GASTRONORMOUS

There is something odious to me about serving scrambled eggs in a martini glass, but I must admit this recipe for creamy scrambled eggs with mushrooms and herbs featured over at the Kitchn sounds totally delish.

Eat It: Brooklyn gives a more or less negative review of Alma, where I have had mixed experiences, too. I have had enchiladas wading in a pool of cheese-oil there more than once. Sometimes their food leaves me cold, but some lucky nights it is spot-on. The guacamole is reliably good, and their brunch can be amazing, depending on what you order. EIB has some enchiladas that she rightly complains look unappetizing. I think I can explain the iceberg-lettuce topping, though: My husband makes muy excellente New Mexican enchiladas, and always tops them with iceberg and onions, so I guess is is a southwestern thing. That isn’t how we do it in California, but I sort of like the bit of freshness and crunch it adds.

The Epicurious blog reports on the new COMPOSTABLE cups and plates that you can use at your next picnic. Interestingly, they are made by Solo, makers of the ubiquitous red or blue plastic tumblers. Good for them, for not contributing more to the Pacific Ocean island of plastic.

Years ago, I had my friend Eddy over for some baked beans and corn bread I made, and pretty much every single time I have seen him since then, he has mentioned how delicious those beans were, and he wished I would make them again. Thing is, I seem to have lost the recipe. I cannot find it in my recipe file, and I am pretty sure I did not get it from a cook book. Well, I might just have to try this recipe from the Amateur Gourmet, as he pronounces these “the best beans of your life.”

Growing up in a, shall we say, non-cosmopolitan central California town, you can imagine that the buffet restaurant called Smorga Bob’s (I swear) was a big hit. And it was, for a while. It is long gone, but I still remember they had swedish meatballs in deference to the titular reference to a smorgasboard, but otherwise, the menu was a free-for-all, pan-nation collection of meat, grease, and starch. Well, you can certainly get much closer to what a true smorgasboard tonight at the Swedish Midsummer Festival in Battery Park City. This, and other weekend food event are listed over at Serious Eats: NY.

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