The end of Beach Week
The time has come to pack up the car and head back over the bridge. It was nice to get away for a week from customers who leave lousy tips, trendy topics like sous vide cooking and foam, and crab cakes. Oh wait. I guess we didn't get away from crab cakes. Still, you know what I mean.
But now we have to get back to work.
I have a Top 10 coming up Tuesday that I haven't even thought about.
The following week I'm on vacation, and while I'll have my trusty laptop with me, I wouldn't mind having one easy post a day I could write in advance.
One vacation I did "Second Helpings," where I repeated posts. Did I have a feature one time called "Stupid Easy Food Questions" and make you do the work, or did I just think about it and discard it? Anybody have any new ideas?
And, of course, Fourth of July is looming. I could do a Top 10 on the best places to watch fireworks in the area, but are there 10 of them? I couldn't name them, but maybe you can.
And what about Fourth food itself? Anything to discuss there?
(Barbara Haddock Taylor/Sun photographer)
Comments
I feel sorry for anyone who was actually at the beach this week, with all the rain. The worse beach trip we ever had it rained for four days straight. We had two young boys in a hotel room. Glum.
Posted by: Dahlink | June 20, 2009 8:40 AM
Bucky was stuck on a pile of rocks all week.
Posted by: jl | June 20, 2009 8:45 AM
Fourth food is picnic food, unless you count the red, white and blue mashed potatoes we had at Girl Scout camp the year of the Bicentennial.
Posted by: Lissa | June 20, 2009 8:58 AM
Maybe best "unusual" ingredients or variations for potato salad?
Posted by: One Too Many Mini Eggs | June 20, 2009 11:15 AM
Perhaps a top ten list of All American Restaurants.
Now, I know such a term will lead to the usual suspects questioning the term "all american" as it relates to food at first and then later as it relates to culture, but there might at least be a few hours of talking about hot dogs before the topic spirals down into an Antrho-Soc abyss.
Posted by: Robert of Cross Keys | June 20, 2009 11:34 AM
How about a Top 10 list of non-alcoholic summer drinks?
Posted by: Jules W. | June 20, 2009 12:24 PM
Clams, clams, clams, bacon and clams (an homage to Monty Python's Spam song). Top Ten clam dishes: hard clams, soft clams, cooked clams, raw clams, cherry stones, little necks, top necks, quahogs, cockles (but but mussels) alive alive oh! Clams casino, posillipo, steamed clams with drawn butter, stuffed clams, Rocco's vongole with in tomato, olive oil and garlic sauce (CLAMS!). Sushi clams: giant clams, geoduck, razor clams, surf clams, akagai, hokkigai, mirugai, tairagai, torigai, clam chowder, clam rolls, cioppino, fried clams, breaded clams, bouillabaisse, clam Po Boys, smoked clams, pasta with clam sauce
I don't have recommendations except for Rocco's. I'm looking for recommendatins. Clams!
Posted by: VoodooPork ■|:o) | June 20, 2009 1:37 PM
Finally ate at Pollo a la Brasa, across from Santoni's in Baltimore Highlands. Chicken was ok, yucca frita was excellent (best I've had, actually), cole slaw was sweeter than ambrosia (which is not a good thing). Portions were much smaller than Chicken Rico. The green sauce was hot and good, the mayo-based sauce was bland and...sweetish?
The room is plain but clean, with minimal Peruvian kitsch and only one flat screen TV (which was blaring out MLB in Spanish, at an equal volume with the Latin American pop).
It was ok, but I think the next time I'm down there and hungry, I'll try the little Dominican place between the bus stops.
Posted by: Lissa | June 20, 2009 2:15 PM
Fourth of July food, to me, is the classic cookout/barbecue fare: Burgers and dogs on the grill, potato and macaroni salad, cole slaw, perhaps some steamed crabs, and plenty of ice cold beer.
That sounds pretty good, especially the beer since its been hotter than the hinges of Hell here for a week.
Posted by: PCB Rob | June 20, 2009 2:51 PM
Alas this was not ready earlier in Beach Week.
Your friend Lord Marmalade has been thrust into the Modern Age with Lord Marmalade's Manor, a web log that we have created as a surprise for his Lordship. Whilst we cannot guarantee a steady stream of memoir such as the sparkling first one, we hope that this will serve as a palate for his wicked quill.
Enjoy "Whereupon Lord Marmalade discovers the Manwich and other American treats"
Right now he is walking Mimsy anmd Puddles, but he should be quite surpised by this. Enjoy.
Posted by: Bev and Viv | June 20, 2009 6:25 PM