who knew, part 2342552
Jan. 4th, 2024 00:15![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ursamajorMe, yesterday: "... that means my posts about the Asian American Thanksgiving thing we've been formally doing for the last six or seven years, where the majority of dishes we put on the table came from recipes by Asian American chefs? ... haven't made it over here yet."
Me, today: *filled in the missing decade plus of Thanksgiving menus, including all of the formally-declared Asian American Thanksgiving ones* :D
And that brings me up to the end of November, where I had The Worst Meatball Sub EVER.
What he brought back was Emphatically Not a Meatball Sub. It had fresh tomatoes and almost no tomato sauce at all, possibly just the juice from the fresh tomatoes. It had GARLIC AIOLI glopped all over it. And it would have come WITH LETTUCE BY DEFAULT except that Hyoun stopped them from putting it in in time.
What I'd been expecting was a fried chicken patty or a fistful of meatballs (finished in the sauce), in marinara sauce, with mozzarella, on a toasted sub roll. Like I used to get at Al's, or La Grassa's, or Capone's, or Pace's, or Tasty Burger's Chicky Chicky Parm Parm.
At least we ended that day on a better note; we were looking for fast food post-choir dinner at 9:45 pm on a weeknight, decided on french fries and chicken nuggets, and got in line at McD's, only to see the bright neon sign announcing that THE MCRIB WAS BACK. Sohyounpark was quite happy!
But I still wanted a damned meatball sub. So a few weeks later, we made them.
Slightly overbroiled the bread in trying to get the cheese right, but it was exactly what we've been looking for since late November. Just an easy stovetop marinara, meatballs finished in the sauce (we had Molly Wizenberg's falafel spiced lamb meatballs on hand, so not exactly trad, but it worked for our purposes), sub rolls, and mozzarella (or provolone if you have it). Simple stuff, easy to do (the most tedious part is making the meatballs), and exactly what we'd been looking for. This will totally be going in the regular rotation now.
Me, today: *filled in the missing decade plus of Thanksgiving menus, including all of the formally-declared Asian American Thanksgiving ones* :D
And that brings me up to the end of November, where I had The Worst Meatball Sub EVER.
Me: "I've been having a craving for a meatball sub or a chicken parm, can you get me whatever they ahve that's like that?"
What he brought back was Emphatically Not a Meatball Sub. It had fresh tomatoes and almost no tomato sauce at all, possibly just the juice from the fresh tomatoes. It had GARLIC AIOLI glopped all over it. And it would have come WITH LETTUCE BY DEFAULT except that Hyoun stopped them from putting it in in time.
What I'd been expecting was a fried chicken patty or a fistful of meatballs (finished in the sauce), in marinara sauce, with mozzarella, on a toasted sub roll. Like I used to get at Al's, or La Grassa's, or Capone's, or Pace's, or Tasty Burger's Chicky Chicky Parm Parm.
At least we ended that day on a better note; we were looking for fast food post-choir dinner at 9:45 pm on a weeknight, decided on french fries and chicken nuggets, and got in line at McD's, only to see the bright neon sign announcing that THE MCRIB WAS BACK. So
hyounpark was quite happy!But I still wanted a damned meatball sub. So a few weeks later, we made them.
Slightly overbroiled the bread in trying to get the cheese right, but it was exactly what we've been looking for since late November. Just an easy stovetop marinara, meatballs finished in the sauce (we had Molly Wizenberg's falafel spiced lamb meatballs on hand, so not exactly trad, but it worked for our purposes), sub rolls, and mozzarella (or provolone if you have it). Simple stuff, easy to do (the most tedious part is making the meatballs), and exactly what we'd been looking for. This will totally be going in the regular rotation now.
