"Gregory Morrow"
<gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote in
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>
> 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).
>

There are a lot of Bosnian establishment in South City but I have not been
that way in a long time. I'll check it out. The ME store was in an
upscale area and I'm sure the rent is astronomical. I was the only person
in the store at the time.

Michael