potatoes

kinda half ass video I got really distracted but.
take some potatoes. cut them. cut garlic, onion and mushrooms and roast with spiced like salt and pepper, 21 season salute from trader joes, hot pepper flakes. enjoy after about an hour.


Had a serious case of the mondays if you couldn't tell.

Sandy Sunday

Mmm Brunch once again, this time no prime rib.
Still an abundance of seafood casserole which I had some mild guilt taking.
The hard working server boys were just staring waiting for their turn.
On one hand I don't care about them because they are just local high school kids who don't talk to me and don't seem that interesting other then their cherub boyish faces. But I know they work 10X harder then me because well lets face it, like right now, I am blogging at work, and they are cleaning up nasty food debris.
But enough guilt I got a better pick while they watched.
The bartender for some reason got an official invite by Chefy to eat while I just followed because no one ever tells me its time to eat, which means I have to be extra scavenger like in order to get something good around here.
Fuck those blitzes that no one ever touches, I want the good stuff, and the prime rib is probably the most prized brunch option.
There was only fat left today.
So I had some turkey or chicken unclear what it is for sure, that was stuffed with lots of stuffing, and oats were spread about, assuming they were part of the stuffing. It was OK, it reminded me of The Century House Epicurean Shoppe. There was some light gravy, but obvi if there were leftovers it wasn't such a winner today out of the proteins.
Some eggs Benedict looked sad with oats on the bottom of their trey, maybe the oats scared people away.
Over all my favorite guilty pleasure of the spread is probably the soggy Cesar salad. I don't know why, but its just really good and covered in dressing and cheese. It reminds me of the time I spent a weekend with my friend Zach Rose in Portland, OR where after a night of bar hoping he indulged himself in leftover soggy Cesar salad.
The scallops are aways yummy with the rich seafood filling on my plate and the touch of sand in between my teeth always makes me think of the ocean, and sitting on the beach with a sandwich with sand inside.

Quiche

Brunch f-ing rules!

Getting up early on a Sunday for working the brunch shift at the yacht club officially has its extremely awesome bennys!

Lets start with the chocolate fountain they had set up. Yummy for no reason. The spread was unbelievable for these Sunday patrons and the staff got the leftovers!

It included LO's of all kinds of delish. I helped myself to some Caesar salad, prime rib, seafood casserole which included: lobster, shrimp, succulent scallops, and cod. I also had some green beans and other various steamed veggies, and a diet coke. I went for the more savory option because lets face it, when in Rome, it the goods. There was also an array of breakfast option including eggs Benedict which according to health codes should be left out because the sauce has to be at a certain temperature at all times or it starts to grow bacteria (thanks A.Bourdain). Blitz's with jam, Belgian waffles, scrambled eggs which I think came from a carton, home fried potatoes (same family of fried goodness as the french fries they feed us), sausages, cream cheese and bagels, fresh fruit, cakes of all kinds. These brunch left overs don't even start to compare to the weekly grind of the other crap they often serve us the staff here. I am very happy getting up at 8am on Sunday knowing I will have some delish-ness lunch waiting for me. Also some manic over drugged yacht club women picking out the right color sweatshirts and visors.

Camp Food

At my Job I get fed, depending on the times of day I work depends on the meal. I work at a yacht club on the Marblehead neck. It is a great location to vacation and live all year round. As my friend Danny said, dear friend, Jewish counter part I could not be getting any more Waspy then working here but the pay is good and the work is easy. So I can't leave my desk, which is the front desk, so I eat here. Yesterday I worked from 9am to 9pm so I got lunch and dinner. for lunch I took a chance at the Canteen downstairs which serves the pool people and such for a more casual dining experience I tried the turkey club, the turkey was of good quality but the bacon was limpy and undercooked. The chips were great but they sure cut corners around here with staff meals, I was lucky to get some chips, no pickles or anything. The chips are great though. They are just like I got when I went to Jewish day school for lunch. uber thick and dry and crispy not greesy like lays. for dinner I got a light grill because on mondays and tuesday dining room service is different. the light grill consists of hamburger/cheeseburger, hot dog or chicken. I got some chicken again nothing else but a piece of grilled chicken with bbq sauce on it. I was really glad I got to go home early because I was pretty hungry after that piece of chicken.
Today I overheard the chef talking about making western sandwhiches for lunch today and I knew I wouldn't like that so I got something from the canteen today. this time I spoke to the head chef dude downstairs. all the bros work in the canteen or galley kitchen. all the young hott townie boys. so they hooked me up with a grilled chicken sandwhich with cheese and bacon and mayo with some chips delish as ever and some pickles. I asked for them on the side and they said it was pushing it. I went downstairs to pick up my lunch in a box with a diet coke and to my surpise I had made a good choice today. To my suprise again I was rewarded with a second lunch from the upstairs kitchen staff. that western sandwhich I was avoiding, but I could not, not eat it, that would be rude so I took it back to the desk and indulged in lunch number two which came about an hour after lunch number one. the sandwhich was suprisinly tasty, with a grilled buttered bun and a well cooked egg. it had little pieces of ham and onions and pepers in there too it came with these weird french fries, that are almost double fried, with a strange breading, they come with EVERYTHING! last friday was camp pizza and french fries.
to my suprise AGAIN! I actually got some fresh fruit on my lunch plate today, it was fab. I am warming up to the chef in hopes for some good leftovers eventually maybe a lobster roll by the end of the summer or something. fingers crossed! but the kitchen smells like a camp kitchen and the food they give us is probably about the same standard.

