Elitism Update
Just got back from the store, and I picked up a Nedi-pot. I have to say, it cleared things up quite nicely, even though it was disgusting and it is hard to pipe warm liquids in one nostril and out the other while aiming for the sink with a cat weaving in between your legs.
Picked up some odd things at the grocery- I was in the mood to experiment. I got some new type of greens that I had never seen called Mache Rosettes, I got a couple curious looking little fruits called blood oranges, something I also had never seen, and I picked up a container of black currant juice instead of the usual jug of POM. I was going to also try this odd looking thing called a dragonfruit, but the damned little thing rang up to ten bucks and I said to hell with that.
Also got a replacement coffee mug. I broke my favorite mug on Tuesday, and I am really particular about the size and shape of my mug- it has to contain a solid bit of coffee and feel right. I hate all the little coffee cups I have but never use, and for the last week I have been drinking coffee out of a… measuring cup. What the hell, I am single.
Not sure what to do with the Mache Rosettes. The packaging claims it has a nutty taste, so I am thinking I might serve it some sprouts, a little bit of crab meat, and some of the blood oranges and feta. Not sure how that will work and I can not decide on a dressing. Your thoughts?
*** Update ***
Actually, I am from WV, damnit. I will have two pepperoni rolls with yellow mustard washed down with a bottle of Strawberry Hill Boones Farm, and for dessert I will have a half-dozen twinkies. If I am feeling really frisky, later on I will have a shot of white lightning, brewed locally and filtered through one of the finest radiators in Randolph County.
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Comrade Darkness
I have no thoughts on the menu, besides perhaps the dressing should just be vinegar and oil (with sea salt and fresh cracked black pepper, if you are really going elitist) given the diversity of ingredients. But I’ll mention that we use our neti pot in the shower most the time. No mess and makes it easy to remember to use it regularly.
ajollypyruvate
Blood oranges are tasty! One of our fruit trees is a blood-orange tree and has many little fruits budding at this very moment. MMMMmmmm!
Ted
Excellent fruit. Just a lot darker and tastier than regular oranges.
Jules
Cheese and seafood? No, it doesn’t sound like a good combination. Mix the crabmeat with some mayo, a small amount of mustard, and some chopped veggies. Put it over the greens you bought and toss some chopped scallion or onion over the top. Maybe a light splash of olive oil too.
Joshua
I, too, drink from a measuring device. ;) Although if it ever breaks (again), I’m totally replacing it with the vi reference mug.
SamFromUtah
That is in fact the most elitist shopping list I’ve ever read.
I’ve read that some of the DFH co-ops are now offering Elitism Offsets, where you pay a few bucks extra to buy a jar of Cheez Whiz for underprivileged wingnuts.
Deborah
You’re on the right track with a simple salad and Comrade’s suggestion of a simple vinaigrette. (I like making his recipe with lemon juice instead of vinegar.) Mache is a lovely lettuce; blood oranges you want to show off the color.
I have not tried neti pots but people with bad allergies swear by them—2 minutes of ickiness for a full day of clear headedness.
Saucy Sauce
Blood oranges are delicious. They are a bit sweeter and have more orange flavor than typical supermarket oranges. Dragonfruits are worth a try, too—I love them but my girlfriend can’t stand them—though not at $10 per. Are you shopping in a Vietnamese grocery store, by chance?
shera
What fresh hell is this? I’m beginning to think that John doesn not in fact live in West Virginia. After all, the foods he describes can only be found in a Whole Foods (or Fairway) in NEW YORK CITY or WASHINGTON, D.C!
cleek
"nedi" pot?
i believe it’s "neti pot"
my wife has one. i can’t even watch her use it… squicks me right out
Doctor Science
One of the most useful books I own is Uncommon Fruits & Vegetables by Elizabeth Schneider. For what you’ve got, I definitely agree about a simple oil/vinegar dressing—you’ve got enough flavors going on as it is.
Polish the Guillotines
One of the best appetizers I ever had—and this is so simple—was blood orange sections with either fresh mozzarella or ricotta, and a drizzle of good balsamic vinegar.
