More good news! 11 April 2008 6:21 pm
Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, pictures, restaurants, work , trackbackOkay, it’s not quite as exciting as Wednesday’s revelation (and believe me, it was hard to make this post and move that excitement down the page), but there’s some pretty tasty stuff going on at Morning Glory this week:
I just hope there’s some mushrooms left by the time I get back into work on Tuesday. Also, I love the description on the sloppy joes. You’re either into them, or you aren’t, okay? Okay, Josh. I’m in, if they last.
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Ummm…uh…I do like mushrooms. And I think I could be talked into the banana split if you leave out the French toast. I’m trying, but it is difficult for a carnivore such as myself to be quite as jubilant about what Morning Glory has done to my Sloppy Joe. But that’s ok; I still have plenty of excitement leftover from Wednesday. Whoo, hoo! They are going to New York. Weee: Morning Glory is serving tempeh Sloppy Joes– yeeeha!
Ah, CJ, you know me. No mystery meat, and ground-up whatever is about as mystery (and frankly often kinda tasteless) as it gets, so I figure it might as well be some kinda soy. Personally I think frozen, thawed, and then crumbled tofu might have a better texture for sloppy joes, but I fear my even writing that may have been a little traumatic for you. Let me try to make amends with a link to a Cook’s Illustrated tasting report on cheap steaks, which I hope to put to work the next time there’s good stuff marked down for quick sale at the meat-selling hippie mart. Cheap cut of a happy cow beats expensive cut of a sad cow any day, especially with a fun and easy America’s Test Kitchen recipe for pan-searing it. Om nom nom! (Just, um, not for awhile. I think I used up this month’s meat quota on chicken cacciatore last week. It was awesome, but more than enough dead anything to keep me sated and wondering what would happen to tofu in a rich tomato-wine sauce… and there I go again, with the traumatic remarks. I can’t help myself!)
Ahhhh. Thank you. I feel much better. But this puzzles me: I thought you were strictly vegetarian? I take it you are willing to lean to the dark side every now an again in the interests of food exploration?
CJ, I’m not even vegetarian (any chance to link back to that post, oh yes), but I mostly eat vegetarian and even vegan food. I’m often mistaken for vegetarian (usually but not always by meat-eaters; by vegetarian standards I am unmistakably an omnivore), and that’s pretty fine with me, because as previously discussed I find the vast majority of meat to be repulsive for social, political, environmental, ethical, and food safety type reasons, and so I usually prefer veg*n food if possible. In general, my rule is to eat whatever’s most delicious at any given moment, and often that isn’t meat because eating it too often (or too much) can make me feel all ooky, perhaps in part because I don’t do it very much/often, but again that’s very okay by me — I’d much rather eat really good meat very occasionally than crap mystery meat all the time; it’s all about pursuit of deliciousness. There’s plenty of proof of my occasional carnivory in TracyFood on Flickr, but I’ve only recently started tagging stuff “not even vegetarian”. Clearly, I’m not wasting enough time on keeping those pictures obsessively organized!