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A couple of tips:Sorry to be so stupid, but I tried '310' in 'site search' and got nothing. Is there another way to find a specific posting number?
the post number is in the upper right hand corner of each post, so you could just scroll up a few and you can find it
also, Sandy made the post number a clickable link, so you could just click on that text.
and finally, if you read through the last few posts, you'll see that H-Mart is the name of the Supermarket near 69th street in Upper Darby that you first asked about.
Go, it's a great store!
Thank you!
I have a hard time seeing the very slight change in the shade of blue that indicates a link.
I'll be there before the week is out! It sounds great!
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This is basically a curry = a mix of spices. As with all curries, there's a zillion variations. Here's one recipe for the marinade (for about 2.2 lbs diced fat lamb meat) I've found: two garlic cloves, minced; one tspn finely minced onion; 1 tspn minced fresh cilantro; one sliver fresh ginger, minced; 1/2 tspn ground cumin; 1/2 tspn ground thyme; 1/2 tspn ground oregano; 1/2 tspn ground cayenne pepper; 2 tspns freshly ground black pepper; 1 ground clove; a very small amount of ground nutmeg (no more than the tip of a knife); mix all into some extra virgin olive oil to provid a liquid marinade.
¡Muuuuchas gracias!
My favorite place for pinchos morunos in Madrid used to be an outdoor place on Plaza Sta. Ana (north side of the plaza). The marinade had a distinctly yellow color. Do you think they might have used turmeric?
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Sorry to be so stupid, but I tried '310' in 'site search' and got nothing. Is there another way to find a specific posting number?
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You have to live in Rochester to get a garbage plate
I submit to you that this dish sounds worse than it tastes.
But . . . but . . . it sounds GREAT!!!!!
OK, I finally have to ask. What is a garbage plate?
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i don't think london has pizza on their menu anymore, although i could be wrong--although if you're going up there, you could do a hell of a lot worse than rembrandt's. they may not have ever made a best of list, though.
Thanks for the tips in general.
I'm supposed to go to Rembrandt's tonight to meet up with a friend and former Penn colleague who is one of a few friends who also enjoys jazz; pianist Sid Simmons is playing there tonight. I'll keep that in mind, and if I decide to order one, I'll report back to this board.
So far, the vote tally is South Philly 2, Center City 0--though it also sounds like the Center City stop on the tour should also be split in two, West and East. Keep in mind that except for the Didn't Deserve the Honor to Begin With places (e.g., Pizza Hut, the winner in the all-'burbs 1982 BoP, or Pizzeria Uno, the winner in that same year's sidebar "for diehard city lovers"), our aim is to visit all of the past winners, even the ones that have gone downhill, as it appears Towne Pizza and Apollo in Media may have. (See the Northeast report for an example from this category.)
The polls are still open through the weekend. After that, we will settle on a date. Weekday evenings are okay too.
Edited to add: IMO, Pietro's is not so much more upscale that it cannot be compared to the more prosaic places. Patou in Old City, OTOH, is. I've eaten at both.
I can't bring myself to even taste anything at Uno. I ate there once, in the 1980s, and got violent food poisoning. The memory is too horrible for words.
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umeboshi! I love it, but I'm from Kyoto. I also like natto, because my father was from Tokyo and I grew up eating it. Still, I haven't met many people who will eat umeboshi. On a trivia show, a Swedish couple was given a traditional Japanese breakfast, and they said the tamagoyaki, misoshiru, aji, was fine, but they couldn't eat the natto and umeboshi.
I can't eat cilantro.
Umeboshi--yum! I have a jar in the fridge now. Cook some sushi rice and pat it into a patty with an umeboshi plum tucked inside. Lovely snack. :-)~~~ I discovered this treat when a Japanese family moved into my neighborhood and we became friendly. Her son and my nephew are the same age and they played together. She made these for lunch. I was hooked.
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So how was the food court?
I've shopped the supermarket--it's in my foodblog--but I haven't yet sampled the food court fare.
I remember seeing H-Mart in your blog! The food court was pretty decent. The Korean place in the far corner seemed, that Saturday afternoon, to be the most popular option, so that's what we went with. We ordered two soups because we were trying to pace ourselves for the eating marathon that lay ahead -- if I was buying groceries, I'd definitely stop by beforehand for some bibimbap. There's also a fried chicken place that NO ONE was trying, so I was a little suspicious (still, it's fried chicken; how bad can it be?) and a bakery and a sushi bar and maybe one more place. Anyways, I don't think it's worth a separate trip, but if you're at H-Mart and hungry, why not?
