Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'bugs'
My Worst Restaurant Experience Ever
It's not every day that you have your worst restaurant experience ever. Mine happened a few weeks ago, upon my return from Seattle and Cape Cod. Literally: it was my first meal back and the food gods rightly punished me for making a waste of it. Park Slope has two sushi joints I frequent: one is Taro which, as I've said in the past, serves the best sushi in town. The other, ____, is far inferior; the salad a soupy mess, the sushi poorly executed and rarely ever fresh. Why, on my first day back, did I go to ____ over Taro for lunch? Because, I am embarrassed to admit, I was lazy. I was nearer to ____ at lunchtime than I was to Taro; so I went to _____. And, rightly, I was punished: but did the punishment fit the crime?...
Waiter, There's a Bug in My Arugula
The other night, I made this mac and cheese out of Zingerman's Guide to Good Eating: It's a fine mac and cheese, if not the best I've ever had. I used aged American Cheddar, as the book's author recommends, but the application of onions, garlic and wine didn't really have a big payoff. The first bite was blah, though it got better as we ate it (we being Craig, myself and a visiting Diana). Knowing I was serving such a heavy, gloppy dinner I wanted to serve a little salad on the side. So I bought a carton of arugula and a lemon: I'd dress the arugula with lemon juice, olive oil and salt and pepper--that'd be it. Only, when I went to open the arugula a little something caught my eye. See if it catches your eye too......
