The Battle of Tastings
ES BFF JoeHoya has been busy telling the MSM to STFU and embrace tasting menus, and our editorial board has to agree: the more tastes, the better. Period.
So upon finding my cupboard virtually bare this week, I decided to make my own lunchtime tasting menu out of the leftovers in my fridge (it’s good to be a full-time blogger).
OK, maybe this isn’t exactly a tasting menu, but hey, it has three things on it, and I was fairly impressed with my own presentation so I thought I would pass it along – details after the jump.
I had just a few lumps of leftover mashed potatoes, so I fried up a mini-version of one of my parmesan potato cakes – went simple this time – basically just dipped the potato in egg and parm and let it sizzle.
The single cake was perfect for a lunch serving, but the potato shortage left me with an unforeseen imbalance – I was left with about two-thirds of an egg just cracked open and lying there. I also had some leftover spinach (sauteed a la mom with garlic and EVOO), so I mixed that up with the remaining egg and fried that up as well – kind of a mostly-spinach scramble.
To balance out my plate, I whipped up one of my AOL-approved brieadillas, filled this time with chopped kalamata olives and cherry tomatoes.
A complete lunch-time tasting menu, all made in one pan, in about 20 mins. total.
We ussually take the easy way out and do frozen finger food meals, it is basically like having an hors d’oeuvres meal.
Its a fun tasting menu, and for the indecisive, provides lots of choices
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James
Does it make me a HUGE nerd that I would recommend a price point of $10.66 for this meal based solely on the post title?
And woohoo for my promotion from “commentarati” to “ES BFF!” Next stop…something with a few more vowels in it.
haha, well played sir.
Maybe next time, BS, you can follow up with a Magna a la Carta?
so i attempted your mashed potato cakes last night. i think i added too much flour, b/c not all of it cooked off. but they were quite delish!
you know what’s not delish? Scrubbing dried flour and water mixture off the counter top later.
aaaaaahhhhhhhh.
you’re such a good roommate!