I swear on a stack of French Korans, it’s un-Americanly delicious.
zzyzx
You’ve been a Democrat for how long now?
Tzal
I agree with some of the other commenters. Drop the cheese. But if you refuse to drop it, go with something milder than feta. Otherwise, sounds good. . .
Trax
Definitely stand in the shower to use your neti pot. Make sure you lean over at the waist, look at the floor and keep your mouth open…if you close it, you run the risk of the water (and sinus goo) sliding down the back of your throat.
Welcome to the club!
harlana pepper
socialistic food! where are your corn dogs, traitor!
Captain USA
Precision and consistency in measuring the water and salt for neti solution is key.
Too much or too little and it’s like sinuses full of swimming pool water.
Captain USA
Trader Joe’s has an Italian blood orange juice that is indescribably delicious.
Colonel Danite
Best use for blood oranges – screwdrivers! Fresh squeezed blood orange juice and a good vodka. I like Grey Goose. It has a clean taste and is French which pisses off the Bill O’Reilley’s and Sarah Palin wing of the Republican party.
Keith
I started using neti pots about 2 years ago and swear by them. When I was really congested, it provided immediate relieve that lasted a good hour. And the nice thing is, unlike cold meds, you can pour saline solution down your nose every hour all day long, and it won’t make your heart explode or liver swell.
I’m just coming down with a cold right now, and a cup of water through each nostril before I went to bed did wonders for my sinuses.
zic
Bitter greens beg for a dressing with a bit of boiled egg in them, mashed with a bit of garlic to help smooth the emulsion process. Smoothes the edges. I had a wonderous salad at Fore St. in Portland, ME of bitter mustard greens (included roast beets and carots, herbed goat cheese) with such a dressing.
And thank that bit of advice on the late should go to the late Richard Olney, author of "Simple French Food," (currently open on the kitchen table,) mentor to Alice Waters, among others, including me. If there’s one book on food, besides waters new "The Art of Simple Food," to read and read often, it’s Olney’s beautiful little book.
John Cole
The only cheese I currently have in the house is a wedge of parmesan for grating, the feta, a wedge of asiago, and some Roquefort.
You all think a simple balsamic dressing would work? I have a container of key lime juice and various assorted vinegars that I could also do something with if you all can think of something.
Comrade Darkness
Oh, dear. I didn’t see the crab meat. Or I blocked on the crab meat, more likely.
The salad with the feta and blood oranges and the greens sounds great. Sans crab meat.
Depending on how much meat you have there, I’d fry up a little crushed garlic in butter, drizzle in lime juice and a little honey, turn down the heat and let that all merge together and pour it over the cold crab meat with a dash of paprika and serve that as a separate dish. As a separate course, even.
Outside of a mezes recipe I can’t see feta and crab together. And even then, that’d be bar food. Aegean bar food. But still bar food.
Nylund
Neti Pots are awesome. You’ll get hooked and find yourself DYING to get home so you can poor water up your own nose with a kettle. Its absurd, but true.
And, besides a tuna melt, I don’t think cheese and seafood should ever be mixed.
Most importantly, it looks like we can cross "West Virginia" off the "real America" list. They don’t sell dragonfruit in real America. Even the dragonfruit flavor of Vitamin Water is pushing it. But the actual fruit? That’s some Bill Ayers shit right there.
Geoff
Another great thing to do with blood oranges (one of my favorite fruits) is peel and slice (maybe 1/2 – 1/4 inch thick) about 6 of them. Sprinkle with a tablespoon of sugar and a some lemon zest. Keep in the fridge for about an hour. Terrific side dish. (Recipe from one of Lee Bailey’s wonderful books.)
Polish the Guillotines
Simple balsamic vinagrette = win. Skip the key lime and use a little blood orange juice.
Comrade Darkness
Go crazy on the cracked black pepper and it think it will. The pepper will really bring something wonderful out of both the oranges and the feta. (Since you are new to this, I’ll mention that if you loosen the screw that holds your pepper grinder together, you’ll get larger chunks of ground pepper, and you want that here. Experiment a bit over a white plate so you can see what you’re getting out of your grinder. You do have a grinder, right? Otherwise we’re coming to confiscate the Elitist Driver’s Permit within the hour.)
