Load plan
Crab salad
Cape Cod
Steamers
Pickled okra
Mexican
Sloppy Joes
Mojitos
Pulled pork
Lobster roll
Spring rolls
Garlic shrimps
English muffins
Egg sandwich
Ribeye on the grill
Thai
Scallops, various
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Chunky Monkey
Clam chowder
Gravlax
Onion rings
Gyoza
Strawberry rhubarb pie
Jordan’s
Cadillac Mountain
Turkey sandwich
Raspberries
Gjetost
Dark & Stormies
Key lime pie
BLT
Corn on the cob
Swordfish kebabs
Reuben
Anchor Steam
Everything bagels
Burgers and dogs on the grill
Sweet potato fries
Malacca gin
Italian from Amato’s
Black bean soup
Chili Chile con queso
Meatball sub
Mussels in wine
New England boiled dinner
Baked beans
Ribs
Spinach-artichoke dip
Magda’s sour/bitter radicchio salad
Eggplant parmigiano
Snyder’s
Eggs Benedict
Is that everything you’re going to eat when you visit the States or everything you miss?
Comment by Hava — Saturday 21 March 09 @ 23.48 MDT+2.00
It certainly seems like you should be able to conjure up some of that stuff in a city of 2 million people. Egg sandwich? Onion rings? Raspberries? However, I am deeply gratified that some of my musings made your first draft list. Can’t wait!
Comment by gaoo — Sunday 22 March 09 @ 01.29 MDT+2.00
The best Thai food in town is walking distance from our house. Jeff lived on spring rolls and pineapple soda for weeks. We’d stop on the way home from chemo. We usually get spring rolls, pad thai, satay-or what Jeff calls rat-on-a-stick, garlic shrimp, and my new favorite: Hormok, which is salmon baked in red curry & coconut milk with slivered red and green peppers, onions, snowpeas, and whole basil leaves…..and how about Larb Gai which is spicy ground chicken w/ lemon grass, red onion, mint, scallion, roasted rice and hot chilies on cool lettuce and cucumber, mmmmmm. And the lady owner always bows, smiles, and gives us free curry puffs whenever we come in. Life is good.
Comment by gaoo — Sunday 22 March 09 @ 03.49 MDT+2.00
Wait a minute, gaoo: are you telling me that your email was not sent in response to this list? I posted this before your whole salmon-and-corn thing arrived.
It’s not that none of these things are available here — for example, corn on the cob is sold on most street corners — but be sure that they are things we wish to encounter or plan to prepare while in the U.S.
The Dark & Stormies are Magda’s contribution. Wait till we show you how to make homemade ginger beer that will take your scalp off.
I think I found that Thai place last time I was there, and I’m pretty sure that I ordered that very salmon dish you describe. And we love Rat-on-a-Stick.
Comment by jds — Sunday 22 March 09 @ 07.47 MDT+2.00
It is true, I wrote to you about crab salad & mojitos et al hours before I saw your post. I thought your post was in response to MY list, haha. Well, at least we know what is important around here: food. Can’t wait to kick back with a couple of rockin Dark & Stormies and a plate of mussels with you all. How do they do corn on the cob in Bulgaria? Any interesting twist? Like in Mexico where it is drenched in lime juice and kickass chili powder. But they also put cucumber in fruit salad there. Go figure…
Comment by gaoo — Sunday 22 March 09 @ 22.11 MDT+2.00
This list reminds me to ask you 1.) when, exactly, la Famille S will be in the States, and 2.) whether we might be able to finagle some sort of meet-up, which could, of course, be combined with consumption of some/several of the items mentioned above.
Comment by Emily — Monday 23 March 09 @ 01.10 MDT+2.00
Let me get this straight – you’re going to the United States in order to buy ENGLISH Muffins?
Comment by simon — Monday 23 March 09 @ 14.29 MDT+2.00
Please add “drinks at Julie’s place” to this excellent list. My husband makes a mean sidecar.
gaoo, the less you know about Bulgarian corn on the cob, the better. Think overcooked seed corn.
Comment by juliloquy — Monday 23 March 09 @ 20.44 MDT+2.00
I was wonderin’. I was trying to think of something clever involving flaming dumpsters, but could not. I say, invite all friends within 3000 miles to one giant BBQ. Maybe a weekend- with cookouts, beach days, takeout, and brunch. Then there will be time for everything we want to do in three short weeks.Woohoo. The cousins will all be bestest friends by the end, and then it will be over.
Comment by gaoo — Tuesday 24 March 09 @ 00.37 MDT+2.00
Nice list! We’ll flesh it out. Oh, wait, that’s exactly the wrong verb! Your future brother-in-law is vegetarian, so look forward also to mezze plates, savory spinach pastries, grilled vegetable skewers, and fritatti galore!
Oh, and he makes a proper Pimm’s cup. See you on the deck in the sun!
Comment by Elsa — Wednesday 25 March 09 @ 04.10 MDT+2.00
Dude, I’ve been searching everywhere for Malacca gin, and the best information I have been able to find suggests that it is no longer made. Thus it is only available from purveyors who have not yet managed to clear out their old stock of it. But good luck with the hunt.
I’ve never really recovered from the psychological damage I incurred upon finding that there is no Malacca gin in Malacca. It’s just so wrong.
Comment by jdog — Monday 30 March 09 @ 07.06 MDT+2.00
I was fairly sure that they’d stopped making it, but thought I might still see if I could hunt some down.
If I had been with you in Malacca, I’m pretty sure we would have had no choice but to burn the entire place to the ground upon making that discovery.
Comment by jds — Monday 30 March 09 @ 08.20 MDT+2.00
Also, I don’t mean to be all picky and shit, but I think you mean chile con queso. Chili is the meat and/or bean stew-like substance.
Sorry. We New Mexicans can’t really help ourselves.
Comment by jdog — Tuesday 31 March 09 @ 10.06 MDT+2.00
You are entirely correct. I am usually so assiduous about observing the various usages of chili/chile/Chile/chilli/chilly. Thanks for catching that.
Comment by jds — Tuesday 31 March 09 @ 16.22 MDT+2.00