Lunch! What'd ya have? (Late 2016–Early 2017)

[shain]

Crisp and warm roll with avocado, sirene cheese, raw onion slices, black pepper and chili.

Chopped vegetable salad with tahini sauce.

[Spork]

Fries with sour cream and scallion, venison tartare, and a salad.

 

 

[chefmd]

Rockfish with spaghetti squash, dry cured olives, parsley.

 

[robirdstx]

Today, my husband and I stopped for lunch at the Los Cucos Mexican Cafe in Friendswood.

 

 

He had the Pork Tacos - two corn tortillas filled with pork carnitas mixed with onions, peppers and cilantro; served with refried beans, Mexican rice and salsa verde.

 

 

I had the Tacos Plazeros - one each beef fajita and pork carnitas in corn tortillas topped with grilled onions, queso fresco, cilantro and avocado; served with borracho beans, pickled vegetables, pico de gallo and salsa verde.

 

 

Edited November 6, 2016 by robirdstx (log)

[Anna N]

 

Not sure if this actually qualifies as a toastie. But that's what it is. I caramelized some onions over a couple of hours, put some serious colour on some mushrooms, toasted a slice of homemade white bread and then sliced some cheddar cheese on top before slipping it under the broiler for a minute or two.  

[Captain]

On 04/11/2016 at 10:42 AM, sartoric said:

 

 

 oyster bay Sauvignon Blanc.

 

 

 

 

 

I love that wine. And Ninth Island wines.  Great Pinot Noir  there also.

This was my Sunday lunch

 

 

Edited November 6, 2016 by Captain (log)

[gfweb]

On 11/2/2016 at 5:02 PM, BeeZee said:

. It's fun when I have to go in to Center City, I can map out all the places to stop along the way for my treats.

 

Me too. I had lunch Sat at Cheu. Really good.

[kayb]

1 hour ago, gfweb said:

 

Me too. I had lunch Sat at Cheu. Really good.

 

When I'm in Center City (unfortunately, not for a long time now), I always had to go to that cheesesteak place just off Rittenhouse Square (on South St.? I forget my Philly geography). But my favorite meal -- perhaps my best (Italian) meal ever -- remains the homemade ravioli and meatballs at Villa di Roma on Ninth. If a meatball can be sublime, these were sublime. Hell, no "if" to it. These suckers were sublime.

 

[gfweb]

6 minutes ago, kayb said:

 

When I'm in Center City (unfortunately, not for a long time now), I always had to go to that cheesesteak place just off Rittenhouse Square (on South St.? I forget my Philly geography). But my favorite meal -- perhaps my best (Italian) meal ever -- remains the homemade ravioli and meatballs at Villa di Roma on Ninth. If a meatball can be sublime, these were sublime. Hell, no "if" to it. These suckers were sublime.

 

 

Rittenhouse Sq is a ways from South St. I bet you are thinking of Jim's which is right on South St.

 

So many great places, holes-in-the-wall to serious joints, in Philly. Villa de Roma is a good old red gravy place.

 

Philly has two Iron Chefs (Garzas and Morimoto)  and two Top Chef winners (Sbraga and Elmi) who are pretty much cooking in their restaurants  (exc Morimoto who isn't there much). And more than a few young hotshots. Great place to feed.

 

[kayb]

11 hours ago, gfweb said:

 

Rittenhouse Sq is a ways from South St. I bet you are thinking of Jim's which is right on South St.

 

So many great places, holes-in-the-wall to serious joints, in Philly. Villa de Roma is a good old red gravy place.

 

Philly has two Iron Chefs (Garzas and Morimoto)  and two Top Chef winners (Sbraga and Elmi) who are pretty much cooking in their restaurants  (exc Morimoto who isn't there much). And more than a few young hotshots. Great place to feed.

 

 

Have eaten at Morimoto's. Very good. I loved the dessert presentation of three scoops of  sorbet on a slab of ice with three "dimples" in it to hold the sorbet. Never managed to make it to Le Bec Fin. However, the best German food I ever ate was at the Austrian Village in Huntingdon Valley.

[HungryChris]

Tripe soup from Adam's Polish Food in Vernon, CT. The first time I was in the store the tripe soup was just being put in the case, still hot from the stove. Both the staff and other customers treated it with such obvious reverence, that I was intrigued. I had to try it! Now I try and get some every time we find ourselves in the area.

HC

 

 

[Duvel]

Nice lunch at Kikusan, a Japanese fusion restaurant in the Landmark building in Central.

 

I opted for cold tofu with avocado, miso-marinated cod and a sushi sampler. Oolong tea.

 

Will go there again ...

 

[HungryChris]

Brie on rosemary and olive oil crackers, beet and onion salad with blue cheese crumbles and our favorite olives brought back from Italy.

HC

[scubadoo97]

Green peas and rice seasoned with ground coriander 

[sartoric]

Lunch in Bridport on the north coast of Tasmania. 

The $10 battered fish & chips for me, a medium rare steak sandwich for he who must be fed.

Plus a view.

 

 

[scubadoo97]

Nice view

[chefmd]

Left over pork ribs reheated in CSO with potatoes, peppers, and red onions on the side.  The last of Lao Gan Ma.

 

[HungryChris]

Another grilled Reuben with corned beef tongue (on Aldi seeded rye).

HC

[robirdstx]

The Salad I did not have with Dinner last night was today's Lunch, with some of this morning's bacon added.

 

 

A mix of romaine and baby greens with chopped hard cooked egg, sliced button mushrooms, ripe black olives, roma tomato, shredded cheese, the bacon, slivered almonds and crunchies with a honey mustard dressing.

Edited November 12, 2016 by robirdstx (log)

[Anna N]

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Lleftovers reheated and somewhat transformed. I hit the sweet potato purée with a healthy dose of allspice  and I cut up and trimmed some more of the pork roast.  Had I not been quite so hungry I might've made it a little prettier but it was my stomach that needed attention and I was not about to eat this with my eyes. 

Edited November 12, 2016 by Anna N (log)

[rarerollingobject]

From here on, I'll post on the Hong Kong board, because I know this is Cooking and all, but this WAS my lunch (am in HK for a week and then moving onto Seoul):

 

Edited November 13, 2016 by rarerollingobject (log)

[BonVivant]

^^ East beats West!

 

From my food hell at the far reaches of north western Europe:

 

 

 

Black radish. In the sake cup is pink salt and Turkish Isot Biber (smoked pepper flakes).

 

 

Cured for 4 days, left to dry in the fridge for another 5. Smoked for a bit. Fan.bloody.tastic!

 

 

Any longer would be a bit dry. This is still moist and the way I like it. There are juniper berries in the cure. I used a bit of orange pekoe tea, Sichuan peppercorns and mesquite chips for smoking.

 

[Anna N]

No photo but lunch was appropriately heavenly for Sunday. A slice of rustic bread topped with this blue cheese.  I am very fortunate to have a friend who does not particularly like blue cheeses but manages to bring me gifts of some amazing ones. 

[Martin Fisher]

39 minutes ago, Anna N said:

I am very fortunate to have a friend who does not particularly like blue cheeses but manages to bring me gifts of some amazing ones. 

 

I wish I had such a friend! 

[kayb]

Lunch today was one of my better efforts. I had cured a salmon filet per Kenji's gravlax recipe (with coriander and dill). With deviled eggs and silver-dollar-sized latkes.

 

 

Some of the latkes got apple butter, instead.

 

Not shown is the mustard dill sauce for the gravlax.