Dog3 wrote:

> I have already eaten lunch today. I don't have much left in the fridge so
> I decided to throw together a salad. I made a very light shallot
> viniagrette this morning and let the flavors fuse. I had small amounts of
> radicchio, leaf lettuce and a couple of leaves of romaine. I tore the
> lettuce(s) into small bite sized pieces and threw them into a wooden salad
> bowl (sides of bowl very lightly seasoned with a clove of garlic rubbed
all
> around the inside). I spied a chunk of roquefort cheese and chunked it up
> into small pieces and added to the bowl. I toasted a few walnuts, mashed
> them up and put them in the bowl. I poured the dressing on and mixed it
up.
> I added a dash of salt and pepper. It was very tasty but a few thin slices
> of steak would have been very nice.


Interesting, I just had a nice big salad for breakfast...

I am throwing together a chicken salad for later on...


> On an unrelated hunt yesterday, I lunched at this place I had never seen
> before, called Heavenly Ham. I expected something terrific but was sorely
> disappointed. I ordered ham and swiss on dark rye and ordered the box
lunch
> which I ate in the restaruant. The ham itself was nothing special and the
> box lunch consisted of a cookie and bag of pretzels. On top of it all, I
> got havarti instead of swiss. UGH... It was pricey too. Don't bother with
> this place if you come across it. I should have known better, a ham
> specialty shop in a primarily Jewish area. I did discover a Middle
Eastern
> grocery around the corner from the ham joint. It carried a lot of dried
> peas and beans, canned goods and lots of fruit, dates etc. Prices were
> outrageous. A curry packet (like the Ramen I buy all the time) was $3.
>


Middle Eastern places are usually really cheap. I can't believe that Middle
Easterners would frequent such a place...who knows, maybe there are a bunch
of Lebanese high - rollers around ;-)

Aren't there a number of Bosnian joints down there? They should carry
similar stuff, and it should be really cheap (being that the Bosnians are
fairly poor refugees).

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Best
Greg