mrbigjas

it really depends on where east of broad you're talking about--if it's down around 5th & tasker or where 7th & moyamensing cross, things get mighty sketchy mighty fast. or, for that matter, around 13th & fitzwater. but if you stick to 10th/11th street, that will take you from center city to the stadium without a hitch, safety-wise. to keep it food-related, and specifically philadelphia food: if you go to a game, when the game is over walk back up 11th street to shunk (about six blocks) and hang a left. on the northeast corner of 12th & shunk is italiano's water ice, home to the best water ice in town. get the mango. it's fantastic--it tastes more like mango than mangoes do. black cherry is great too. water ice and a pretzel with mustard--afternoon snack of champions, and you'll definitely be getting to a local part of philadelphia that most tourists don't see. there's not much else to recommend that neighborhood right there to tourists; it's mostly residential. but italiano's... man oh man. i think i'll head down there tomorrow. (actually i'm not sure how late at night italiano's is open, but i'm relatively sure it's open after baseball games)

wow, thank you all! these recommendations are fantastic. i'll admit that i didn't even think of looking in the NY times, thinking that LBI was below the philadelphia/new york line (aka seaside heights). i'll report back.

i looked it up when i read rich's post: $20 for the 1999, $30 for the 2000.

you're the best, project.

with a pound of bacon and a whole can of campbell's beef consomme* you're not sure it's salty enough? * (810 mg sodium per 1/2 cup serving; the cans are 14 oz, right? let's just say 1600 mg for argument's sake, but there's probably more than a cup in a can)

Are you looking for more casual beach fare or a little fancier? ← anything! either-or. we'll be down there for a week, just the two of us, and the mrs is pregnant, so we're not going to be doing a ton of bar-hopping. we'll probably hit up a nice place once or twice during the week, and do some cooking in, but good cheap beachy places would be greatly appreciated as well, since we'll be out and about throughout the week and can't eat fancy every night... i've never been to LBI before, and i've looked around on line, but as always i like to hear from the folks here on eg before heading out.

i totally looked for this on sunday but didn't see it. i gotta get back there when it's not such a madhouse.

Way to take one for the team! ← hahaha, i didn't mean it that way, but that's how it ended up. having a little hot sauce available would have done wonders for the thing. and maybe a piece of lettuce for texture.

Funny, because I wouldn't order a vegan burger on principle. Is it possible to eat responsibly at a ballgame? Should you even try? Think of how you could change the words to "Take Me Out to the Ballgame", buy me some veggie burgers and tofu snacks, if you do then I'll never come back.... Hey, I just try to leave the park in condition to drive home. Thats as responsible as I can be. ← oh it's not about eating responsibly. there are a hell of a lot of people out there who don't eat meat; and while i don't think that people who make that lifestyle choice should be pandered to at the expense of everyone else, providing them with an option at the ballpark besides fries with a 'cheese cup' is, i think, the least that ballparks should do. so yeah, so i bought a vegan burger, just on the principle that if they sell a few, they'll continue to offer the option.

anyone have any? we'll be in beach haven next week-ish. i know it's early season but i haven't heard of much yet...

campbell's. actually i could swear i posted this same question as one of my first posts on egullet. but i could be wrong. i remember the main gist of the replies was that city tavern makes one. but i think i've seen their recipe in some cookbook or other and it doesn't even involve tripe. you have to ask yourself, what's even the point then? i wish there were a restaurant in town that could serve dishes like this, without being all self-referential and ironic or historical.

yeah, you're going to pay $6.75 for a sly fox, or a victory hop devil, or a flying fish (i forget which one they generally have). but they are available. last game i went to, i got the vegan burger. did i want it? not really, but i think that ballparks should be thinking like that more often, so i bought it on principle. i think it was a boca burger. anyway, it was as bland and mushy as you might imagine. i haven't seen much else new of interest this year at the park. (as an aside, i have bought a case each of the sly fox pikeland pils and .... the pale ale, i forget the name, in cans. and besides the fact that i think that brewery makes fantastic beer, for some reason i'm really enjoying the cans. i think it's because my fridge has a can holder. but i'd like to think it's a tribute to my upstate pennsylvania, cans of red white & blue and/or pabst and/or gennesee roots. it's a serious mental disconnect to drop $25 on a case of canned beer, though).

i've been rather enjoying the wink-wink aspect of it too, but it still doesn't make me feel better about using this gift certificate for lacroix that i have.