Professor Kum'n'go
You made the right choice with the dragonfruit. Oh sure, they look all tropical and interesting on the outside, and when you cut them open, you see an intense, beautiful red. But then you actually taste it – only to discover there’s nearly no taste at all. They’re not sweet, nor sour nor pungent; the flavor actually pretty close to that of a potato. I travel quite a bit in southeast asia, and every once in a while, I convince myself to try one again, and the result is always disappointment.
If you’re going to go for true elitist fruit, mangosteens and passionfruit are the way to go.
John Cole
Look, there is a reason a lot of people live in West Virginia, and a reason why every time people attack the state, we… let you. We encourage you. Yes- WV sucks. It is nothing but toothless hillbillies. In fact, you know toothpaste was invented in WV, because otherwise it would be called teeth paste. WV sucks. You don’t want to live here. You would hate it.
In all seriousness, Morgantown is a pretty good place to be. Low cost of living, low crime rate (the last time I locked a car door was when I lived in NY), nice people most of the place. Sure, there are some areas that are not so nice and there is endemic poverty and a close-mindedness, but most of the time and in most places, people are pretty content to let everyone be and do their own thing.
And it has been my personal experience that if you need help from your neighbors, there is no better place in the world to be than WV. That was something I tried to explain over and over again in the primaries- yes, there is some racism, but the main reason people would not vote for Obama here is simply because he is unfamiliar. People didn’t just embrace Hillary because she was white, they embraced her because her last name was Clinton and they had known her for twenty years. She is safe. She is comfortable.
The same thing was at play in 2000- you know who played a big role in Bush’s win here (other than the NRA mailings)? Barbara Bush, his mother. People here looked at George Bush, said to themselves we don’t really like everything his dad did, but he is from a good family, we know them and we can trust them.
The small town dynamic is huge. When I was growing up in Bethany, all our doctors in Wheeling (eye, dentist, etc.) had the last name Joseph. It just is how it is here.
Comrade J. Michael Neal
I don’t have the dexterity necessary to use a neti-pot. I do have chronic sinusitis. I think it won’t be long before I need to go in for surgery again to clean them out.
I just use a syringe to squirt the salt water up my nose. I can do it standing up straight, and over the sink.
John Cole
Funny you should say that, because I just replaced mine today. I broke that yesterday.
Think I am going to go with the feta and the oranges with a balsamic, and just make a crab cake with the crab meat. I might try to do something with the lime juice to make a drizzle for the crab cake.
Perry Como
Depending on what else you have around the house you could make a blood orange ceviche and serve it on the mache. Crab meat, red onion or shallots, red/green/yellow/orange bell pepper, garlic, lime juice, blood orange juice, chopped blood orange, habenero, cilantro, salt, pepper. Let it sit for a couple hours for the flavors to meld. But that’s not a really good rainy day dish.
Another possibility is crab cakes. Crab meat, egg, dijon, mayo, salt, pepper, capers, lemon juice, breadcrumbs. Pan fry them and serve with the mache tossed a blood orange vinaigrette. Olive oil, sherry vinegar, dijon, blood orange juice, salt, pepper.
If you don’t feel like doing crab cakes, you can make crabmeat maison. White wine vinegar, mayo, dijon mustard, salt, pepper, capers, onion, lemon juice. Fold crabmeat into that and serve on the lettuce.
Then use blood orange juice, single barrel bourbon, peychaud’s bitters, angostura bitters and simple syrup to make a nice cocktail.
Comrade Darkness
It’d be too redundant with your salad, but one of my favorite desserts is a reduction of red wine over fresh halved strawberries, covered in a copious dose of black pepper. Your better sense screams that it should taste awful, but it tastes wonderful.
