Vote on this weekend's special!

[East Coast Hustle]

So I got a big box of sea beans in and I'm torn between two dishes on how I want to use them this weekend. So, discriminating culinarians of PD, what say you?

[LMNO]

I'm a fan of both Halibut and scapes, and while I like periwinkles, I personally tend to avoid burre blanc and fish.  You probably have a way of cutting though the heaviness, though.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I am not qualified to vote.

[Reginald Ret]

I voted Halibut, because i like the sound halibut makes in my head when i read it.

...

Halibut.

[Cain]

Faroese salmon.  It's meant to taste as good as wild Atlantic salmon.  And while a garlic scape gazpacho does sound appealing, I know quite a few people tend to be put off by anything with the word garlic in it.  Because they are culinary cowards, but still.

[LMNO]

Garlic is culinarily adventurous?  You've been in the UK too long.

[Cain]

No.  Well, I have, but that's besides the point.  People wont eat garlic if they're out on a date, for example.

[LMNO]

But if you both eat it, that cancels out...




...I'm beginning to realize why so many of my dates went so poorly.

[East Coast Hustle]

Garlic scapes (the green shoots) are milder than the bulbs, but the owner decided for me and it's going to be the halibut.

Personally, I'm starting to lean towards option C: ECH throws a complete wobbler in front of a packed restaurant, says "fuck all this bullshit", puts ECHGF and the dogs in the SUV, and heads for Virginia Beach or somewhere further south.

[East Coast Hustle]

Which is to say, this shit isn't worth the money and I'm starting to realize that I REALLY don't give two shits for the prestige or "big fish in a tiny pond"-level "celebrity". I very well might be the 3rd best chef in Maine (Masa Miyake is like a GOD and I've got a ways to go before I consider myself even with Dana Street - sorry Melissa Kelley fans, she's not even the best chef in Rockland), but I literally could not give less of a fuck. I think I've reached that point that all chefs reach where it's time to get a book deal, resign yourself to being a broken down husk of a man by 45 who is going to die early, or GTFO and don't look back.

And I don't see a book deal coming down the pipes anytime soon.

[LMNO]

Hey, I found the Menu at ECH's place:

[East Coast Hustle]

Yeah, pretty fuckin' much. Though I've managed to so far resist all attempts to force me to use egregious amounts of truffles. And I will put my newfangled deviled eggs up against anyone's, at least until bottarga becomes the new truffles.

[LMNO]

Bottarga.


Fucking A yeah, motherfucker goddamn bottarga.