In this blog, I'll be writing about road food around the country, restaurants I work at along our trip , and things I cook inside and outside our camper.
I have three main goals for this trip regarding food.
1) Eat some very good true American food, such as different styles of barbecue, Cajun/Creole and "California cuisine"
2) Work at some excellent restaurants, including one really good BBQ place
3) Cook good food for Lily and myself
Our first stop for road food (and only stop so far) was a pizza place in Acton, Ma called Sorrento's Pizza. They make excellent wood-burning brick oven pizza. We both got slices topped with tri-colored tortellini, pesto, and mozzarella. I must say it's probably one of the ten best slices of pizza I've had in my life. Pasta on pizza is great - our friends Keith and Sara brought us to another Sorrento's near New City, NY (these two aren't connected) a couple times where they served penne a'la vodka pizza, which even more weighty on the delicious scale.
A little while before we left for our trip, Lily and I planted basil, oregano, marjoram, chives, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme in three small windowsill-type planters. We fitted the planters with hooks to rest on our ladder outside for sunlight, and when we are driving we stow them in the shower. It's so nice to have herbs ready at our disposal whenever we want them. We'll be cooking for ourselves a lot on this trip, and herbs are best eaten right after you pick them. Some of the herbs are already growing like crazy. Pictures will come soon.
Yesterday we bought half a whole ribeye at a grocery store for 54 bucks. Normally a 16 ounce portion of this is 40-50 bucks at a nice steakhouse. This 7 pounds of ribeye, at around $7.50/lb. Normally we won't be able to afford $7.50/lb for our protein on this trip, but hey, it's the 4th of July and in my mind there are three ways to celebrate: drink, blow stuff up, and grill steak. We brought a cryovac machine on the road with us so we can get whole chickens, ducks and small primal cuts of meat, butcher them, cryovac them, and store them in the fridge or freezer. This will in turn save us a whole lot of money, and we'll always be able to reach in the fridge or freezer for two portions of protein whenever we want without too much risk of anything going bad. We cryovac-ed 3 of the 4 huge steaks and froze them for later (we ate the last one with some herbed roasted potatoes and it was great).
-Wax
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Are you sure the two Sorrento's aren't connected? The guys at the place in Pearl River told us they had another one near Boston once, but we never found it...
Sounds like you guys are off to a great start! Good luck!
~Sara
I dont think so. They do have two other locations, but all in Mass.
http://sorrentospizzerias.com/
Sorrento is the name of a city in Campania, Italy. That's probably why it is a relatively common name for a good Italian restaurant or pizza place.
Many thanks for the Blogs...a pleasure to read. Can't wait for pictures!
Mmmm Ben I should not have started reading your food blog on a night stuck at work and hungry! I'm already dreaming about the yummy places I'm going to take you when you descend upon DC...can't wait to see you guys!
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