cheese please

Somewhat pedestrian yet still tasty cheese (goat, smoked gouda, double cream brie, Mimolette, something Chilean) and fruit board. I think one of my favorite things were the rosemary nuts+cranberries from Trader Joe's.

Porkalicious v2

Splurged on a Berkshire pork butt from Meadow Run Farm via Reading Terminal Market's Fair Food Farmstand that took 2+ days to defrost in my fridge.

Salt & pepper on the pork for a few hours, then browned on all sides. Sauteed some onions, 2 carrots, then added 1 c. chicken broth, 2 green serrano peppers, some peppercorns, crushed allspice, lightly toasted cumin, cloves in a teaball, juice+zest from 1 giant orange, dropped the orange in for fun, braised for 300 degrees for 3hrs uncovered and another 2 hrs uncovered, chopped up the roast into some giant cubes to break it up. Once a lot of the braising liquid evaporates, the pork starts to fry in its own fat. SIZZLE.

Served with an excess of guacamole (five avocados is apparently too much for 4 ppl), salsas from Prin, sour cream, tortillas and unfortunately no air conditioning (now installed!). Also a pineapple that I made Katherine cut up. Starter of cheese crisps (browned cheese).

Tria

Tria mainly does little bites, which I think is why I never go there (at least the branch closest to me) because it is essentially next door to DiBruno Brothers (basically a fancy kingdom of cheese) and I know that I could be spending the same amount of money for triple or quadruple the amount of cheesiness. It feels like poor value for my money, regardless of how tasty those bites are. Also it feels like a scene to be seen in, which is not my kind of atmosphere. But then again, sometimes other ppl want to go and I can be lazy. I forget which cheeses below but the melty one was not an Epoisse.

Brie de Nangis with Allagash Cherries

Roasted beets w/ ricotta

large cheese fries @Reading Terminal

From Barb & Suzy's, the Amish place that does the fried veggies and has the hot dogs. If you go, the Amish are only at RTM Wed through Sat.
The fries weren't as crispy as I would have liked; the bacon was delicious.