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Peggy Robinson's avatar

Frecker Little Gems! We just bought a vintage cast iron griddle and we are on a bender! It’s huge! I’ve been nodding knowingly!

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

A cast iron bender sounds great! Keep nodding Peggy R.

Rob Tourtelot's avatar

I stopped off at the farmstand and bought some little gems just because of this piece. I love my Lodge cast iron pan more than is reasonable. Excited to give this a whirl. Love your food writing, as always.

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Farmstand stopping is never bad. Cast iron inspires loyalty-- Hope it you dig the gems RT.

Angela Cummings's avatar

You have convinced me. I’ll do it, Tommy.

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

I was thinking the other day where's Angela C been? And then there you were, ready to sear. Groovy.

Rona Maynard's avatar

My table is not complete without Maldon salt. And you just inspired me to buy a better class of olive oil for drizzling on roasted vegetables, etc.

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Rona. Here's a link to my olive oil dealers. I buy this Quatriociocchi or Mandranova 5l at a time. It's a little pricey but in that amount reasonable. I saw there was a real good Greek one called Entelia that was really reasonable at 5l. I know this is pretty specific but what do we ever get from being general.

https://oliveoillovers.com/?srsltid=AfmBOop3tAuApSTkI_Yd_wGU5G1tvci1TRodSvcbrTftpcwim2Pio9Of

Anna Schott's avatar

I don’t want to do it, but I will. Lettuce hope it all goes down smoothly.

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Fuck, I'm a lettuce bully! Do it or don't but please keep that violin handy for the soundtrack, my soulful and slightly twisted punster.

Kelly L's avatar

Going to try this!

Nina S Hiken's avatar

Another gem, Tommy!

Lettuce make everything sexy.

You leaf me scorched.

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

And you ice my berg but to the good.

Nina S Hiken's avatar

We're deep in the salad daze, dressing on the side.

Eleanor Anstruther's avatar

What do you have them with?

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Anything. They're just good and fun to eat. But with meat their nice or lentils or... You'll know what to do 'em, of this I am sure. And glad you like my scattered cookbook.

Eleanor Anstruther's avatar

It’s my favourite cookbook

Kimberly Warner's avatar

Brilliant! I like grilled radicchio too. That bitter + salt really gets my mouth a’drooling. Now please start a knife sharpening biz and use that tagline, “Xanax in reverse.”

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Kimberly, I'm gonna get myself a wetstone and put out a sign.

Adam Nathan's avatar

Be careful you don’t end up with an entirely new gig here.

That said, when do you do the sharpen your Kurosawa blades post? Clueless in Brooklyn.

Salt? Salt I know. I spilled that exact salt all over the counter about three days ago.

Lettuce? 🥬 Have not cooked yet, but I’m game.

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Give it a whirl when you take a break from your next David Copperfield riff or medieval dungeon drama. I like the Samurai idea though. If you beat me to the punch I won't hold a grudge.

Renee Missel's avatar

I love this. Will follow your lead and get all ingredients and try. Something new to discover. Thank you, Maestro.

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

You are welcome dear comrade.

Josephine Spilka's avatar

OMG, I love braised lettuce, pretty much any kind, but my favorite way is a little broth and lemon zest with an olive oil finish. And you definitely win for Culinary Lunatic in Charge. I'm the Culinary Dancing Delight myself...

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

I always had you pegged for CDD

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

A Brief visceral exhale.

SuzyQ's avatar

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this! Bon App! 📖🥬👌✨

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Wonderful. Hope the jazz is flowing.