Lunch out?
I went out for lunch recently at a new favorite dive and decided to take a photo. Here's my reuben that automatically came with fries -- a reuben is something that's not usually on their menu. fwiw, I would have liked more sauerkraut but the beef was excellent. :) How about a lunch out photo thread? What does your lunch look like at one of your favorite places to eat out? :)
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3 years agoI don’t have a pic but there’s a local cafe we like where we always order their Reuben. Side choices are fries, coleslaw, potato salad, fruit, side salad or soup. Really good! My mom used to make Reubens often.
This trio of two salads and cheese bread is a huge lunch favorite at another restaurant here called The North Woods Inn. It might not look like much but people get major cravings for this tasty combo. Red cabbage is especially TDF.
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Comments (7)I just know that Mom is excited to be outdoors and go for a ride and a few errands and that lunch out. Then it's like oh i'm soooo tired, i just can't do anything more, and she really is tired. But mentally she makes herself get out and about for those errands and then her body sorta overrides her exuberance (unless she's seated and enjoying chatting with someone over lunch). But if she's bored, watchout, let's go ginnie, now! It's a funny tie between the exhaustion and the control. She can also be sorta embarrassing to waitresses and clerks at times, and I have shushed at dr.s offices when she has to wait over a half hour. I just cannot believe that she doesn't think she has to wait her turn!!! I try to tell to behave and she'll get a sucker when we leave...hehehehe Sometimes she laughs and rides above it, and sometimes she tells me (lightly) off. This week in the car, I told her before the appt. that I wanted her to remember to mind her manners and pleasantly wait her turn...this particular dr. is notorious for and hr. and a half wait. When she started to complain too loudly, I told her that I'd leave her to walk home if she didn't quiet down. She swore, but she quit it. I just have to learn to time my warnings, sometimes I'm too late and she just boils over. Luckily an hr. later we wr both crying and apologizing, but she said some mean things about me that will always be there. We both want to be in control, but we both are trying to cater to the other's wishes at certain times. My dad is very easy going and almost quiet these days...so she has the added burden of trying to keep him doing his little chores around the house. He is just now beginning to feel like she's bossing him constantly and it's getting his dobber down, so to speak. He had a stroke 6/05 and is very silent these days, reflexes are very slow, speech and large motor skills are fine. Oh, it could be worse... and probably will be...See Morecan't see one grandkid, must take them all or none. what?!
Comments (21)Oh for Pete's sake, there is ABSOLUTELY no reason to think the fiance is some kind of psycho abuser wanting to molest OP's granddaughter. This is blame-shifting at it's finest. It's irresponsible and slanderous and it doesn't help the OP at all. If anything is leads her down a false path that will only make her problems with her daughter worse. Per OP, the fiance doesn't seem to like her or her husband much. He is not warm, doesn't make much eye contact and seems to avoid them to a certain extent. However, she also reports that he is civil and there's been no open hostility or disagreement or harsh words. He appears to dislike them, but has not withheld his daughters from the OP, which he could have done if he disliked her intensely. OP considers his daughters to be unruly brats who don't really belong to her family, altho she's willing to make a small effort to play step-grandmother if it's not too much trouble. The fiance did participate in the Disney breakfast altho it was clear he was not happy about it--so he's willing to accommodate her to a certain extent to keep family peace. To try to blame the estrangement on him, and then escalate him into an abusing child molester is ridiculous. In any interpersonal conflict there is fault on both sides, even though usually everyone wants to believe that they are completely innocent and misused. If you are estranged from a family member, you ARE partially at fault. People don't like hearing that; they think they must be an exception, but it doesn't work that way. And nothing can be resolved until they are willing to own their part of the problem. Nothing. In fact, it will continue to get worse as long as someone insists they are perfectly lovely and always correct and complete victim. The OP has a multi decade relationship with her daughter. It's long and complicated. But we know that her daughter worries about the OP making scenes, and that worry would be based upon past experience. We know the daughter has accused OP of trying to buy her and her children, and in fact OP did state she built a $100,000 for a 2 year old (altho I am sure that's not the only reason the pool was built I hope). The problem was severe enough, the daughter forbade further gifts and the OP worries about gifts and cards being returned. She has only recently sent a tub of popcorn at Thanksgiving