wow, yeah, that's.... not like the one in the cookbook.

wow, nice demo! thank you! i have to admit that i only make tortillas sometimes, when i'm feeling like doing something a little special. the rest of the time i get them from a tex-mex place here in town that makes pretty nice ones. but they're definitely way better homemade...

i've got this too. i was wondering if the veal croquettes from the magazines are the same ones in the cookbook. they didn't strike me as that odd.

oh don't get the wrong impression--it was damn good. just kinda salty for my tastes. salt preferences vary so much among people that it doesn't even count as a problem in my book, just something to note. nah the place was such a madhouse that i just moved on. i scoured the produce section pretty well though, i thought. yeah rereading my post from just a couple of hours ago it appears more negative than i thought it was. don't get the wrong impression, it's a great big coolio supermarket, with tons of good stuff. but i don't know that it's worth to me, as a non-car-oriented city person, to jet out to the suburbs just to go to a supermarket.

i stopped over at the new wegmans on sunday, because i was in cherry hill anyway. it was, of course, a total mob scene. but the prepared food section is giant, and the food is pretty damn good (although the sauteed bean/escarole thing i had and the soup my wife had were both super salty). the produce area is big and nice, with many more of everything but not as many things as at, say, iovine's or really even whole foods. for instance, there were mountains of red and green bell peppers, and long hots, and jalapenos. but no poblanos, no serranos, no habaneros, no thai chilis. they had a big section of ripe organic avocados, which were a little pricey at $1.50 each, but when was the last time you saw a ripe avocado in the store? they had a big goya section, which is awesome. they have a big ol' organic section, which sells all kinds of stuff, from foodstuff to environmentally friendly cleaning products to organic nicey-nice pet food. there's a whole separate little tea section in the back, which is cool. their meat (and especially the... prepared meat? like their house-cured ham, sausages, cured fish, etc) section is good, both in price and selection. the place is pretty impressive, but is it worth a trip to cherry hill? not in my book. if you can make it to the terminal, the whole foods, and the pathmark on grey's ferry ave, you can replicate most of the experience. and personally i prefer to run around town rather than going over the bridge. but if you're in the neighborhood and need stuff--and especially if you want to make only one trip--it's a good option, assuming the the hordes and hordes of shoppers die down. you could barely move in there on sunday.

greg, is raw ever going to open for saturday lunch, or is that not in the plans?

PWI alert! 5 a.m. drunk and spending time on eG, woo.....

we made this trip last year. the church brew works is pretty good--it's a brewpub with solid food (pizzas, salads and the like) and damn good beer in the very cool setting of an old deconsecrated church. really nice. http://www.churchbrew.com

yep. i did the dough with about 50/50 semolina (this was white semolina flour, really very finely ground) and AP, totalling just over a cup. one small egg. saffron dissolved in about 2T hot water. then when things were lookin dry, i added about another tablespoon or two of water. i started in the food processor, then kneaded it for a little while, adding some flour till it didn't stick and was the texture that seemed right, then rested for about 1/2 hour or 45 minutes. when i first started rolling it out, the dough sprang back enough to make me nervous, but then it just kinda gave up, and rolled out really nicely. thanks for the tips--i don't think it's your fault; i think it's the ricotta i got. i have some filling left over; i may experiment with it tonight.

thanks--what the pic doesn't capture is how intensely yellow they were. i used the last of my local pennsylvania saffron for the dough. apparently back in the day PA used to be known regionally for its saffron production, and indeed it's good. makes for a really interestingly-flavored dough, too.. yeah, not too far off from a spanish grenache, actually. not quite as fruity as some of them can be--a little rough around the edges but not unpleasantly so. i really enjoyed it. i thought the same thing, and put some in to marinate last night...

Those little shoots picked off and planted by my son. They are also good to eat. ← they are? i thought tomato stems and leaves were poisonous...

ha! i've had that same problem. i just got hot sour salty sweet for my birthday, and the first recipe i made out of it was for summer rolls, which said to soak the vermicelli for 20 minutes, and then boil them for 2 minutes. well, the instant they hit the boiling water, they just turned into those same sauerkrauty-lookin lumps of noodles. they merged with each other, turning into slimy blobs of noodle-esque material... i gave up and threw them away, and soaked another batch, which i then steamed like the noodle package said to do. they were still sticky as hell, but not as bad as that... anyway, i feel for ya. i really do.