Food: Tasty Tidbits

After last week’s entry on Thanksgiving dinner deals we received more offers from restaurants to pass along; plus we wanted to share some cool finds of our own.

Morton's carrot cake.

The home of the “angry” lobster,  and pretzel coated crab cakes is putting out a great turkey day feast! David Burke’s Fromagerie (www.fromagerierestaurant.com) in Rumson is offering a three course, prix fixed menu ($59 per person). Besides the roasted organic turkey, the restaurant offers a 40 day dry aged Kentucky rib eye steak, or Colorado rack of lamb, among others. The children’s menu is $22.

On LBI,  our pick is The Gables (www.gableslbi.com/) with a family-style traditional Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings for $49.95 per person. There is a separate children’s menu available.

Celebrity Chef Melody McGinley Whitelaw sent over her Thanksgiving menu designed to feed 8 guests. Whitelaw, who owns Morristown’s Main Event By Melody and Kid’s Green Kitchen (973-326-9461) will make you a rosemary roasted turkey, cranberry raspberry mousse, veggie stuffing, and all kinds of sides and desert pies for $150.

More foodie tidbits:

Morton’s Steakhouse (www.mortons.com) is a carnivore’s paradise. But on a recent visit to the Hackensack restaurant, the carrot cake threatened to displace the steak as a signature specialty.

No ordinary carrot cake, we found out that Morton’s recipe actually comes from Marianne Artinian, mother of one of the chain’s senior executives.  We’re not the only ones who loved it… here’s the recipe on a foodie website: http://archive.supermarketguru.com/page.cfm/39417

Reaction to last week’s article touting the new Corrado’s (www.corradosmarket.com/) in Wayne: we got pushback from a Trader Joe’s loyalist in the Madison area who called her favorite supermarket “a real buzz. in this area.”

“Best of all, you can easily get to know the staff, they know their products, and you can be out of there in 15 minutes. They even unload the cart for you,“ she wrote.

Chocolatier extraordinaire Wendy Taffet (www.enjouchocolat.com/) e-mailed a sample of a speech she was asked to give recently on the health effects of chocolate.

“Chocolate is the new red wine, “ she wrote.  “Did you know that a 1 1/2 oz. bar of dark chocolate contains twice the amount of antioxidants as a glass of red wine so now you can have your chocolate….and eat it too!!”

We’ll definitely drink (and eat) to that.  Send us your favorite En Jay food suggestions by clicking on the “Write The Editor” link below.

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