Hulyo 22, 2010

At the Classic Lunch Café...

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... I'm having Classic Lunch #1.

34 (na) komento:

MadisonMan ayon kay ...

Those look like olives.

Olives are on my permanent no-fly list.

traditionalguy ayon kay ...

That looks like a small snack. Does lunch come later?

T J Sawyer ayon kay ...

Why the mouse on the plate?

Big Mike ayon kay ...

The lady can cook, too! Dang, but Meade's lucky!

Dust Bunny Queen ayon kay ...

What IS it?

traditionalguy ayon kay ...

I learned some interesting olive facts. If you press the olives in an olive press, you will have Extra Virgin Olive oil full of small bits of olive for taste. But you should NOT cook with Extra Virgin because the small olive bits it contains will burn. After the second and third pressings the 100% Olive oil comes out and that is meant for cooking.

Beta Rube ayon kay ...

If you can't a afford a decent lunch, let me know.

I live in the Milwaukee area and I'd be glad to drop off some sustenance
for you and Meade.

It's the least I can do to repay the many hours of bloggy goodness I've enjoyed.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Remember a few months ago when we talked about Phoebe Prince, the bullied girl who committed suicide? Emily Bazalon at Slate has a really interesting follow-up piece on it. She did some actual reporting, talked to a lot of people and went into the girl's history; it's a different story than the reactionary earlier reports.

http://www.slate.com/id/2260952/entry/2260953/

A lot of commenters accuse her of blaming the victim, which I don't think that she did, she simply showed that there was a lot more going on than the fact that she was bullied at school- she had a history of mental health problems. Although she didn't go into it, I think the story shows that her parents were pretty flaky as well, and didn't give her much supervision. Either way, though, really interesting.

MadisonMan ayon kay ...

DBQ, it looks like brie slathered on some kind of flatbread to me. And, heinous olives.

lemondog ayon kay ...

Prunes and pita....because I like the alliteration.

Henry ayon kay ...

#1? Is this first in a series?

What's Meade having? A steak?

Well, I'm picking up burgers on the way home.

Dust Bunny Queen ayon kay ...

Ah. Brie.

I love brie and so does my cat. When I have brie, crackers, fruit and heinous olives; my cat stands on her hind legs and begs loudly for a piece of cheese. She is so spoiled

Original Mike ayon kay ...

Olives. Good for your heart. Good for your buds.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

The pancake with strawberries and blueberries looked more appetizing.

Lynne ayon kay ...

DBQ-

We love brie at our house, too. Our traditional New Year's Eve dinner is sharing a half-melted wedge of brie and some freshly roasted garlic and caviar, with a crusty loaf of french bread to smear it all on, and champagne to drink.

Tres romantique!

I had a cat who begged for anything vanilla- especially vanilla cookie crumbs.

Jason (the commenter) ayon kay ...

Olives, skin, and lots of whiskey. That is a classic.

Moose ayon kay ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSpPY8Lkth0

Calypso Facto ayon kay ...

Pancakes for breakfast, flatbread for lunch, and...tortillas for dinner?

An unleavened day. Out of yeast at Althouse?

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

Some kind of flatbread! I'm a devotee of Margaret's Artisan Flatbread, specifically the rosemary flavor.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

The drink is this sparkling water with Pom.

And large black olives and brie cheese.

I think that's a good 300 calories, so it's not too small a lunch for a woman my age.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

And then we went out on Lake Wingra -- me in a kayak and Meade on a paddleboard -- until the tornado warning siren went off and we had to paddle back in.

veni vidi vici ayon kay ...

Beetles and paper scraps?

ricpic ayon kay ...

Pomegranate juice sounds great. Cranberry juice (unsweetened) would also go well with this lunch.

ricpic ayon kay ...

I can hardly tell the difference between brie and camembert. Canoe?

Deborah M. ayon kay ...

In my house, that would be matzah, hummus and dates.

GMay ayon kay ...

Dear lord how can you subsist on that??

I'm not even the same universe as fat and that doesn't even look like an appetizer to me.

Elliott A ayon kay ...

Ann- You have both a presumably empty coffee mug and a glass with a cool drink, neither of which are on the coaster! Did you add the coaster for visual effect?

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

I don't know why the coaster is there. You don't need a coaster on a counter.

chuck b. ayon kay ...

We had one of those cast iron skillet-type things in college. We called it "the thing that warms the tortillas".

Baden ayon kay ...

What's with the vignetting in the picture? Is it:

a)misaligned lens hood

b)DX lens mounted on a full size sensor/35mm camera

c)you took the picture from the neighbouring room through a hole in the wall?

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

That skillet is older than I am. My mother made pancakes on it.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

vignetting

Done in iPhoto to declutter what was a cluttered corner.

Daniel Fielding ayon kay ...

Ann- I have an old skillet too, from about 1920 or so- my former landlady on Hill Street in A2 gave it to me.

BTW, Idont know if i am an over-eater or a glutton or what, but, I couldnt survive eating a lunch as small as in the pic. That is what I eat each time I pass through the kitchen!!! :)

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

"I couldnt survive eating a lunch as small as in the pic."

How tall are you? How old? You have to be careful not to eat too much as you get older. It is hard not to gain weight. I love cheese and crackers, but they have a lot more calories than you might think.

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