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| salt and egg white encasement |
That weekend that we spent on Bald Head Island off the Carolina coast back when there was a TWA and it owned the Travel Channel and Arthur Frommer was the star we watched weekend with Bernie get filmed..Andrew McCarthy and others were clearly part of a low budget flop...that became a sleeper cult hit. And who can get that crazy sick dead flopping body treated as a prop after death out of their minds...oh its NOT FUNNY...no it is.
But now we turn to Daniel, recently encamped with a grand new job and car near the Pike Market and he conjures the kind of adventure that begins at the equally iconic Pike Market, where tossing large fish is as essential to Seattle's image as its needle or snow peaked mountain or the San Juan Islands as the empire state or statue of liberty is to ours.
Daniel obtains a salmon fresh from Alaska..it is tossed into a box and then his arms and then he goes to the airport and discusses what i assume wasn't more than a business class seat for his salmon...there are some logistical snags but the two arrive and the required preparation ingredients are obtained on the way from JFK and the prep begins. Mom Susan offers up a gazillion eggs for the salt packing and fresh Indian fenugreek for the sauce and alot of oranges lemons and limes(prettier than when crushed)for the enlisted citrus man to slice and kosher salt in the kind of quantity that could have paved the flat track for a land speed record.
There was fresh grown tarragon...still growing in November in lush Bklyn...and the visitor was unboxed......clearly this dead fish was the gourmet prop to be named BERNIE...our weekend centerpiece
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| Recreating the couch scene from the Weekend at Bernies |
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| No really this is how it was when I hooked it...gene splicing and fresh from the waters off silicon valley |
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| Citrus man . |
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| Bernie and new friend smile for the blog |
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| decapitation caption |
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| Daniel embrace his vision |
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| The service is over..just a skeletal memory remains and a lingering taste of the most memorable salmon. |
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| Fenugree sauce |
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| Breaking away the salt crust |
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| Next time we build a bigger oven so Bernie could keep his head |
...soon to be encrusted in a baked salt rock and served to more delight than the Bald Head Island revelers.
pork buns and the chive dumplings with corn and the fried crab and the vegi spring rolls in the shape of trees. Next time pastrami egg rolls...Bravo Shoenfeld and Charderow.
15st and 8 ave..before the Joyce recovering Danny and good friend Deborah and some of their friends ate before they watched dance and ate so fast that these were the only photos I got. However...they do attest to our hunger and delight with the branzino and chicken rollatine and the ravioli. Nice place.
