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Bob Law's Seafood Cafe

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  • pitu lillet
    pitu lillet
    apollonia666 wrote: [quote=pitu lillet]I resorted to buttermilk-soaking and actually frying a chicken a couple months ago.
    It was an emergency.
    You should try making my late Arkansas mama's fried chicken sometime: Soak the chicken pieces in buttermilk, then dredge in a mixture of half flour and half instant mashed potato flakes, with a little pepper, paprika, and seasoned salt, and fry it up. I know the mashed potato flakes thing sounds weird, but it makes the most wonderfully crispy coating. Try it, trust me!

    I wonder if Fairway sells mashed potato flakes . . .
    in the meantime, a couple tablespoons of corn starch in the dredging flour works great for crispitude.
  • prusik
    prusik

    Subject: Mashed Potato Flakes

    pitu lillet wrote: I wonder if Fairway sells mashed potato flakes . . .
    in the meantime, a couple tablespoons of corn starch in the dredging flour works great for crispitude.
    Isn't that just your generic instant mashed potato in a box stuff, like Hungry Jack? Or are we talking something more esoteric? Maybe Fairway does heirloom varieties like instant Purple Peruvian or Russian Banana? 8)
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia

    Subject: Re: Mashed Potato Flakes

    prusik wrote: [quote=pitu lillet]I wonder if Fairway sells mashed potato flakes . . .
    in the meantime, a couple tablespoons of corn starch in the dredging flour works great for crispitude.
    Isn't that just your generic instant mashed potato in a box stuff, like Hungry Jack? Or are we talking something more esoteric? Maybe Fairway does heirloom varieties like instant Purple Peruvian or Russian Banana? 8)

    in a pinch, hungry jack from the bodega made extra soupy with a quarter stick of salted organic butter is the best thing evar.
  • capt. planet
    capt. planet

    Subject: Re: Bob Law, Great Food, Great Speaker

    pitu lillet wrote: [quote=greg]Yes, I'm a realtor, and also member of Community Board 8, the Park Slope Methodist Social Action Committee, the Park Slope Food Coop where I'm on the GMO Shelf Labeling Committee, the Crown Heights North Assoc. and editor of a newsletter for the North American Coalition for Christianity and Ecology, which was why I was in Penn. at the conference, as NACCE sponsored.
    glad to hear it
    greg wrote: Are you suggesting that being a realor is unethical?
    yup. I'd say that is one of many self-serving ways to support oneself. Sure we all gotta pay the rent/mortgage, but I hope you take as hard a look at red-lining and predatory lending practices and other property oriented issues, since that is your chosen field.

    I share your concern about ethics and food, but I'm really tired of your tirades on this board. IMHO you are embodying the crappy stereotype of droning Coop member.

    Yes, I love the Coop!

    Yes, I love the Coop and find much of the politics there very tedious. How Joe Holtz put up with 30 years of that stuff is beyond me.

    J'm sorry if I strike you as "preachy" but I happen to believe that we're in for heavy sledding, and that we'd better prepare. Nobody wants to hear this and our media does it's best to keep it from us, but when it happens, all of the media rationalizations are not going to mean a damn.

    For instance, when townships get hip and won't allow factory farms, what will happen to meat prices? When gas hits $6 a gallon, what will happen to food prices? Will we be trucking vegetables from California?

    If you saw An Inconvenient Truth, think about. What will 200 million refugees driven from their homes by flooding mean to our quality of life?
  • withachaser
    withachaser

    Subject: Re: Mashed Potato Flakes

    alafairnadia wrote: [quote=prusik][quote=pitu lillet]I wonder if Fairway sells mashed potato flakes . . .
    in the meantime, a couple tablespoons of corn starch in the dredging flour works great for crispitude.
    Isn't that just your generic instant mashed potato in a box stuff, like Hungry Jack? Or are we talking something more esoteric? Maybe Fairway does heirloom varieties like instant Purple Peruvian or Russian Banana? 8)

    in a pinch, hungry jack from the bodega made extra soupy with a quarter stick of salted organic butter is the best thing evar.

    i'm right with you. 'cept, a quarter stick of plugra butter, it's either swiss or danish and, best feature, is available at the vandy associated. i usually dump in some dried onion flakes and milk or half and half. shit can soak up a motherlode of alcohol and tastes damn good, to boot!!!
  • carnivore
    carnivore

    Subject: Re: Mashed Potato Flakes

    withachaser wrote: i'm right with you. 'cept, a quarter stick of plugra butter, it's either swiss or danish and, best feature, is available at the vandy associated.
    I think Plugra is actually a "European style" American-made butter. European-style means less water and more fat (hence the name).
  • withachaser
    withachaser

    Subject: Re: Mashed Potato Flakes

    Carnivore wrote: [quote=withachaser]i'm right with you. 'cept, a quarter stick of plugra butter, it's either swiss or danish and, best feature, is available at the vandy associated.
    I think Plugra is actually a "European style" American-made butter. European-style means less water and more fat (hence the name).

    thanks, carnivore. i hadn't looked into this subtlelty. obviously, i'm all about that high fat content :lol: maybe i'll try my mashed potato flakes with the european butters i see at the also=cpnvenient nature land!!!! (they're also really good with goat cheese, embarrassed to say)
  • drano
    drano

    Subject: Re: Bob Law, Great Food, Great Speaker

    Carnivore wrote: Corcoran is like the Monsanto of the realty world. :twisted:
    Their biggest crime was that Rosemary Clooney commercial they ran non-stop a few years back. Watching - or rather, hearing - that thing 12 times a day was tough on my nerves.
  • apollonia666
    apollonia666
    By the way, I went to Bob Law's with Unterberg and a friend from Manhattan on Saturday night for my birthday, and it was SO freaking good. All the seafood nicely seasoned (all fried, though -- this may not be the healthiest joint out there), the mac 'n' cheese was SUPER cheesy, and their lemonade is delicious. We also split a slice of their red velvet cake. Heaven.

    Seems like they do a lot more carryout than sit-down dining, probably because it's tiny -- there are only four or five tables and only one other one was taken up while we were there, but lots of folks came in and picked up orders.

    Anyway, two thumbs up! Especially the crabcakes. Holy cow.
  • brookfetish
    brookfetish
    I finally had food from here last night.

    Smothered chicken....very good. The meat was falling off the bone.

    My sides were mac & cheese (not too shabby) and stewed tomatoes and ocra (only got two tomatoes???...but still decent).

    All in all, not too bad.
  • apollonia666
    apollonia666
    YUM.

    By the way, I've also learned that they deliver. Danger! Danger!
  • brookfetish
    brookfetish
    apollonia666 wrote: YUM.

    By the way, I've also learned that they deliver. Danger! Danger!
    Yup - mine was delivered :!:
  • doctorj
    doctorj

    Subject: Re: Bob Law's Seafood Cafe

    apollonia666 wrote: It's on Vanderbilt. Anyone ever been? Any reviews?
    Breakfasted there last weekend because the Usual still wasn't open. Quite reasonable I thought; tasty crab cakes and a healthy serve of salad. Housespouse wasn't too rapt with the cinnamon-apple pancakes though. Might do it again sometime.
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