MBL
Kum’n’Go is right on the dragonfruit. My wife bought one a few weeks ago on a lark, pretty much the exact same way you almost did. They’re pretty as hell, they look like a kiwi on the inside, and they taste like absolutely nothing. We cut one in half and neither of us could finish it.
gbear
Wasn’t dragonfruit one of the things that Palin wants to kill earmarks for? Imagine how much they’ll cost if she gets her way.
Jennifer
Never heard of the neti pot before. I’m fortunate though – thanks to the architecture of my sinuses and learning some bio-feedback techniques, I can actually consciously get them to drain when needed. Had to learn to do it, because the decongestants always caused my heart to flop around. I can’t say I find the idea of putting salt water up my nose very appealing, so I guess it’s a good thing I don’t have to.
Notorious P.A.T.
Speaking of elitism: call Michelle Malking! My landlord came in to my apartment and gave me. . . new countertops!
plucky little female liberalse
This is all too weird. You’re single?
shera
I’ve spent much of my adult life alternating between cities and small towns, and have found a pretty good balance here in Sacramento. Not so big that there’s no quiet, but not too small that I can’t make a food run at 3 a.m. But…this thread is making me even more hungry, especially from the paring of the blood oranges with feta and balsamic, so it’s off to the store.
SnarkyShark
You must not eat a lot of seafood. Ever hear of crab au gratin?
Cheese and the right kind of seafood is delicious, especially if you mix in some fresh spinach.
OT, but I think Holy Joe just bought a clue.
via Josh at TPM
Too late dickhead, your done. And if Harry Reid doesn’t shun your ass, he’s done too. Belay that, he’s already done.
zic
Use the balsamic, & the blood orange (the idea of slicing, and macerating in sugar is terrific,) but do try the boiled egg. . .& the crab. You’ll be eating as if you had arugula at every meal. . .
hannahsmom
Nutty-tasting greens are great with feta, some red onion and a viniagrette with a touch of Grey Poupon.
Anyhoo, thanks to Andrew Sullivan for getting me to your blog! Intelligent life still exists in the universe…
Obama ‘08
Bill
"pipe warm liquids in one nostril and out the other while aiming for the sink with a cat weaving in between your legs."
I thought that was hot but then I read this:
"Make sure you lean over at the waist, look at the floor and keep your mouth open…"
Damn you liberals are sexy.
Kathy
Blood Orange Vinaigrette
1 blood orange
minced garlic
1 tablespoon vinegar (rice wine,if you have it)
Salt and pepper
1/4 cup olive oil
1tablespoon honey
Juice the blood orange and whisk everything together.
demkat620
Crab meat + red sauce + linguine = delicious!
Would also allow you to work in the parmesan.
kommrade jakevich
Blood oranges? I bet it’s the blood of virginal McPOW campaign workers, you socialist beast!
evabaruk
I would just use the Mache with other salad greens with a vinaigrette. As for the blood oranges they work well with salmon. Layer a baking dish with slices of blood oranges and a sweet white onion. Place fish skin side down on oranges, pour enough Merlot to cover oranges. Bake at 350 for ‘bout 3/4 of an hour or until fish is done. oh yeah use a little salt and pepper on the fish as well as the layers of oranges and onion.
Zuzu's Petals
@ajollypyruvate:
I don’t know which state you live in, but for me, well, it’s one of the treats of living in California. Dee-lish, huh?
I realize how spoiled I am when I hear about folks just discovering produce that’s so abundant here. I have a friend who freaked out when she moved here from Pennsylvania and saw her first artichoke – thought it was some kind of pine cone.
telesilla
Not only is there the crab au gratin SnarkyShark mentioned, but you really haven’t lived until you’ve had scallops in a gorgonzola cream sauce over a bed of handmade pasta.
And one more vote for the fabulousness of blood oranges, both as fruit and in Italian soda format. God, I love Trader Joe’s.
wmd
I’d suggest tasting the Mache Rosettes before dressing your salad.
John Cole
@demkat620: I have some Ronzoni whole wheat pasta. That may be an idea. Plus I have some good fresh basil that I wrapped up the other day.
