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Long Island Wine Tastings
If you tell me a bit more about what styles of wine you tend to enjoy, I'd be more than happy to put together a list of "must stop" places for you.
You can always look at my blog as well, which focuses predominantly on LI wines: www.lenndevours.com
You might want to sneak off of Main Road and get up to Route 48 too though...some great wine up there too.
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
For many wines, particularly those that are meant to be consumed while fresh and racy, screwcaps make perfect sense.
I think that sometimes people who shun them are more worried about how it will make them look in the eyes of "wine experts" than they are the taste of the wine. They don't want to be seen buying or serving screwcap wines.
Silly really...but something that the wine industry (or at least media) has created. hopefully it will lessen as time goes on.
'Good Take-Out Vietnam'
Great comic post -- as always. And very daring eating tartare from a takeout joint!
If you guys haven't tried many Southampton brews...you should explore a bit. The IPO is good, but their Secret Ale and Saison are also pretty damn good.
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Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
I can't think of what fast food chain it is (something we don't have here locally)...but they call something a "chicken" burger that is really a fried chicken cutlet sandwich...
For it to be a burger, does the filling have to be ground or at least cut small and held together with a binder (thinking of a tofu burger here I guess)?
I say yes.
Long Island Wine Tastings
If you tell me a bit more about what styles of wine you tend to enjoy, I'd be more than happy to put together a list of "must stop" places for you.
You can always look at my blog as well, which focuses predominantly on LI wines: www.lenndevours.com
You might want to sneak off of Main Road and get up to Route 48 too though...some great wine up there too.
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
For many wines, particularly those that are meant to be consumed while fresh and racy, screwcaps make perfect sense.
I think that sometimes people who shun them are more worried about how it will make them look in the eyes of "wine experts" than they are the taste of the wine. They don't want to be seen buying or serving screwcap wines.
Silly really...but something that the wine industry (or at least media) has created. hopefully it will lessen as time goes on.
'Good Take-Out Vietnam'
Great comic post -- as always. And very daring eating tartare from a takeout joint!
If you guys haven't tried many Southampton brews...you should explore a bit. The IPO is good, but their Secret Ale and Saison are also pretty damn good.
Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
What!? This is so right/wrong -- I love it. Kudos to this sandy innovator. And you are 100% correct. A patty melt is a sandwich; a waffle sandwich is a sandwich; a burger is something else.
By the way, as much as I enjoy sandwiches, waffles are best enjoyed in taco form. Toast some eggos, add syrup and fold. They go well with other "w" foods, such as white wine.
Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
I agree on the ground meat equating a burger consensus, as well as two slices of baked goods holding together ingredients equating a sandwhich.
I vote with you Karen, 'waff-which' is fun to say! :D
Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
Actually the best thing about waffle sandwiches is the fact that they offer one the opportunity to say "Leggo my Eggo" not only at breakfast-time but at lunch-time too.
I vote we call them waff-wiches. It sounds better than sand-waffs.
Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
I worked with a fellow who brought waffle sandwiches everyday for lunch. Never bread. He toasted up two Eggo buttermilk waffles, and mad a sandwich with them... PB&J, bologna, ham and cheese, tuna salad...didn't matter - just on waffles. He even used the typical condiments - mayo, mustard depending on the fill.
Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
Actualy near me in Rockville MD there is a guy crazy for waffles: www.mosaiccuisine.com and I think you could get something close...
Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
I just wanted to add that waffles make great open face sandwich bases, the gravy and mashed potatoes fill in the waffle crevices in a lovely manner.
And I wanted to point out this lovely pancake +pesto + spam sandwich I made one day with leftover pancakes.
Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
last season of top chef, the episode when they were cooking for athletes. someone made a waffle sandwich, didn't they? it was like waffle, eggs, beans, and ham? i can't remember, but i remember it was one of the top recipes that episode.
Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
Oh yes, the waffle sandwich can be a sandwich.
As they are, here:
The ones he made for her were spun through delicately with brilliant happy sparks like shooting stars, circling through the night air around her. Thick heart-shaped bittersweet double-chocolate waffles topped with crunchy caramelized bananas. . . orange-almond-cumin waffles ladled with rich heady creamy curried quail. . . oh! She loved his lemon thyme waffles so luxurious, fresh lobster claws holding hands on top, dotted with emerald and ruby-like aromatics in sparkling pink vodka sauce. . . or the seven-grain waffle sandwich stuffed with Greek salad drizzled with biting tahini sauce. There! A dreamy rosewater–peach waffle went dancing right past her, twirling in the air with divine insouciance, two round smiling matched curves of strawberry sorbet and lemon gelato glistening on top, shimmering by in the night. So much waffle-y bliss! Mrs. Waffle slid further into dreamland with a sigh, dove deeply into dreamland, smiling in her sleep, and as she moved just a hint of a touch closer to Mr. W, she felt a spark. Just like water hitting the hot metal of waffle iron. She edged closer, ready.
Open-faced or not. Sandwiches. Waffles. Absolutely. :)
Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
Foodette- What about the "open faced sandwich"? You can't pick that up with your hands...
Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
My favorite breadstuff to have a burger on is an everything bagel...
I think that if you consider a piece of meat/cheese between two slices of croissant a sandwich, then you can consider the same between two waffles a sandwich. Both are breakfast pastry-like, right?