H-mart?
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Vernor's ginger ale. As a kid in Michigan I loved this stuff, but after moving to Seattle I was shocked that none of my friends would drink it. I guess it does have a very unique taste, but I can't think of a better and more nostalgic lunch than Vernor's and pizza. Mmmm.
Vernor's I can handle.
But you gotta have a lot of moxie to down Moxie.
AFAIK, the beverage is confined to New England these days. I hope it doesn't break loose and contaminate the rest of the country again.
I've never heard of Vernor's ginger ale. How is it different from any other ginger ale, such as Schweppes?
As for root beer, you have to drink the right kind. Some are vile. But then there is Stewart's, really good root beer!
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It's now the middle of July, which means it's time to plan another tour stop.
I'd like to throw out a couple of options for your consideration.
One would be a second South Philly foray, built around four-time winner Celebre's. There's a regional winner (Wolf Street Pizza, 1992) not far away, and another winner (Russo's, 1991, for their Sicilian pie) even closer. (There are at least three other South Philly places on the list, including one more within spitting distance of Celebre's and two in the Italian Market area, Bitar's ["Best Weird Pizza," 1979] being one of the two.)
The other would be a Center City and environs segment. Choices for this installment include NYPD Pizza (Wash West, 2005 Philadelphia City winner), Pietro's (Rittenhouse Square, 2000 city winner), JJ's Grotto (1990, for their eggplant pie), Mama Palma's (Fitler Square, 1999, for their combinations), Montesini Pizza (Liberty Place food court, 1992 and 1993, both times city winner), Pete's Famous Pizza (Logan Circle, 1981) and Towne Pizza (Rittenhouse Square--one of the earliest winners, in 1976 and 1977). In the surrounding area, there's Savas' in Spring Garden (1991, "Best Bizarre Pizza" for their octopus-topped pie, and 1994, Best Classic Pizza). And there are two places not commonly associated with pizza that would probably require special dispensation for a Pizza Club evaluation: Patou in Old City ("Best Upscale Pizza," 2004) and London Grill in Fairmount ("Best Pizza from a Restaurant," 1998). Finally, the owners of Media's Apollo Pizza (best in Delaware County, 1992 and 1993) have an in-town outpost at 7th and Chestnut, which has recently been rechristened.
We obviously have to return to South Philly again, and we haven't even begun to tackle the 'burbs yet, but I'd go for an in-town swing this time, with Mama Palma's and NYPD (another place with excellent thin-crust pizza) as the must-visits, plus perhaps one or two others. What say you all?
I love the S Philly idea!
About Towne: In the days it won the prize, it had for several years been a favorite of my late DH, our circle of friends and me. By the early 1980s, it seemed to have deteriorated. We all stopped going there or ordering delivery from there. Butyou never know--in another 25 years it may have found its froove again. Pietro's is definitely upscale--not really to be compared with the neighborhood places, IMO.
Anyway, I'm game to join in! :-)~~~~
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Somebody mentioned a market at 69th Street. I was especially interested in the reference to Korean food, including sesame leaves. I have not been there in quite a few years... What days does this market operate? What are the hours? If I take the El to 69th Street from Center City, what are the directions once there?
Thanks.
The store is at 7050 Terminal Square.
Exit 69th Street Terminal on its south side (main entrance) and cross over to the south side of Market Street. Terminal Square is the street just past Garrett Road, which ends at Market at 69th Street Terminal's west end.
Hang a left onto Terminal Square and walk up a half block. You can't miss it, but if you pass the Shiseido store, you've gone too far.
Thank you!
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If you are looking for another way to use it, pomegranate cheesecake is to die for. Elegant all out of proportion to what it actually is.
Ooooh!
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This should be asked on the cooking forum or in the Middle East & Africa forum, but...
Find a moroquian shop, buy the specially mixed spices for pinchos, buy a minced lamb leg and marinate it with the spices, onion and lemon for three days. Roast over a charcoal grill.
But if you want the fake version of what they sell as pinchos morunos on the spanish bars. Do it with pork chunks and paprika. Not my cup of tea if you ask.
Thank you! Do you know what is included in the spice mixture? There are no Moroccan shops where I live.
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Somebody mentioned a market at 69th Street. I was especially interested in the reference to Korean food, including sesame leaves. I have not been there in quite a few years... What days does this market operate? What are the hours? If I take the El to 69th Street from Center City, what are the directions once there?