which is not inappropriate, if it came before the request to stop sending gifts. If it came afterwards, it was pushy and way out of bounds. Per OP she's had problems with several other family members. And she was pushy and insensitive regarding the Disney trip. They invited themselves, and then when they found out they weren't wanted after buying the tickets but before getting on the plane, they did not change the date of their vacation or did not go as scheduled but stay away from the daughter's family (which would have been easy to do). She insisted on a breakfast. She did not respect what they wanted. We can also see from what the OP wrote that she has conflicting requirements, she doesn't want to be in large gatherings with the girls, unless it's at Disney. She doesn't like coping with all of them, but is willing to babysit. She calls them unruly, out of control and screeching, but says they are lovely. She doesn't want to take them out in public, unless apparently they are at an amusement park. We also see from the OP's post that she is reactionary, resists self insight, and lashes out easily when she doesn't hear what she wants to hear. You can imagine how difficult would be for her daughter to deal with. And the OP's rejection of her newborn son over not getting to see her daughter alone would be very painful and angering. The OP is unreasonably rigid. We see from what the OP wrote here she is very focused on what she wants and does not seem to be much aware of the wants of her daughter. That her daughter wants something different than what OP wants does not make what the daughter wants wrong or bad, just different. But OP doesn't see that, she only sees that it is not what she wants and finds that sufficient basis to judge her daughter's wants as being wrong. Two strong willed women whose wants conflict does not in any way mean a third person is an child molesting abuser. It's very clear that the OP is at fault here. The daughter is also at fault. She is as inflexible as her mother, and just because her mother is rigid, does not make it right for the daughter to be rigid. What harm would it be to allow some time for grandmother and granddaughter to be alone together at least on occasion? One would think the daughter would understand OP would like to recreate that time she spent with her grandmother and the time when her granddaughter lived with her. I wonder if the daughter has nice memories of spending time along with her grandmother, or did the OP not facilitate that relationship? I also wonder if the daughter is worried about her mother showing favoritism among the children. The favoritism is clear (and understandable perhaps) especially the distinction between the biological granddaughter and step granddaughters, but it's hard believe the daughter would tolerate her mother favoring her daughter over the son. The daughter also has problems communicating with her mother. She didn't want her mother to come on the vacation and yet when her parents asked, she didn't say so right out then. Perhaps she was afraid of a scene. But that's not an excuse to not be clear. l Perhaps she thought it was rhetorical, it wouldn't really happen, or thought it meant it was something they should do sometime, not necessarily this time. A sort of 'let's do lunch' proposal. But again, it was her responsibility as well as OP's to make sure they were talking about the same thing. OP said she seemed initially approving of the idea then changed her mind after the tickets were purchased. Maybe she liked the idea but her fiance didn't and she encouraged the self-inviting without considering it was also her fiance's vacation and she should have spoken to him before allowing anyone else to crash the vacation, particularly since he's made it clear, they aren't his favorite people. So perhaps she initially encouraged her parents to join the vacation w/o thinking of her fiance's feelings. And then she found herself in the awkward position of having to backtrack. (btw, that the fiance may not have wanted OP and her husband on the vacation does not mean he's a child molesting abuser) So the daughter is at fault too. But the daughter isn't the one writing here, she's not the one deprived of the relationship with these children. Children who won't be children for long. OP however is the one looking for answers, and the only responsible answer is for HER to change some of the things about her that contributes to the problem. Doing the same thing she's done for the last 5+ years is not going to suddenly work. She needs to do something else, and blaming the fiance is not that something else. Looking honestly are her part in the estrangement is. A therapist would be a worthwhile investment....See Moresnow cancellations
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3 years agoKatz's Deli NYC. Pastrami on rye. Late fall 2019 we had a massive snowstorm. My car was safe in a parking garage. But roads were not plowed in time. Too fast of a snow fall. I got a hotel room. A block from Katz's. 😀 A dozen of us, co-workers, stayed in a botique hotel, --last minute reservations are super cheap but work paid for it. Katz's and a rooftop hotel bar like a holiday party. Only ate 1/4 but had a room mini fridge for a breakfast pastrami. --and the rest DH had for dinner....