Joe Max
OMG, I thought I was the weird one. My wife doesn’t understand me (*sob*), but I’m the same way – I have to drink coffee out of the "right" kind of mug. The one I use is one from my union, it’s ceramic, cylindrical, a little larger than a standard coffee cup, a little deeper, has a handle that can fit all of my fingers, and the thickness of the walls is just right for sipping. We own a nice set of matched coffee cups that I just can’t stand (a gift from my mother-in-law, but that has nothing to do with it, really. I actually like my mother-in-law a lot.) "But honey, the coffee’s the same no matter what cup it’s in." No, it isn’t, dammit!
Zuzu's Petals
John, I have a super-simple and yummy recipe for a blood-orange and fennel salad, if you’re interested:
Epicurious
I don’t use mint when I make it, but it sounds interesting. Sometimes I just arrange the thinly sliced (and peeled) oranges on a platter and sprinkle the fennel, onions, and olives over them, then drizzle the oil over that.
Of course you can use naval oranges as well, but the blood oranges are a taste treat.
demkat620
Glad to help. The hubby is sicilian. In his mind there is no food on the planet that can’t be improved with olive oil and garlic.
Lots of times, I have to agree.
Hillary Rettig / www.lifelongactivist.com
the great neti pot conspiracy scores another convert!
if you manage to use the neti pot on the (not fat) cat, then we’ll all be impressed.
Hillary
Zuzu's Petals
@Polish the Guillotines:
Ooh, that does sound good. Similar to my salad, but…not.
BethanyAnne
Sam, you got at least one giggle from the Cheese Whiz comment. :-) To balance all the proper good-foodness in this thread, I present: Baconnaise. You’re welcome.
Bob In Pacifica
Coffee cups are important. I’ve got a nice big lucky Niner coffee mug which has only been lucky about 30% of the time over the last four years.
Blood oranges have been around the SF Bay Area for years. I’ve always been a little creeped out by the name, goes back to a bad acid trip back in the sixties. They should call them ruby oranges, or blush oranges or something else.
Tsulagi
Next time if you want to try something different, might even be exotic in WV, try maduro. That’s cooked plaintains. Usually find them near the bananas in the produce area. About as common as potatoes or french fries in Central and South America. Cuba too. No doubt Che ate a lot of them so you could show your solidarity in your inexorable march toward commie socialism in your new party.
You can bake them or fry them. I prefer mine sliced and sauteed in a little olive oil and butter. If you cook them at the proper ripeness, they’ll have a slightly banana flavored mild sweet potato taste. Good stuff.
calipygian
I am beyond your primitive neti pot. I just give a mighty squirt from a bottle with a nozzle on it and hope that the blast doesn’t drive infected sinus snot into my brain stem.
Screamin' Demon
I thought all you West Virginia hillbillies went in for Moon Pies and RC Cola. That would explain the epidemic of toothlessness.
Unless Wikipedia’s lying to me…
Jules
@SnarkyShark and telesilla
Well, I do eat seafood often, but not with cheese. I’m sure the combinations you mention are very good, and I might try them out.
The only thing I can really state in my defense is: Did you know John McCain was a POW?
Jennifer
HA! I think the pepperoni rolls would go quite nicely with the black currant juice. And dammit all, since leaving WV for VA and NC, I have yet to source a decent pepperoni roll myself. Gino’s is one item in the ‘pro’ column as we discuss the possible (probable) move back home.
P.S. Try a lemon tarragon dressing. I think you’ll be pleased.
P.S.S. I VOTED TODAY AND IT FELT SO FINE!
Jennifer
@Screamin’ Demon: Moonpies and RC Cola are dietary requirements from much farther south of the Mason Dixon line than WV.
boctaoe
I have heard that blood oranges are higher in Vitamin C than the regular oranges. Good for your sinises.
Stooleo
I never use the neti-pot thingy, I just use a glass. Also if you dont’ want to buy the saline packages, its easy to make yourself.
8 oz. warm water
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp baking soda.
Stir until dissolved and snurrf it up.
Michael D.
Damn! Those are some hungry Mache Rosettes!!