Thanks.
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Well, at least they're from lamb and not pork. Pinchos Alhucemas is the name they use at Tapas 24.
Now that I no longer live in Spain, I miss pinchos morunos. Can you tell me how to make them at home? !Gracias!
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Thanks!
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I'm not really surprised that therre are so many different styles, although I am surprised that the styles are so widely divergent. In the US at least I think it is fair to say that "Spanish-style chorizo" means a cured chorizo, while "Mexican-style" means a fresh pork sausage. Of course, that is not to say that all "mexican chorizo" is all of the same style or flavoring either.
It's also about the spicing, the flavor.
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I think that part of the confusion in the US about Spanish chorizo is due to the fact that, as far as I know, only one brand of chorizo is allowed into the country from Spain. That's Palacios brand, which comes in regular and hot versions. There are, however, at least a couple of producers in the US that market Spanish-style sausage of a variety of types, and all I have had have been good, though I assume still different than the real article.
The Palacios brand may be more available in some parts of the US than others. Here in Dallas it is sold in most main stream grocery stores, as well as specialty markets. I always keep a couple of rings hanging in the kitchen.
Cantimpalos is my favorite. I wish it were available in the US!
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I'm going to have to stop over in Frankfurt a few times in the next year or so. How much did this meal cost? Do you know other good restaurants there, too? Thx.
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Here's some info about Russian cuisine (including 19th century info) that I found through Google:
A history of Russian cuisine, including the 19th century. The English is slightly and IMO charmingly stilted--I can almost hear it being spoken with an accent.
Another historic survey, this one courtesy of Aeroflot.
This Moscow restaurant put a lot of little informative notes about the history of almost every dish on its extensive menu (click the "menu" link at the top of the page).
The main things I picked up:
1) Yep, 19th century Russian cuisine definitely showed a lot of heavy influence from France and other European countries, but with a definite filtering through Russian food traditions.
2) Because of the influence of the Russian Orthodox church, which required a huge number of fast days, traditional Russian cuisine has a whole lot of fish and vegetable dishes.
3) Blini and Russian black bread apparently go back centuries, and everyone, rich and poor, ate these foods for centuries.
4) Soups and grain dishes were also popular with both rich and poor.
5) Vodka and tea (served from a samovar, sucked through a cube of sugar held between the teeth) were apparently very big in the 19th century.
Enjoy!
I appreciate your list and links.
Now, can anybody tell me, would Checkhov have likely eathen the same? If ot, what do you think he'd have eaten?
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I have a 10-oz./300ml bottle of Baroody Pomegranate Concentrated Juice,
product of Lebanon. Haven't opened it yet. If you tip it sideways, you see it is so thick it coats the half-inch of headspace at the top and takes a few seconds to flow back down. Nothing on the label indicates how concentrated it is, or how much to dilute it to use in recipes or just for making juice to drink. Does anybody have any idea?
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I never buy cakes or cookies; I make them. The only thing I ever bought from Braverman's was truffles, and they were the best. I miss those truffles.
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How about Ukrainian salo? Ukrainians believe nobody who is not Ukrainian can like it. Salo is like bacon, but not smoked. it is sliced thicker and not cooked before eating. I first visited Ukraine and tasted salo after age 50. Ukrainians were surprised and pleased that I liked it.
i can't believe someone beat me to the punch! that was the first thing that came to mind when i read the title of the thread. Salo is not smoked but it is cured in some way and is basically just the fatty part of bacon...sliced thicker and very delicious with some fresh bread, salt, and green onion!
Yes! A kind of buterbrot. Are you Ukrainian and a lifelong eater of salo or a later-in-life fan like me?
i was born in ukraine so i grew up eating it, but i haven't had it since living in america...have tried some stuff in russian stores but it doesn't compare to the stuff in ukraine
Ah! You noticed too. I thought it was just me. Where in Ukraine were you born? Where do you live now? I live in Philadelpia and am working on adopting a sibling group in Sumy (northeast).
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What wonderful pizza excursions! I hope there will be another one soon.
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[in place of Celebre's, we finished with water ice at Rita's, one block down at Jackson Street, partly in response to a request from a reader of my foodblog.
Jason went with the lemon, which was flecked with bits of peel.
Oh, yessss! Rita'sa has the wrld's best lemon water ice! (Wwe need a drooling smily!)
PIZZA CLUB 2006
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