Lunch! What'd ya have? (2014–2015)

btbyrd · May 14, 2015

Beef cheek pastrami sandwich with smoked gouda. Until today, I really wasn't pleased with the beef cheek pastrami recipe in Modernist Cuisine, which calls for bagging the cheeks with their brine after you've smoked them. This step seems totally unnecessary (and ChefSteps doesn't list it in their updated Short Rib recipe, which is otherwise the same) and it absolutely ruins the spice rub and crusty exterior. It ends up mushy and without enough of a spicy bite.

After two sad cheek sandwiches, I decided to try rubbing the finished cheeks with some excess rub and searing them hard on a screaming hot grill (with some wood pellets on there too to add a final bit of smoke). I really, really wanted a decent crusty exterior, so when they were almost done I hit them hard with the Searzall. Bingo, bango, bongo... THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT! Giant improvement... it made the final product actually worth the trouble of the recipe. Just when I thought I might never make these again, I'm starting to think about another batch.

Anna N · May 15, 2015

Mushroon risoniotto from The River Cottege Veg cookbook.

kayb · May 16, 2015

Asparagus with a fried egg yolk, and bacon. Kinda brunchy; acceptable, I guess, as it was about 11:15.

Anna N · May 16, 2015

Cabbage rolls.

CatPoet · May 17, 2015

Home made falafel with home made Lebanese flat bread. Yes I made this my self, ground the beans in my meat grinder ( it is cleaned and disinfected and safe to use) and we had it for lunch, now I have 3 kilos more of falafel dough to freeze in.

Anna N · May 17, 2015

Lightly roasted vegetables dressed with miso butter and served over orzo.

kayb · May 17, 2015

Huevos rancheros.

i used arepas I'd made a few days ago and frozen (not as good as fresh, but good); Las Palmas enchilada sauce, and ricotta salata in lieu of queso fresco.

Dejah · May 18, 2015

Green papaya shrimp salad for lunch today:

green papaya, carrot, tomato, beansprouts, cilantro, lime zest, lime-chili roasted peanuts, blanched green beans. Dressing: fish sauce, lime juice, rice vinegar, tamarind water,Truvia (daughter on sugar-free diet), little bit of broth from cooking the shrimp,

Quite refreshing and a riff on the salad I made in the Vietnamese cooking class I took on our trip to Vietnam.

kwankapang · May 20, 2015

Have the wonderful Hainanese Chicken with rice for lunch

liamsaunt · May 23, 2015

I am vacationing with family in one of our favorite spots, Wellfleet MA. It is funny, I have lived in MA for most of my life, but did not start coming to the Cape until about four years ago. We tend to visit on either end of season to avoid the mega-tourist periods. Yesterday some of us had lunch at Winslow's Tavern.

Gin and tonic with cucumber and summer in a glass cocktails:

Burratta crostini with bottarga and chile oil

crab cake sandwich

smoked mussel flatbread

scallop roll

**Shelby** · May 23, 2015

Ohhhhhhhh Liamsaunt, could you be Shelby's Aunt and feed me one of each??? Especially that scallop roll. Heavenly looking.

liamsaunt · May 23, 2015

I would happily trade a scallop roll for some of that produce from your garden that you have shown on the dinner thread, Shelby. It is still too cold here to put a garden in. I am hoping to get mine in the first week of June.

Today's lunch adventure was at Mac's Shack. This is my group's favorite Wellfleet restaurant. Cocktails to start. Left to right a mescalito, a ginny and the peach, and a blueberry vodka lemonade.

The adult guys split an order of clams casino

The ladies shared a spicy tuna mango martini

and some halibut turadito

then got some sushi. There is a ganja mon roll and crunchy crab in the picture. The ganja mon roll was for my niece. I don't like rolls with cream cheese in them

we also got a spicy tuna roll and my niece wanted quail eggs

my husband and brother both got lobster rolls

brother in law got a flounder BLT

not pictured, my nephew's boring cheeseburger :-)

the kids got key lime pie for dessert.

And yes people have started asking when dinner is...

Edited May 23, 2015 by liamsaunt (log)

Anna N · May 25, 2015

Home made onion bhajis.

gfweb · May 25, 2015

Stuffed broiled sweet peppers

Anna N · May 25, 2015

Stuffed broiled sweet peppers

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These look really good. What did you stuff them with? Please?

gfweb · May 25, 2015

Thanks, Anna!

Breakfast sausage (garlic/marjoram), parmesano reggiano , hot sauce, just enough cream cheese to bind it. Panko on top (which browned-up nicely tho you couldn't tell from the photo), then broiled in the BSO.

Funny enough, it was inspired by something that you posted months ago that stuck in my mind.

FauxPas · May 25, 2015

Also posted in the Salad thread. Lunch today was steam-baked baby beets and Warba nugget potatoes. Loosely based on this Beet & Potato salad. On a bed of fresh beet greens. Potatoes and diced onions dressed with a vinaigrette and garnished with beets and feta cheese. Not sure about the cooked egg yolk in the dressing, is that familiar to anyone?

Anna N · May 25, 2015

Thanks, Anna!

Breakfast sausage (garlic/marjoram), parmesano reggiano , hot sauce, just enough cream cheese to bind it. Panko on top (which browned-up nicely tho you couldn't tell from the photo), then broiled in the BSO.

Funny enough, it was inspired by something that you posted months ago that stuck in my mind.

Thanks! Nothing wrong with cross-fertilization.

**Smithy** · May 25, 2015

Also posted in the Salad thread. Lunch today was steam-baked baby beets and Warba nugget potatoes. Loosely based on this Beet & Potato salad. On a bed of fresh beet greens. Potatoes and diced onions dressed with a vinaigrette and garnished with beets and feta cheese. Not sure about the cooked egg yolk in the dressing, is that familiar to anyone?

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The salad looks beautiful. I've had that sort of vinaigrette before, with the boiled-egg yolks. About half the time it seemed really to hold together as an emulsified blend (using my whisk) and the rest of the time it was delicious anyway. I haven't tried it since I got an immersion blender; maybe I'll (heh) give that a whirl.

FauxPas · May 26, 2015

The salad looks beautiful. I've had that sort of vinaigrette before, with the boiled-egg yolks. About half the time it seemed really to hold together as an emulsified blend (using my whisk) and the rest of the time it was delicious anyway. I haven't tried it since I got an immersion blender; maybe I'll (heh) give that a whirl.

I used my immersion blender and it did hold together quite well. Nice pun! :wink:

Anna N · May 27, 2015

Couscous tossed with butter, parmesan, parsley and lemon zest (I am out of garlic!) and topped with roasted vegetables.

Okanagancook · May 27, 2015

Anna, that's a lovely looking lunch. The lemon zest is a great touch!

Anna N · May 27, 2015

Anna, that's a lovely looking lunch. The lemon zest is a great touch!

Thanks. I am not a huge fan of couscous but I am a huge fan of fast food on occasion and few things are faster than couscous!

Edited to insert a word so that the sentence makes some sense.

Edited May 27, 2015 by Anna N (log)

liamsaunt · May 28, 2015

The other day we had lunch at what is probably Wellfleet's most famous restaurant, the Beachcomber. This is a converted Coast Guard shack on a dune that serves food during the day and can be a live music venue at night. It is only open seasonally as there is no insulation in the walls. WE always eat here on opening weekend (Memorial Day) and closing weekend (Labor Day).

My brother in law's Goombay Smash (sadly, the rest of us had boring iced tea or lemonade as we were driving home to work for a couple of days before heading back here last night)