Dinner
I’m recovering from a close encounter with modern dentistry, and I forgot to marinate the meat for a carne asada last night. I went surfing for things to do with what I had on hand. Here’s what I ended up doing, from the bottom up:
- large slice of toasted brioche (excess from brunch French toast)
- two slices of lox (from the brunch I’d planned, but my poor teeth weren’t up to bagels)
- six spears of grilled asparagus
- two poached eggs
- a sauce of 2T mayonnaise, juice of 1 lemon, a dollop of good mustard, a slug or two of olive oil, salt and pepper
I was leery of that sauce, which pretty obviously assumes that the site’s audience isn’t up to Hollandaise. But Hollandaise is notorious for sensing weakness, and I guess in this situations I myself wasn't up to Hollandaise, or even to making my own mayonnaise. No worries, it was all very tasty indeed.