What are you eating… right now?

Botch · March 22

GrateEggspectations said:

A few days back now, but Francesinha - toasted bread layered with steak, wet-cured ham, linguiça, and fresh sausage. Covered in melted cheese and a hot, thick beer-and-tomato sauce, topped with a fried egg and served with fries. Local delicacy in Porto, Portugal.

So much to take in here...

dbCooper · March 22

GrateEggspectations said:

A few days back now, but Francesinha - toasted bread layered with steak, wet-cured ham, linguiça, and fresh sausage. Covered in melted cheese and a hot, thick beer-and-tomato sauce, topped with a fried egg and served with fries. Local delicacy in Porto, Portugal.

Fabulous, just fabulous.

Buckwoody Egger · March 22

awesome Grate!!! did you cook that or buy that?

GrateEggspectations · March 22

Buckwoody Egger said:

awesome Grate!!! did you cook that or buy that?

Restaurant outing in Porto, Portugal last week. Beautiful city.

Canugghead · March 22

@GrateEggspectations Just beautiful, Portugese steak and poutine!

lousubcap · March 23

@GrateEggspectations - you do get around! What a culinary delight right there.

GrateEggspectations · March 23

@lousubcap

Gotta say that the kids were absolute champs on the trip. They ate up pork cheeks (several times over), octopus, fish cakes, etc. They ate it all without complaint.

Perhaps none more so than pastel de Belém! These are the O.G. pasteis de nata.

DoubleEgger · March 24

Keeping it healthy with trout at Kid Cashew in Sandy Springs GA

Buckwoody Egger · March 24

dang! looks delicious

GrateEggspectations · March 24

A pizza we had last week in Lagos, Portugal. The pizza place had a wild array of options. We opted for the Camponese, but I can’t say I wasn’t tempted by the Bora Bora (which featured banana and peach, among other items). Our chosen pie, which was huge, had corn and cream on it, in addition to ingredients we see more commonly at home. Paired really well with dirt cheap cava!

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Canugghead · March 25

@GrateEggspectations Nice pie, hope you tipped her well

Canugghead · March 25

Leftover pulled pork

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CPFC1905 · March 25

Pink grapefruit, kiwi, granola and Greek yoghurt.

And a mug of tea, obvs.

JohnInCarolina · March 25

CPFC1905 said:

Greek yoghurt.

Nod.

Canugghead · March 25

No doughnut?

Botch · March 27

Lookee what my local supermarket is now carrying, way out here in Utah!

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I did finally find a decent copycat recipe that I've been making, but its great to have a couple cans of it for those days I don't feel like cooking (I always have spaghetti and cheese on hand). Greatest junk food ever.

Botch · March 29

There was a great Korean restaurant just south of the base that I hit weekly while I was still working, and I've started going there on Saturdays again (it isn't so crowded). It has changed hands, but they're still authentic although they've dropped a couple of my favorite dishes. Today I tried Jap-chae (this is a random internet photo):

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The base is a type of glass noodle that's not made from rice, but from sweet potato (first time I've tried them; noodles made from sweet potato just didn't sound appealing to me). The dish was actually delicious, but...

...impossible to eat! I have no problem pulling out rice noodles from phó broth with chopsticks, but these damn things were too slippery. I finally used a fork with an Italian "pasta twirl", but couldn't get a small, separate biteful, and then I couldn't bite them off cleanly, they seemed to slip in between my teeth, dayam.
I finally started pulling a bite-size portion off to one edge of the plate, cutting thru the noodles like you do for kids with spaghetti and a spoon, and halfway-finished the dish.
These were delicious, but unless there's some trick I don't know about, won't be ordering it again nor working with sweet potato glass noodles...

EDIT: Just checked a few EweTube shorts on "how to eat japchae", no specific eating techniques, but a few of the cooks cut the noodles after cooking with scissors, and one guy would grab a chopstick-full and raise it almost over his head, and then use a ramen-style slurp to get everything in his mouth (his buddy tried using a fork and had the same issues I did).
Still think these noodles are not for me.

JohnInCarolina · April 1

JohnInCarolina · April 1

Lewis bbq, Charleston SC.

GrateEggspectations · April 1

Looks great, @JohnInCarolina.

I am envious.

JohnInCarolina · April 1

For those curious about the going rate for Q these days, you can probably see it on the wall here if you Zoom in:

DoubleEgger · April 1

How would you rate it @JohnInCarolina?

JohnInCarolina · April 1

DoubleEgger said:

How would you rate it @JohnInCarolina?

Best I’ve had on the East coast.

dbCooper · April 1

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mmm, mmm good

WeberWho · April 4

@StillH2OEgger Have you been?

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/stillwater-chef-gets-high-honors-at-international-pizza-competition

StillH2OEgger · April 4

WeberWho said:

@StillH2OEgger Have you been?

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/stillwater-chef-gets-high-honors-at-international-pizza-competition

Have heard good things, especially about their wings, but have not been there yet. It's on our list for this summer.

It has been here for a couple of years, but we have a place just south of Melt that we love downtown called Quickfire, which is more of a fast-casual wood-fired place. We have liked everything we have tried at Quickfire, but I always come back to this one (Ordinary Average Guy). If Melt can sniff this I'll have a real dilemma. Will keep you posted when I do.

Ordinary Average Guy

Cajun sauce, cheese blend, pepperoni, Italian sausage, prosciutto ham, smoked bacon, jalapeño peppers, red onions & shredded mozzarella 17.68

MasterC · April 5

It's an Indiana thing

The fried pork tenderloin

alaskanassasin · April 6

Do you have a favorite spot in Indianapolis for one of those bad boys @MasterC? We’ve been hearing about that fried pork chop but haven’t had one yet.

MasterC · April 6

I'm not that familiar with Indy but the town tavern in Auburn is one of my favorites.

GrateEggspectations · April 19

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