All too many items on the overly large, confusing menu were more fusion than pure Thai -- grilled pumpkin chicken breast, lobster spring salad and seared tuna, for example.
Remove from oven and stir in pumpkin, chicken broth, water, lentils and lemon juice.
Examples of recipes that fit the caveman diet include: broccoli and bacon salad, egg and capsicum salad, pumpkin chicken curry, white fish with macadamia salsa, pancakes made using ground nuts in place of flour, apple glazed turkey breast, shrimp curry, etc. Look for recipes that call for fully natural ingredients to make breads, cakes, and other baked items.
Stir in the pumpkin and chicken stock after the onions have shown a slight brown.
WHAT WE LIKE Chop chop salad, lentil soup, carrot-ginger soup, roasted onion and mushroom soup, Popeye tortellini soup; sweet potato fries, mashed sweet potatoes, waffle fries; pumpkin-seed chicken, balsamic chicken, pork chop; apple pie, pecan pie, gelatos.
Equally lovely, and presented in more familiar form, are pumpkin-and-chicken soup, rich with broccoli rabe, potato and, of course, bacon and chorizo; and tender, earthy quail wrapped in bacon and served with juicy quince.
I had pumpkin gnocchi, spicy chicken in a moscatel sauce and crema catalana with baked apple.
WHAT WE LIKE Crispy okra, beef larb, lemongrass shrimp, cauliflower Manchurian; shrimp Manchurian, duck choo chee, tamarind shrimp, pad Thai, drunken noodles, mee goring, basil tofu mushrooms, red curry with chicken; pumpkin Thai custard.
Other dishes include vegetarian flautas, with cheese, grilled peppers, onions and tomato, served with rice and beans, salad and sour cream; a spicy pumpkin sauce with chicken or pork; steak in a spicy sauce; a variety of tacos, like Mexican sausage, beef tongue, and beef tripe, as well as chicken, pork and steak; and shrimp in garlic sauce.
Early in the season, at the Mexican stand, El Verano Taquería, Floyd Cardoz, the executive chef of Tabla in Manhattan, who said he is a "huge Mets fan," expects to be on hand frequently, checking on his soft tacos, with pork carnitas, skirt steak or pumpkin seed and chicken mole ($7.25 each).
We survived the pumpkin spice fried chicken doughnut burger.
