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Caviar! Who knew?

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What I want to know is why was a thrifty New Hampshirite being so cavalier with caviar?

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There was a time web it was cheap!

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I suppose everything's been cheap at one point and, yes Sean, I include myself in that statement.

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But never trashy

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Bless you for that.

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Divine Russian dressing. Adjusting the amount of ingredients to taste, adding a few spoons of freshly grated horseradish-no mild Mrs Gold’s for me-and you have an extra special “special” sauce.

Suggest using a rasp to finely grate onion.

Spoon generously on Iceberg and Romaine, dress shrimp cocktail, burgers and sliders, roast beef and rye bread sandwiches.

Feel better, Michael. Up for a burger good wishes. 🇺🇸🇷🇺

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You're the 2nd person to mention shrimp cocktail and now that's all I want. My friend Craig made a fantastic horseradish sauce for our roast beef and it made me wonder why I'd been ignoring that poor root for so long. Intrigued about adding it to a burger!

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Aw, feel better Michael.

And for the record, as a young teen girl, I thought Reuben Kincaid was one of the creepiest men I have ever seen.

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Yet who could have possibly known that Danny would wind up the creepiest of all…

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"Flavor agents" needs to enter the common cooking vernacular, STAT!

In other news, TIL that Russian dressing, properly made, includes horseradish, a root vegetable of which I am very fond. Pretty sure the Russian dressing my mom bought at the local IGA contained not even a hint of horseradish. My fine-tuned palate would've detected it.

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I think “flavor agents” is a term relegated to American food labs. Our Canadian friends would utilize “flavour agents/agents aromatisants”, of course.

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What will those wacky Canadians think of next?

P.S. I stand in full solidarity/solidarité with/avec our Canadian friends!

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I have always had a sentimental weakness for Canadians.

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Good people!

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Sorry but... I think you're even funnier when you're sick.

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So drugs DO spark creativity!

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Was this in question?

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Merely feigning innocent surprise.

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Worth it for the "Mucus & Weltschmerz" all by itself. But isn't there just a hint of fine-diced pickle in this? I recall walking up to a open-air boiling pot and counter, getting a Louie dressing (that was essentially the same as this) on a 1/2 lb. of fresh picked Dungeness and some shreds of iceberg, for about $5. A ridiculous price for the SF Fisherman's Wharf tourist crowd in the 60s.

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I'm very happy you liked the "M & W" bit. If I'd had pickles on hand to add, I might have done it. Texturally, they'd be a decent way to mimic the texture of caviar (though not quite)? They'd make a nice addition anyhow and it's a blurry line between Russian, French, Louie, and maybe even Catalina(!) dressings. And $5 could have bought you a big, fat, juicy steak in the 1960s...

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Hot Reuben Kincaid. I’m sick, too, Michael, but now I have hope.

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Sometimes hope and the Partridge Family is all we have to cling to.

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I had indeed forgotten how devilishly sexy Reuben Kincaid was.

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Nothing sexier than a consistently put upon man.

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File away for next time: St. Elmo Very Spicy Cocktail Sauce

If you haven't had it, it packs a heavy wasabi-like punch. Sort of a shrimp cocktail tradition in our family during the holidays... put it out with no warning to guests and lie in wait.

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I like this idea. Also, I think the shrimp cocktail needs a big comeback 

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Agree. Deserves to be more than part of the tiara tier trio to a seafood tower.

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Now all I want is a crown of shrimp regal an heavy enough to open Parliament.

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I could think of a use for a gallon of Russian dressing, but alas my teenage years are past

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I won't even dare to ask (as much as I would like to).

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