Also, I am trying a pb&j on waffles ASAP.
Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
I think, in order to call it a hamburger, the meat must be ground/cut into small pieces. That is because the term hamburger comes from this style of meat developed in Hamburg, Germany. For a long time, it was called the Hamburg Steak. The bread choice should be irrelevant, other than to allow people to know what they are ordering (I expect a hamburger to be served on a bun, and a patty melt to be served on rye with grilled onions).
I think a sandwich is anything where filling is easily eaten with ones' hands, due to the fact that it's between two pieces of bread. I don't think it matters if its a waffle sandwich or not, though I'd be disappointed if I ordered a sandwich at a restaurant, and it came in waffles, if I wasn't expecting it to do so. However, I often make a simple meal of peanut butter and jelly between waffles, when I am feeling too lazy to cook.
Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
potato pancakes? waaaay too greasy to pick up with hands.
now talking waffles.. let's put a scoop of ice cream between two hot ones and go to town on that. excellent treat from the jersey shore..
Serious Sandwiches: The Waffle Sandwich
If you are in Brooklyn (or mid town Manhattan, for that matter) and you go to Junior's, they have an item on their sandwich menu that consists of sliced brisket between two potato pancakes (the name escapes me right now). I figure if you can count an "open faced" sandwich as a sandwich, that counts and so does the waffle sandwich. With all due respect to John Montagu, of course.
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
It's understandable that winemakers are nervous about whether screwcaps might affect the development of wines that are meant to spend a long time bottle-aging: you honestly don't know until you try it. I'd be interested to know if any major makers are laying down vintages with caps and corks then testing them, or whether they're not prepared to risk losing even a small amount of their annual production.
There are also synthetic corks, which deliver the satisfying 'pop': I believe Bonny Doon has experimented with them, and I've seen plasticorks used elsewhere, more commonly in the UK. But if you're going to take the plastic route, then you might as well go the whole way and adopt the screwcap.
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
Doug, do you mean that screwcaps were the RULE and not the exception? I'm a little confused. Interesting explanation(s), if that's what you mean. :-)
I work at a wine store in Madison, WI, and have found that it's not terribly hard to convince people to give screw caps a try. New Zealand SB's can be absolutely wonderful (see: Cloudy Bay or Kim Crawford). That said, I agree that it's a difficult balance between the Ritual of the Cork and the fear of corkage. Having had corked wine while camping (the horror! no place to buy more!), I'll be taking mostly screw capped whites on trips this summer.
One question -- if you're letting a screw-capped Australian shiraz sit a bit longer, is the cork still better?
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
On a recent trip to New Zealand we visited many of the wineries in the Marlborough region. Screw caps seemed to be the exception, not the rule, and when we asked someone why they cited three reasons:
1. The expense of importing cork to one of the far corners of the globe.
2. The relative young age of most NZ wineries compared with their European counterparts.
3. The great distance many NZ wines travel when imported to the US and elsewhere. Screwcaps prevent wine from going bad better than cork.
I'm not sure if all of these reasons hold water, but who was I to argue?
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
Boxes, baby!
Boxes!
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
What could be bad about anything that enhances the experience of wine drinking? The cork offers a pleasant ritual, but it's hardly a reason to select a particular wine. I welcome screw caps, rubber corks, even boxes, so long as I can enjoy a decent variety of wines at affordable prices.
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
one of my favorite wines (stormhoek) has a screwcap, as long as the wine is great tasting does it matter?
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
The real question is whether the world is ready to move beyond even screwtop (not quite having gotten there) for fine wine in bag-in-box form, since it has the best keeping qualities after being opened and all the other advantages of the screwtop. It's also square and uses cellar and refrigerator space more efficiently!
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
I love the convenience of a screwcap, especially when going to a party where you're not familiar enough with the host to be sure they'll have a corkscrew (the horror!), or if you're going to be in a situatuation where you need to be able to tote the bottle around after opening without fear of leaking, cork breakage, etc.. like camping (though boxes and tetra paks are even better).
Then again, I'm anti most wine stigmas based on silly notions of class differentiation, and I looooooove New Zealand Sauv. Blancs. ;}
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
I still prefer just cracking the wine bottle's stem on the table's edge - Yaaarrrgh!
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
I do love the romance of a cork. There is something special about popping out that cork. Although if the cork crumbles and gets in your wine, it wrecks the moment completely. I like the ease of the screw top. Plus, I have had several corked bottles of wine and would hands down prefer for the wine to have the best flavor possible. In the end, I think both methods will continue to be used for several years.
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
Couldn't tell you how many times I've had an old cork just crumble when pulling it out.
I'm all for twist off if it's on good wine. I even like the new rubber corks.
Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
It's so true that the problem has more to do with "what will people think" than with flavor or quality. Truth is, in a blind tasting last July, a panel at the Society of Wine Educators' Conference found a "slight" preference for screwcapped wine over the very same wine with a cork. Even more interesting, the panel preferred a bag-in-box wine by a 2 to 1 margin over the same wine in a bottle with a cork!
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I can't think of what fast food chain it is (something we don't have here locally)...but they call something a "chicken" burger that is really a fried chicken cutlet sandwich...
For it to be a burger, does the filling have to be ground or at least cut small and held together with a binder (thinking of a tofu burger here I guess)?
I say yes.