Polish the Guillotines
@Zuzu’s Petals:
Sometimes simple is really good. Just nice, fresh food that speaks for itself.
SnarkyShark
Really? Go on! I hadn’t heard that. Well carry on then
SamFromUtah
@BethanyAnne: Sam, you got at least one giggle from the Cheese Whiz comment. :-)
Hee hee – glad to be of service.
ETA: Baconnaise? Not for me, but they’ve got a good solid slogan – "Everything should taste like bacon."
Waxmaker
I didn’t realize this is where the "pouring-stuff-into-your-nose" crowd hung out. I guess there’s a fetish for everything.
Don’t know about black currant juice, but I have a personal recipe to offer for recreating the flavor of $3.00/13-oz bottle "Pomegranate Orange Blossom Red Tea" Pom drink. I love the stuff, but it’s damn expensive, so I came up with this. It passes a side-by-side taste test.
Boil 2 quarts water
In a 1-gallon pitcher, pour the water over 6 tea bags: "Celestial Seasonings African Tea, Moroccan Pomegranate Red"
Steep for 15 minutes, remove tea bags
Add 2 cups Dole Orange/Pineapple juice
Add 1/2 cup agave nectar (available in health food stores)
Stir vigorously
Add lots of ice to fill pitcher, making 1 gallon total.
The Grand Panjandrum
Best. Update. Evah.
kommrade jakevich
@Michael D.: Snerk.
Judy
My condolences on your coffee cup. I HATE when that happens!
J Bean
The only thing that has ever been shown to shorten up the course of a cold is snorting salt water—not echinacea, not Airborne, not vitamin C, and certainly not antibiotics. At the first sign of a cold, mix up a scant 1/2 t. of uniodized salt and a pinch of baking soda in 1 c. of warm water (that is approximately 0.9N saline), stick your nose in the cup and snorkel it on up. It washes the rhinovirus out of your posterior oropharynx which is the only place the damn stuff can reproduce and gets rid of the cold before it starts.
jcricket
When John McCain was a POW he had a nedi-pot, but it was filled with acid.
Loneoak
Oh, you uncultured SOB’s. How can it possibly be that I am commenting at around #80 on a post about freaking neti pots and no one else has linked to this painfully hilarious video by Drew?
One word: Scotch.
Maybe John should try that moonshine with his!
BombIranForchrist
Man, it took me a long, long time to finally listen to my wife and use a neti-pot. When she first showed me the advertisement / movie of someone using it, I laughed for a good day and swore that I would never use it.
Well, I use it now, and it … is … awesome. There was a big cold that swept through our office, and I used the neti-pot every day to try to keep any of the inevitable bacteria from lodging in my sinuses and organizing, and I managed to avoid getting the cold, even though my wife and two children caught it.
It also helps a lot with my allergies.
Love it.
William
I second (or eleventy-third or whatever) the neti pot recommendation.
I’ve been using one more or less daily for five years, and it has made a huge difference in my life, which was previously filled with regular sinus headaches and congestion.
It is indeed a little gross at first. But you get used to it. Think of it the same way you think of toilet paper or q-tips: using them is kinda icky, but not nearly so as not using it. Better to have the gunk outside your head than in it.
Personally, I like the pot more than the squeeze bottle, as it lets the water flow deeper into my sinuses. In this, gravity is your friend.
Delia
I’ve been using a neti pot for about four months. I haven’t been through a cold with it yet, but I’m allergic to dust so I have chronic rhinitis. My allergist had had me on one of those prescription nasal sprays with prednisone in it. Gave me a chronic bloody nose. I finally stopped using it; then I found out about the pot. It works much, much better for keeping my sinuses dry and clear. I tried to get my son interested since he has a lot of allergies, but the whole idea just freaked him out. Once you get the hang of it, it’s pretty simple, just another routine like brushing your teeth. And it’s so damn cheap. Just buy a box of uniodized salt and you’re set.
And I completely understand about the coffee mug. Mine have to be the right size and shape. Big enough handle to be held comfortably. Mug not too big but not too small. Sort of like the Three Bears . . .
