COVID Cooking Week Fifteen

Week Fifteen

Monday 22 June - Sunday 28 June 2020

Monday

Asparagus Frittata with Smoked Gouda and Cherry Tomatoes

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Misfit Market Delivery

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Beef Burger with Mole Sauce

Grilled Potato Salad

Tuesday

Turkey Chili over Potatoes

Garden Red Leaf Lettuce Salad

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Garden Arugala Salad with Egg Salad

Wednesday

Happy Birthday, Amy!!

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Chen's Garden Chinese Takeout

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Chinese Food on Indian Wells Beach

Sweet and Sour Shrimp

Hunan Chicken

Egg Rolls

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Free Starbucks Birthday Drink

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Stuart's Seafood Market

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Clams on the Halfshell

Softshell Crabs with Capers

"Bake Me a Wish" Black Forest Cheesecake

Prosecco

Thursday

More of the Chinese Takeout

MooShu Beef

Kung Po Shrimp

Friday

Garden Arugala Salad with Egg Salad

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Planked BBQ Salmon

Caesar Salad

Clams on the Halfshell

Saturday

Leftover Chinese Food

Leftover Leftovers

Sunday

Spinach and Goat Cheese Frittata

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Steak with Chimichurri

Grilled Onions

Garlic Kale Chips

Happy Belated Birthday to Barney and Lisa

 

Noord, 1046 Tasker St, Philadelphia, PA 19148, (267) 909-9704

Lisa Leonard and I share a birth date, so every year we all get together to celebrate in one way or another.  This year, Brunch in the Passyunk Square Area of Philadelphia:  Passyunk Square is an up-and-coming neighborhood of brownstones and historic, narrow "trinity" houses. Affordable housing and diverse dining options attract hipsters and young professionals alike. East Passyunk Avenue is lined with vintage shops, gastropubs and Vietnamese pho soup spots, as well as cheesesteak rivals Pat’s King of Steaks and Geno’s Steaks. Outdoor street festivals are popular here during the warmer months. (Thanks Google for the verbiage)

The location, the unusual yet familiar items on the Brunch menu and the BYOB policy drew us to this restaurant.

As it was a celebration, we brought Prosecco.  The table was brought molasses Bread with brown sugar butter.

I ordered the Keshi Yena (Netherland Antilles Cheesy Casserole): ground chicken, gouda, sambal, raisin, olive, pepper, grilled pineapple. The casserole was tasty if not attractive under the eggs, but if you were to serve lasagna sans noodles, it would not be pretty either.

Lisa ordered a different item from the hash menu, the Seasonal Vegetable Hash: a saute of market vegetables, red potatoes, fresh herbs, lemon, two sunny side eggs.  Seasonal today meant potato and cauliflower in a tomato sauce.  I tasted it and found it uninspired.

Amy had the Gooseberry Wenteltefjes (Classic Dutch Toast) with nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, whipped cream, powdered sugar.  These were not the sweet slices of French Toast I think of, they are almost savory.

After Brunch, we walked around the neighborhood, stopping at the Primal Supply Meats Butcher Shop which was having a tasting of products from Fishtown Ferments.  

I sampled the sauerkraut and the beets. I bought the seeded sauerkraut.  It has cumin seeds in addition to the traditional caraway.                         .

We also hit Urban Jungle, a fun garden shop, currently starting to move into the spring planting season.

Birthday Dinner in NYC Chinatown: The Peking Duck House

The Peking Duck House

The Peking Duck House, 28 Mott St # A, New York, NY 10013

The restaurant I chose for my birthday. I haven't been to Chinatown in many years and felt I wanted to have a Chinese dinner that didn't come out of a paper box!

I haven't been to Chinatown in many years and felt I wanted to have a Chinese dinner that didn't come out of a paper box!

This white tablecloth restaurant in the heart of Chinatown is obviously known for their Peking duck. There's not as much meat on a duck as you might imagine. BYOB. Beer available.

Soy, Duck, and Hoisin Sauces

Shrimp Soup with crispy rice

Assorted Apps

The Actual Peking Duck... delivered sliced with pancakes and scallions

Crispy Fish Entree

Fresh Fruit for dessert

Some reviews state that the duck is butchered tableside. Certainly, ours was not, it came from the kitchen already sliced and off the bone. Maybe this is because we had the half duck and not a full duck. Through observation, I can tell you that the full duck is not butchered "at the table" it is carved at a table in the middle of the restaurant and then brought to the table.

Here is an excellent YouTube video posted by "Mike&Yayee’s Travel and Cooking" posted a week before our visit.

Happy 55th Birthday Amy!

111 Prospect Ave, West Orange, NJ 07052

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