(If you don't see the smiley face, you need to go back to kindergarten and repeat the day where they teach you how to use your imagination.)
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Happy Brunch
Earlier this week, the family went for Mother's Day Brunch at Amanda's in Hoboken. It was delightful, and clearly even my main course (crab hash with poached eggs and hollandaise) was having a fun time.
(If you don't see the smiley face, you need to go back to kindergarten and repeat the day where they teach you how to use your imagination.)
(If you don't see the smiley face, you need to go back to kindergarten and repeat the day where they teach you how to use your imagination.)
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
A Tale Of Two (Huge) Sandwiches: Part The Second
A couple of weeks after eating the White House sandwiches I mentioned in the first part of this post, I found myself in Brooklyn on a weekday afternoon in need of lunch. On days like that, sometimes I'll make a trip out to DeFonte's in Red Hook. While I was disappointed to learn that the DeFonte's hot roast beef hero is not, in fact, the sandwich featured in the "Sandwich Day" episode of 30 Rock (and, note to self, go to Fiore's next time I'm in Hoboken), it remains well worth the trip.
On a couple of previous visits, I've ordered the aforementioned hot roast beef hero (with fried eggplant, fresh mozzarella and cooking juices from the roast beef, delicious) and taken it to eat in nearby Red Hook Park. However, on this particular day the weather was unpleasant, so my plan was to get a sandwich and bus it back to my apartment before digging in. I wasn't sure a hot sandwich was the best choice given the anticipated delay of about 30 minutes, so I decided to go with a Nicky's Special.
This delicious sandwich has ham, capicola, salami, fried eggplant, provolone, hot salad (more on this in a moment), marinated mushrooms, lettuce, tomato, oil and vinegar. Because the small size sandwich (on 1/3 loaf of italian bread, $10) is too much food for one meal, but not enough for two, I decided to order the large size (on 1/2 loaf of italian bread, $12) and be sure to get two solid meals out of it. I'm afraid to say that the picture I took doesn't remotely do this sandwich justice, but take a look anyway:
If you're curious, there are better pictures on the web if you do a Google image search for "defonte's nicky special". You can't really tell from my picture, but half of the large sandwich is so much food that I wasn't hungry for dinner both days when I had the sandwich for lunch.
The hot salad is really what knocks this sandwich out of the park. Mixed spicy vegetables (probably marinated in a vinegar/peppers mix) provide some bite to cut the richness of the meat and the cheese and the fried eggplant. The only "problem", if it can be called that, is that the bread was stuffed so full of good ingredients that the hot salad tended to fall off the top, but this is still way preferable to a sandwich that's all bread. Highly recommended (as is the hot roast beef sandwich I mentioned above), and note that if you want to give it a try but don't frequent South Brooklyn, they recently opened a satellite location in Manhattan at 21st and 3rd.
On a couple of previous visits, I've ordered the aforementioned hot roast beef hero (with fried eggplant, fresh mozzarella and cooking juices from the roast beef, delicious) and taken it to eat in nearby Red Hook Park. However, on this particular day the weather was unpleasant, so my plan was to get a sandwich and bus it back to my apartment before digging in. I wasn't sure a hot sandwich was the best choice given the anticipated delay of about 30 minutes, so I decided to go with a Nicky's Special.
This delicious sandwich has ham, capicola, salami, fried eggplant, provolone, hot salad (more on this in a moment), marinated mushrooms, lettuce, tomato, oil and vinegar. Because the small size sandwich (on 1/3 loaf of italian bread, $10) is too much food for one meal, but not enough for two, I decided to order the large size (on 1/2 loaf of italian bread, $12) and be sure to get two solid meals out of it. I'm afraid to say that the picture I took doesn't remotely do this sandwich justice, but take a look anyway:
If you're curious, there are better pictures on the web if you do a Google image search for "defonte's nicky special". You can't really tell from my picture, but half of the large sandwich is so much food that I wasn't hungry for dinner both days when I had the sandwich for lunch.
The hot salad is really what knocks this sandwich out of the park. Mixed spicy vegetables (probably marinated in a vinegar/peppers mix) provide some bite to cut the richness of the meat and the cheese and the fried eggplant. The only "problem", if it can be called that, is that the bread was stuffed so full of good ingredients that the hot salad tended to fall off the top, but this is still way preferable to a sandwich that's all bread. Highly recommended (as is the hot roast beef sandwich I mentioned above), and note that if you want to give it a try but don't frequent South Brooklyn, they recently opened a satellite location in Manhattan at 21st and 3rd.
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