Tomato Scare

I should have known this evening was off to an odd start, with the weather. It was extremely windy and dark skied with pink coming through the storm clouds. We went to Pegasus Pizza near the University of Oregon. I was really in the mood for a sandwich and to my surprise they only have two sandwiches. Meatball sub or some weird warm chicken sub with terayaki or bbq, (gross). So meatball it was. half ass put together on a lame ass hoagie roll it was a sorry excuse for what an Italian meatball sub was all about. too bad my dinner wasn't the main cause of this blog entry.it was the sliced tomatoes that other patrons brought by themselves to put atop there pizza. . the only thing I can think of that would cause these odd tourist to want to bring their own sliced tomatoes was the tomato scare with salminila (sp). oddly though they still ordered pizza with tomato sauce which to be seems to defeat the purpose of bringing your own possibly safe tomatoes knowing you will still get poisoned by another establishments bad tomatoes.

Queen of California

So I went to Costco the other day, it was a Tuesday so the samples were slim, about 3 food demos and 2 random sell this house or BMW motorcycle demos, of course the cell phone hacks and contact lens people as well. I have discovered it truly a mystical place much like in the sureallity of the movie King of California. Michael Douglas plays a deranged father who just got released from a 2 year mental institution stay for trying to kill himself. His 16 year old daughter has been taking care of herself. He has a idea to find an ancient Spanish treasure set out to believed to be underneath Costco. according to Michael Douglas the movie was shot in 31 one days.

This brings me to my new affection for both Costco, its employees, its Ravioli, and of course the check out food at the end. It is a symbol of your over indulgence in consumer culture, large quantities and what it is to be an American.

Some quotes from the trip:
"Can I just get a half a churror?
Why? they are only like a dollar" said in the tone of Neapolitan Dynamite

ME: "I am so glad we bought all that TP it will last us through next term."
Brenden: "I know where I am taking my shits from now on.."
ME: "Where?"

corned beef

I'm in love, I ate a 2 day old sandwich that my aunt packed me for the airplane on my way back to Oregon, to an amazing surprise, I was bumped to first class and didn't need to eat it, oh yeah, first class update on food coming soon! but damn....I miss the Jewish east coast food, like whoa!

Bullseys

Some say eggs in a basket, egg in a nest, egg in bread, I was brought up with bullseye.

I have been making one of these every morning for almost two weeks now. I have tried multiple variation's on them. I usually start with a butter and oil based and coat the bread and fry it and drop the egg in and add salt and pepper. cook till soupy and flip and melt a piece of kraft cheese over it. the plastic cheese is best for perfect melt-tation. serve up and enjoy with some bacon or ham and some breakfast smoothie, yum yum.

cooking a lot lately

So my and my favorite roommate have been cooking up a storm these past couple weeks, I have some documentation of these events. We are really working well as a team in the kitchen, its a combination of delegation and team work and flavored synergy.

Salad
Chicken with herbs and lemon and spices pan seared to moist perfection
T-bone in a secret marinade pan fried
Diners ready!

dinner party

To our friends, the cash money casba will be hosting an Oscar Dinner Party Extravaganza on Sunday February 24th. We shall start the evening with red carpet and appetizers by Ruthie. The theme is "I am So L.A." Come prepared to be dazzled. Brush up on your director of photograghy (DP) and those special effects gurus because we are watching every minute of this pre-telecasted TV gold.

RSVP please.

an attempt

An Attempt at making diner plans they were spoiled by my car not working. every restaurant in this goddamn town was not delivering because of the hazardous conditions, what was I suppose to do? nothing...nothing at all. snow is overrated.

Sophia's Champagne