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Don't usually have much of a lunch but we were in Mexico recently and met a friend of his from home
for lunch. His friend stays in Mexico for two months every winter but doesn't much care for Mexican food so we went to Fuego Santo and I had the most delicious grilled chicken sandwich. It was huge! I ate almost half and took the rest home for my dinner.
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I love dim sum! If you’re ever in Australia, Lars, I’ll take you out for dim sum 😁
DD and her husband went to Katz’s Deli a few yearts ago when they were in NY. They split a Reuben and DD said tthey were in a ”meat coma” for the rest of the afternoon.I don’t often go out for lunch as I still work, but on a recent holiday in Melbourne we did have a pretty good pizza
Also an okonomiyaki
with miso cheesecake for dessert.
The cheesecake was surprisingly good: the filling was creamy and the miso just a light frisson around the edges of your mouth 😁
When we’re in town here, if we go out for lunch it’s usually banh mi from a local deli. They know us well there. - 3 years ago
That looks really good. Interesting about the miso cheesecake, yum.
When we eat out we want something new or special or what we don't have at home. And does not need to be expensive.
Yes, Katz's is a dietary coma. Once every few years and only with house guests.
I have a few culinary walking tours. A few dozen choices depending on our guests. My BIL and his wife love this walk.
Williamsburg Russ and Daughters for a classic stuffed smoked salmon bagel. Cut into 4 to share.
Walk over the WillyB bridge to Manhattan. Katz's pastrami shared 4 ways. I just want a single bite--(DH caries a small backpack with a foil quilted bag and small ice pack) 😜
Downtown tour includes ChinaTown for soup dumplings.
3 years agoI have a hard enough time taking pictures of food I've made. Here's a pretty picture from Trip Advisor of a favorite in L.A.. Buckwheat galettes.
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Since Lone Jack mentioned Cajun food, here's some from The Ragin' Cajun in Redondo Beach:
We started with fried okra, which I will always order, if it is on the menu.
I had a fried oyster Po' Boy, and Kevin had gumbo.
Mardi Gras decorations - it's coming up again soon!
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We are as likely to eat breakfast as we are lunch, since we aim for between 11:30-12noon. However, we recently got back from the Wine Country, where we went specifically to eat at Solbar Restaurant @Solage Resort in Calistoga (Napa Valley). In fact, we visited to order chef Gustave Rios' Reuben, which only rotates on to the menu during winter months, so I think it fits here, LOL.
I had his housemade corned beef Reuben back in 2020 when Rios had recently taken over the kitchen. The pandemic/lockdown kept us away, but on our last two Napa trips since Fall 2022 we just did not have time to make it up to Calistoga, which is a fair drive north of the city of Napa.
So last week we made a special 3-day trip to just focus on Calistoga, and enjoyed Solbar so much we canceled a last-day reservation at another restaurant so we could return to Solbar a 2nd time for lunch.
Sadly, I am not a photographer of my meals, so I had to snitch this photo from Christine F. on Yelp, which she took 9/28/2020.
The Reuben looks a bit different in 2023. Chef Rios has switched to a high-quality Jewish rye with caraway seeds, much better than the marble rye (which I dislike, actually). The corned beef is still made in-house and is superb, without the excessive salt that mars so many versions. Sliced thin, piled generously, served hot and juicy on lightly buttered toasted rye. Aged Gruyere, not Swiss. Housemade Russian dressing.Most importantly, from our POV: properly braised sauerkraut. FYI we always order extra sauerkraut, too.
Spouse also ordered the same, and agreed with me the quality of the rye and the extra thin slicing of the corned beef made this rate as the best Reuben we've had in the last 30 yrs. The true Jewish delis are almost all gone in the SFBA and altho Reubens are currently making a comeback onto pub menus, most are just average.
The potato salad in the Solbar photo has been dropped for housemade chips. I sent a note via Resy that I thought the chips were sliced too thick; previously they were thin and crisp, but these were like eating corn tortilla chips so the texture contrast didn't quite work as well.
Lars