Apropos of nothing political, but many things culinary….
I have to say that food was one of the highlights of this weekend.
On Friday night we were with dear friends at the State Theater in New Brunswick, NJ, to see A Midsummer Night’s Deam – as a ballet (though, improbable though it might seem, there was singing as well). Wonderful production, excellent throughout. And what a pair of legs on the prima ballerina (predictable, I suppose. would you expect to see Rosie O’Donnell’s twin sister out there?)
For dinner, we went to Tumulty’s Pub – an old-timer (it originally opened in 1963, though in a different location). We all had burgers – and you can’t beat the deal. For $9.95 you get a huge, delicious burger (mine was turkey, everyone else had beef) with lettuce, tomato, and additional topping of your choice included. But that’s not all. The price also includes a quarter-wedge of lettuce with your choice of dressings as an appetizer of sorts, and an order of French fries that I could not finish. Not only that, but since happy hour goes to 7PM and we got in under the wire, the wine was less expensive too I take a sip of mine and hand it over to my wife, who happily imbibes both glasses…and is none the worse for wear (too bad, there are times I’d love to get her roaring drunk, and then we could…..uh, never mind).
Saturday night we were with the family – our sons, and beautiful daughter in law. We ate at Fascino, a sort of Italian restaurant on Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair (I say “sort of”, because the menu is only partially Italian).
The food is just terrific. If Fascino is not the single best restaurant I have been to in New Jersey, it is one of the top three. I had the peekytoe crab appetizer and the duck. Other orders included pork chops (delicious, and moist/not dry as I was told) and scallops – one more delicious than the next. We also ordered a pasta dish for the table – very simple with a sauce and mushrooms – that was, as my wife would say, to die for.
Tonight was pretty basic – a chicken from Costco (great deal: for five bucks you get a bird that outweighs you). We ate less than half of it, and I made chicken salad out of the rest, using this recipe – which includes pepper, onion, corn and not a lot of mayonnaise (we skipped the celery because my bride doesn’t like it). It tastes great. and there’s enough for a couple of days.
Ok, for whatever it is worth to you, there was the food portion of our weekend. Now back to politics, where gastronomy is usually superseded by gastritis, the pork is in legislation rather than chops, and there is no shortage of chickens…or bird-brains.
