A recent Saturday lunch featured a new weekend menu, which offers all the usual brunch items along with the welcome quartet of casseroles, one a perfectly roasted brisket of veal with lemon and another all-vegetable creation combining such disparate elements as radishes, carrots, potatoes and artichokes.
There was a chili station offering healthy alternatives of turkey and vegetarian chili served in tartlett shells, and a table with jalapeno biscuits waiting to be filled to the brim with either roasted brisket of beef or one of the best pineapple glazed hams this side of the Mississippi.
2. Roast brisket, uncovered, for 20 minutes.
It was tender, kind of like roast brisket and not dissimilar to Texas BBQ.
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"Everybody in here looks like Dick Tracy or something," said a woman as she navigated between the ironworkers, cops and actors, and the steam table loaded with roast brisket, roast turkey and pot roast.
At JoeDough, a new sandwich shop in the East Village, the owners, Jill Schulster and Joe Dobias, the chef, are reinventing the oversize sandwich in one- and two-yard versions with ingredients like roast brisket and Cheddar, chopped chicken livers and bacon, and vegetarian parm.
The food is an interesting mixture of health-conscious – lots of sprouted grains, raw stuff and unusual tonics – and completely feel-good: I recently had a delicious pot-roast brisket with this really cool mash.
As with chuck pot roasts, brisket pot roasts are made by quickly browning the outside of the meat on a grill or in a pan or skillet, then slowly cooking the meat for hours in a pot containing water or beef stock and various seasonings and spices.
Staring at No. 534, I could picture the white lines of the butcher's chart dissecting his black hide: rump roast, flank steak, standing rib, brisket.
The books, like Mrs. Fishbein herself, remain enthusiastic, encouraging and uncritical, presenting ambitious recipes like pineapple-coconut truffles and salmon tartare with undemanding ones like brisket roasted in barbecue sauce and ketchup and baked chicken stuffed with boxed rice pilaf and apricot jam.
