hood" (South Central L.A.) and eat at a tiny BBQ shack called Mom's on Imperial Hwy, or head down to Venice in search of the elusive Aussie meat pie!...I will report later as its only 8 am now!

[megaira]

Strange avocado cravings have been haunting me, so for the last couple days it's been a salad-ish deal of seasoned sushi rice, nori (cut into small squares), and diced avocado all mixed up, garnished with sesame seeds and wasabi/shoyu drizzled over the top.
I tried it the day before with diced cucumber, but it didn't work out as well as I thought it should.

Today, leftover chili from last night. Probably with sour cream. And avocado.

I wouldn't touch avocados growing up, I'm making up for lost time.

Edited by megaira, 24 October 2003 - 08:42 AM.

[curlywurlyfi]

Strange avocado cravings have been haunting me

Megaira, I can help you, then, with a strange avocado serving suggestion - try it with Worcestershire sauce instead of vinaigrette. oweeeee.

[hjshorter]

I had...the Burger King Sante Fe Chicken sandwich. I had to go to Sears at the mall, and there's a BK right next door. So, my curiousity won out and I bought one. It was surprisingly not bad for a fast food sandwich. The bread was crusty, the chicken was hot, the poblanos and onions could be tasted individually, not too much sauce...it really was not as bad as I was expecting although it strikes me as something that could vary in quality wildly from place to place.

[tryska]

office catered lunch - so ham and turkey on some fabulous whole grain bread with some very tired pasta salad, and very nice roast red potatoe and bacon salad. (might get seconds on that) good stuff.

[margaret]

Some minestrone alla genovese that came out of the freezer during a recent cleanout. Not particularly looking forward to it, but I'm determined to save money and fight the takeout temptation.

Maybe an apple later on.

[bloviatrix]

Right now I'm busting at the seams from my lunch. Today, at the greenmarket I saw what appeared to be mini-ciabatta's with carmelized onions on top. It wasn't a ciabatta, as the inside was denser and softer. Anyway, I spread homemade basil mayo on the top and bottom of the roll, and filled with tuna that was packed in olive oil that I mashed and mixed with a little more basil mayo.

The roll was about 5 x 5 and I used the whole can to fill it. I inhaled the whole thing in about 5 minutes. I didn't realize that I was that hungry. All my poor husband, who was making "begging eyes," got was a single small bite.

It was yummy.

[Mayhaw Man]

Acme Oyster House Oyster Po boy (dressed plus dill pickle slices)

Really good "skin on" fries

Pecan pie

Large ice tea

I need a nap