Favorite fried food

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What’s your favorite fried food indulgence?

April 30, 2012
Favorite Fried Food

Fish and Chips

I absolutely love fish and chips with malt vinegar. I’ve had the wonderful good fortune of having been to London several times and have had at least two excellent versions in two pubs, though I can’t remember their names. Here in the states there is a cool restaurant/pub called Phonebooth. It’s on Second avenue between 10th and 11th streets in New York city, you can tell it’s the place because it has the red English phone booths in front of its storefront. They offer a delicious fish and chips complete with the malt vinegar, they offer Spaten on tap and you can even order a snake bite, half cider and half beer. Fish and chips, light and hearty at the same time.

The beauty of tuna

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Today for lunch at the hotel I had the French equivalent of a tuna salad, the salad Nicoise on a warm baguette. The tuna that was in the sandwich was a tuna steak that had been poached in olive oil and then it was flakes into small pieces and combined with pea shoots, roasted red pepper, chopped black olives, sliced hard boiled egg, anchovies and delicate baby lettuce. The salad still had a hint of warmth as did the baguette. It was honestly one of the best pan bagnat I have ever had. A salad Nicoise on a sandwich is called a pan bagnat and vice versa. Don’t get me wrong, I often make myself tuna salad at home and I enjoy it very much. The tuna fish in a can that I purchase, is the one in olive oil and I chop up celery, nice and fine along with its leaves, all that mixed with Dijon mustard and mayonnaise, salt and pepper and it makes for a nice sandwich. This one at the restaurant was excellent because it went the extra mile with different textures and flavors. My taste buds are quite happy.