the stuffing before it's been stuffed. all deelish salty savory warm mashy bread with meaty turkey broth, onions, celery, butter and seasoning. ahhggggg. i still get punished for raiding and i'm in my 30's - mom is wicked quick with that wooden spoon.
i was so excited! just having moved to new york, and with not access to much cash, my boyfriend and i decided to treat ourselves to a nice breakfast out. we traveled to soho to a restaurant that our friends had raved about. oh YUM! poached eggs and potato latke! with a bloody mary in hand i decided that was the route i was going to go. oh, how i love little poached eggs! here it comes! oh wait. what is this? something that wasn't noted on the menu... i think it's spiced apples? spiced apples with so much juice that the plate was flooded with apple cinnamon spice that was so cloying it was like a yankee holiday candle. and when i say flooded.. i mean flooded. the juice looked like it had been ladled on the eggs. on the potatoes. on the beautiful little biscuits that were also on the plate. i asked for an extra plate and a stack of napkins and moved the crap apples away and attempted to mop up the horrible liquid. didn't work. the flavor had permeated everything. so my glorious first new york breakfast, happy sitting at a table next to gael garcia bernal, turned into cinnamon apple arse.
how fantastic is this! i was in munich a couple of years ago and had a very thin airy crust pizza that was topped with thin slices of veal with tuna sauce on top. i was deathly afraid of this combo until i tasted... and then proceeded to eat myself ill on it. sooo deelish! now i can finally try to recreate. thanks so much!
Terrace Bagel in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. Their Everything bagel is a glorious mix of all the goodies, including kosher salt, and is heaven with a hole in it. I have yet to be disappointed. La Bagel Delite in Park Slope is a nice 2nd.
i could give or take the lettuce - if i leave it off it's kind of a daring "oo - i'm not eating a vegetable" moment. peppered bacon on toasted rye is deelish as well... as is my childhood favourite, and 4-times a year treat, of peanut butter and bacon on toast... sigh.
This really happened when I was in Georgia for my father's second funeral.
A sandwich supper that consisted of cold Velveeta and Treet sandwiches on Wonder bread dressed with MIracle Whip mixed with ketchup and pickle relish. Served with Mountain Dew, choice of regular or diet.
Do you hear the banjos?
Tina
Thanks for the tip, Decca. I've never heard of the Bagel Store. I will check them out next time I'm in Williamsburg.
If you're ever in Williamsburgh, my vote - hands down - is:
Bagel Store
(718) 218-7244
247 Bedford Ave
Bagel Store
(718) 782-5856
754 Metropolitan Ave
They have a nice crust on the bottom and they are chewy. To me, they are the real deal.
I didn't even know about La Bagel. I will check it out. Sounds promising. I agree with you about Ess A Bagel. Its bagels are too big and too sweet.
I don't know why Essa Bagel gets such good marks. I think their bagels are too large and too soft and have little flavor. But about a block away is La Bagel. The best I've had. Of course, I haven't sampled every bagel in the New York tri-state area, but La Bagel is my idea of what a begel should be. It's at 263 1st Ave.
Bagel Hole in on 7th Ave. in Park Slope makes a nice version of the old-fashioned chewy dense bagel that must be eaten that day. Terrace Bagel in Windsor Terrace makes very good slightly larger slightly softer bagels and good bialies. I had some good bagels from a place on Coney Island Ave. in Midwood, as well. Kosar's seems to have changed recipes withing the past year or two. Their classic bialies are no more, in my humble opinion, although the onion board (pletzl) is still tops.
H&H always was second rate. The place near Columbia is great (Absolute). Columbia Hot Bagel used to be great too.
Anyone remember the great New Jersey bagel places of yesteryear? I remember one on Chancellor Ave. in Irvington, and another on West End Ave. in Jersey City. Both were great places, basically wholesalers with small service counters. My dad would take us late Saturday night to get the early edition of the Sunday paper and hot bagels. Wiggler's in Union, NJ was great also.
I'd love to hear about other great bagels which are no more...
I love the bagels at David's Bagels on 1st avenue near 19th street. I like them better than Essa, which is down the street.
While I love mashed potatoes, in my family it's heresy to serve it with poultry. Rice and gravy, baby!
But the *dressing* (cornbread) is probably my favorite...
Oh, and the mashed sweet potatoes get dosed with a brown sugar/butter/bourbon mixture before the mini-marshmallows go on top.
No question about it, the stuffing. Has to be homemade, with lots of onions. And slathered with homemade gravy (my mom's recipe).
Next, mashed potatoes, similarly slathered.
The turkey is only important for 2 reasons: (1) without the turkey, there wouldn't be pan drippings to serve as the base for the gravy. and (2) you need the turkey for the sandwiches for the the rest of the Thanksgiving weekend.
Pies are good, especially apple with real vanilla ice cream. But so are brownie sundaes - got to get some chocolate in there somewhere...
Happy eating, everyone!
Chris
used to be mashed potatoes, but now it's stuffing.
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