A Cuban appetizer sampler comprises two fried croquettes of chopped, breaded Virginia ham and two tasty cornmeal empanadas stuffed with ground pork and served with a cumin-scented tomato sauce.
Transfer bread to food processor fitted with steel blade and process to make finely chopped, fresh bread crumbs.
Migas with egg Sauté chopped stale bread with olive oil, mushrooms, onions and spinach.
Forget the oysters Rockefeller ($9.50) -- the spinach leaves slathered over gritty oysters bore little resemblance to the creamy, chopped spinach, bread crumbs, butter, vividly seasoned classic.
I was known thereafter, and not without affection, as the woman who chopped up bread and put it inside her chickens instead of leaving it on the platter, to wrap around the eggplant and sop up the sauce.
Besides, they take up space that could be devoted to arresting details like the meal system at the Manhattan House of Detention, better known as the Tombs, where Molineux would begin the day with a chop, bread, butter and coffee for 30 cents.
Get a sturdy chopping (bread) board.
Chop the bread finely into cubes or whatever shape you prefer.
After that would come more: lamb chops, breaded and fried and drizzled with lemon, their rib bones arcing elegantly away from the meat; simple roasted potatoes; Savoy cabbage sautéed into the warm, vegetal equivalent of a grandmother's hug.
Attention-getters from the menu were the juicy, tender pork chop, breaded, pan-fried and served with a soft, thin porcini mushroom polenta; smoky short ribs in a tangy barbecue sauce; a perfectly grilled sirloin steak with first-class onion rings and skins-on French fries, and sesame-crusted tuna presented rare with sautéed spinach and sticky rice.
