Huevos rancheros @ the CookRoom

Huevos rancheros.. not your comida tipica de Long Island. Not where I come from anyway. Feeling the urge for something a little out of the norm, tried out the hr special at the CookRoom in Middle Island, NY. the CookRoom is a nostalgic throwback sort of diner along Middle Country Road (route 25) with counter service and about ten small booths. They are CASH only. The menu is typical diner food with a twist. They always have a variety of specials from orange pancakes with pecans to southern style biscuits & gravy to specials such as huevos rancheros. Check out these beautiful corn tortillas with eggs over medium, black beans, pico de gallo, slice of avocado and a link of chorizo. Don't forget the American addition: an enormous side of hash browned potatoes. Oh yes. A little hot sauce takes it right where it belongs.

Blond Restaurant, Long Island

Frisée is the spiky disagreeable pale green stuff that comes in many mixed salads. I tend to pick it out of my salad or avoid it altogether. Blond makes an entire appetizer out of it. Check out the frisée salad with Canadian bacon, pecan, cheese (maybe gouda) and apple slivers with a homemade vinaigrette and a dribble of balsamic vinegar. Oh yes, please!

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Hunger.  We all feel hungry, probably more often than we'd choose.  Oh those biological urges.  We can only suppress them so long until we succumb.  May as well make it as PLEASANT as possible.  Fill your body with fuel but make it taste damn good.  However, I'm not a good cook.  There are a few passable dishes I can pull off with a touch of divine grace.  Otherwise, I've come to accept I'm simply not that good at cooking.  I certainly don't want to spend hours going from Wild by Nature to Uncle Guiseppe's to your local super mega market hunting down the elusive items I need. Screw it.. let's do a little research and find some places where actually skilled folks make great food.  And let's take pictures and reminisce about it.