Alan
The best place to find the right mug is Pier 1 Imports. For me, the right size has to hold at least 16 oz. :) If you microwave water for tea, then your pick of mug matters. The fine Italian mugs get too hot. The regular styled mugs handle the microwave much better.
We’ve finally got you to use a Neti pot. Now when are you going to grow your own wheat grass?
Chuck Butcher
I am generally pretty careful about touting my little town, I’ve seen what happens to them when they get "discovered." So far we assimilate new comers, or they just go away. We are hicks.
The down side is that we don’t keep our kids here as much as would be desirable.
Jimmm (aka, Jamey)
Y’know what? I am an elitist, because I actually DO think I’m better than Sarah Palin.
kommrade jakevich
@Chuck Butcher: A few years ago people who work in DC started moving out to WVa. Property taxes shot up, along with the number of dickheads talking on their cellphones while driving down narrow streets.
Then the gas prices shot up and the money saved on that relatively cheap house was gobbled up by the 4 hour commute. [Snicker]
I like WVa. It’s frickin beautiful and I’ve gotten a lot nastier vibe off the natives of Pennsylvania.
Chum
The best salad dressing I’ve ever run across is, mix a a couple of fingers of vinegar (any kind, though balsamic is great) with a couple of teaspoons of maple syrup. It has the whole sweet and sour thing going and is excellent. I first had it when the dressing was drizzled over a big chunk of heavily smoked salmon. I’ve since used it on every salad since.
Svensker
With the mache, some walnut oil, toasted walnuts and roquefort, blood orange slices on the side, maybe a drizzle of blood orange juice with some salt and ground pepper at the last.
Mmmmm. My mouth is watering.
I’d go with crabcakes as well.
ajollypyruvate
Zuzu’s Petals: Yes, I live in Northern California. Yay, autumn fruits and veggies and local farms!
Liz
We have blood oranges in the fridge. I may have to have one for dessert tonight. They are AWESOME in salads (especially spinach/dark greens), the juice is beautiful and very richly orangey, and I second/third/whatever the recommendation to use it in a nice refreshing cocktail. Sounds like you are dining like an elitist king tonight! Our local super-cool grocery store sells a blood orange soda that is great to mix with.
Randy Paul
I will have two pepperoni rolls with yellow mustard washed down with a bottle of Strawberry Hill Boones Farm, and for dessert I will have a half-dozen twinkies. If I am feeling really frisky, later on I will have a shot of white lightning, brewed locally and filtered through one of the finest radiators in Randolph County.
What, no possum?
Blood oranges rule, by the way.
JD
Use your neti pot in the shower, it’s a lot easier. Plus, don’t buy their pre-made powder. It’s table salt + baking soda, in about a 1.5:1 ratio, or perhaps 2:1.
jerry
Have you ever had mandarin oranges? Not the cheap, nasty stuff suspended in sugar water, but fresh mandarin oranges.
I tried one at this stuffy, librul, elitist grocery store in Chicago (Fox & Obel) awhile back and…well…let’s just say I’ve never tasted anything so incredibly sweet and delicious.
I tried a blood orange sometime shortly thereafter, but I think we got bad ones, because they were pretty…blah.
But I think I ate all of the mandarins in about 2 days. There must have been 2 dozen of them.
Holy crapola, it was delicious. I bought a full box to take home. My mouth is now watering. I need to find
comrade dsc
I prefer the bottle as well—easier to use in the shower.
I also recommend warming the water to room temp—10-15 seconds in the microwave does it. I was shocked at how much more efficient it was with that simple change.
I swear by this—as soon as I get home from school I "flush" my sinuses. I haven’t had a "bug" in two or three years.
Chuck Butcher
@kommrade jakevich:
I’m about as far away from W VA as you can get in the 48, I understand. One of the frightening swear words out here is Bend, Oregon.
scott
Living here in a foodie town like Seattle I’m intrigued by the first menu w/the Mache Rosettes, crab, blood oranges and feta.
But coming originally, as I do, from the Commonwealth of Kentucky the second, updated menu screams comfort food to me.