10 posts tagged “food”
STOP!
You have been warned!
My life is just that boring.
I am looking forward to LOST tonight.
No James Marsden sitings at NASA yet. And believe me, I want to see this!
I'll probably have apple cobbler for dinner.
No thanks to UPS, I finally received my order from the Solvang Bakery! Why they shipped it UPS Ground I have no idea! Oh well, I forgive them!!!
Of course it has to do with food.
I never blogged here about my trip to Solvang, California this past October. But I did over at my TypePad blog.
Anyway, while in Solvang I stuffed my face with danish pastry.
Well, guess what, The Solvang Bakery now has an online store.
Let the villagers rejoice!
And now I need a loan to pay off my credit card.
Have any of you ever been? I've been wanting to go to Ruth's Chris, like forever, but I am never in the vicinity of one when I have money. Morton's is down in the Hilton's lobby, so I gave it a go last night.
I wanted to take photos (especially when they wheeled out this cart with steaks on it as big as a cow's head) but the servers were the hovering type and probably would have leapt on me to wrestle the camera from my hands thinking that I was from PETA and up to no good .
So, like I said, they wheeled out this cart to show you your cuts of meat (I'm giggling right now, because I just thought of that skit on Letterman called: Know Your Cuts of Meat) and your cuts of fish and the size of your vegetables. I know, "your size of vegetables"... world's largest: po.ta.toes, as Samwise would say.
Everything on the menu is ala carte, meaning cha-ching! I mean, come on, a $42 rib eye... A RIB EYE! Do you know how many rib eyes I can buy in the grocery store back home for that? Not having it, I ordered the $29 Salmon fillet. (I know, shoot me now!) with a side of sauteed spinach and mushrooms ($8... most reasonably priced vegetable on the menu) and a Cosmopolitan, $13... apparently not having learned my lesson at McCormick and Schmicks... who, incidentally sent me a preferred member application in my email this morning... 'tis the season)
Since I am an idiot, I came hungry and weak and ordered an appetizer: Scallops wrapped in Bacon with Spiced Apple Chutney sounded too good to pass up... until they brought me three of the most flavorless scallops they had wrapped in the blandest bacon imaginable. THREE... for $20. Stab me in my eye!!!
I will give credit where it is due, though, the salmon was broiled to perfection and the spinach and mushrooms were heavenly... and loaded with a stick of butter, I am sure... simply delicious.
The damage: almost $80 (dessert and coffee being out of the question... I just stopped by the Starbucks in the lobby). Of course I can never afford to eat at Morton's again in life, but it is good to try these things at least once.
I modified this salad from Ben Trott's recipe (which I stole...without permission). Ben's salad called for bacon and frisee lettuce, but I had pancetta on hand and frisee wasn't available today in our supermarket. I added grape tomatoes because this salad needed another layer of flavor.
(click photo to "super-size"... not recommended if you are hungry)
Salad
Mixed salad greens
Fried Pancetta
Poached Egg
Grape tomatoes
Minced shallots
Fresh bread - torn into chunks
Salt & pepper
Dressing
1 part Dijon mustard
1 part red wine vinegar
1 part olive oil
...It just doesn't look like dal.
Of course since I love Whole Foods Market so much that I want to marry it, I downloaded their Indian Dal recipe from its website.
Before I left Alexandria last week, I bought a load of goodies home with me to make dal at home. The recipe called for red lentils but the ingredients at the hot food bar in Whole Foods said they used green.
Hmmm? A tad too green; I think I should have used red. But the smell in here at the moment is heavenly!
