Dinner Sunday March 1, 2009

When I finally got home from shooting, I had some bread and cheese. My diet is so low carb these days that I think I got a little hypoglycemic and nodded off. When I woke up, I realized I had missed my dinner invitation at Shanon's, so I took advantage of the hamburger I had defrosted the other day.


I looked up a few hamburger recipes on the web, and it quickly became clear that they were variations on a theme. One egg, maybe some garlic, maybe some other spices. Occasionally I saw bread crumbs.

I opted for an egg, a few cloves of garlic and a little horse radish. I wasn't too sure how to tell when it was done, so I cooked one side, turned it over and added the cheese, and removed it from the heat when the cheese was done. The middle of the burger was not as pink as the burger I had at Dumont, but it was so juicy I think it was OK. Next time I will ask around for tips and use a higher heat.

Meal:

• Burger with horseradish
  
• Toppings were tomato and bread and butter pickles
• Broccoli rabe

Broccoli rabe is my new favorite vegetable.

Breakfast Sunday March 1, 2009

Breakfast was two eggs, scrapple, strawberries, and coffee with milk. Scrapple seems to be some sort of farmers' sausage with cornmeal. It was not bad, but I had such a bad go at cooking it I was a little nervous to eat it. It had a nicely-spiced flavor, with the corn meal providing a pleasant texture.

Dinner Saturday February 28, 2009

After waiting and waiting for Monster Track to start and then running around almost-fruitlessly to catch some of it, I was cold, starving and fairly cranky. So after catching the last manifest hand-off at Affinity I dropped all my gear (which was A LOT), parked the scooter, and ordered a lamb burger from Wombat 613.


I had time to take Yatika to pick up some dry clothes at my place. He had sweat too much and was freezing.

The burger was almost but not quite dry, but still pretty good. It came with under-cooked parsley fries. They were tasty. but somewhat raw.

Breakfast Saturday February 28, 2009

Another neo-classical breakfast. Two strips of bacon, two eggs, a few pieces of hearty sourdough toast, and of course coffee with milk. The Bacon is from Triangle Organic, and is the best I've had. Although Henry was on point with his Flying Pigs recommendation, the Triangle Organics bacon is a more solid choice. As delicious as Flying Pigs was, it was also very showy, sort of like so-called craft brews. Triangle tastes like small 'b' bacon; Flying Pig tastes like re-imagined bacon.

Lunch Friday February 27, 2009

Continuing on with the lighter theme, I didn't forgo meat, but it was only a little and it wasn't red.

For lunch I went to Green Symphony with Andrew. I loaded up my plate with a potato samosa, some pesto chicken salad, roasted mushrooms and braised cauliflower. I treated myself to a pecan bar and washed it all down with Pellogrino water.

Breakfast Friday February 27, 2009

After a full week of eating meat, it was time to lighten it up a bit and have some more fruits and vegetables. So I started with breakfast. Today I had raw milk cottage cheese with granola and strawberries. It was all washed down with the regular stove-top espresso with raw milk.

Raw milk cottage cheese is truly amazing. Eating it is like eating sweet butter, but not quite as rich. So you can actually have an entire cup and not just a pat.

Dinner Thursday February 26, 2009

Tonight was man-networking night at Primehouse as organized by Marcus. I showed up right after my WOD, so I was pretty mellow. I was so mellow that Marcus couldn't believe it. Once we had a quorum and were seated, the bread got my blood sugar back up to the point were I was foaming at the mouth in a more typical fashion.

Happily they had extended their restaurant week offering, which we all went for with a side apiece and some wine. Mine was a beet salad. So that tallied up to:
Beet Salad
Lobster Cassoulet
Petit Filet Mignon
Chocolate Hazelnut Torte

It was a delicious dinner with good conversation. I definitely agree with review that said Primehouse was a little gimmicky but had great meat. I had my filet medium rare, and it was very tender and had a nice beef flavor. Next time I eat steak, I will give rare a shot. I discussed this possibilty with a co-worker, and he told me a story about ordering steak rare and it being cold in hte middle. I will risk it.