#hard roll

"After hours in the oven the roast fell apart, shredding easily into flavorful, aromatic strands of meat, coated with fat and gelatin, sweet and pungent from garlic and fennel." Feeding a Crowd: the Iron Range's Porketta

The Iron Range is a term used to collectively refer to a series of iron mining areas around Northeastern Minnesota. There are 4 main deposits, discovered in the late 19th Century and mined out over the course of the 20th. In our previous piece discussing the Iron Range, a 2022 writeup of the regional sandwiches called “South Americans,” we noted that during the period from roughly 1890 to 1930,…

"It tastes brightly of oranges and lemons and strong wine and warm spices, like Portuguese Sangria in meat form, but with garlic." Caçoila: Portuguese Pork in a Massachusetts Bun

New England doesn’t seem like the type of place Portuguese immigrants would gravitate towards. The climate, with hot humid summers and cold, brutal winters, is nothing like the mild, subtropical near-Mediterranean climate of Portugal. Yet the highest concentration of Portuguese-Americans in these United States exists in the greater Boston area, in Massachusetts and Rhode Island towns like New…

Hard Roll Monte Cristo.

Jersey style breakfast. Taylor ham and cheese on a hard roll with a side of fries. - Taken with iPhone and edited in VSCOcam. 

It was my birthday the other day, and I spent it with a friend.

Here's a good first "weird" one.