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Salty Saturday 2021

Aug10

Salty Saturday is the traditional family bagel and lox brunch we do on the Saturday after ThanksGavin.

For the last couple of years it’s been hosted at my cousin Matt’s house. This year (2021), it’s a touch more subdued than usual due to cooking fatigue, the pandemic, etc.

In his sunny dining room.

Across the way is the kids table.

The more restrained spread this year.

Philadelphia bagels.

Onions.

Lox.

Cheese.

Herbs.

Snacks, cucumbers etc.

Tomatoes, capers, cream cheese, whitefish salad, olives.

Freshly made goat cheese fritata.

And here is my plate — delicious but it did induce ridicule for including 4 full bagel halves!

To combat the salt, I also tried a strategy of pounding a cold press coffee, which seemed to work (a bit). Then we got in the car and drove off to New York!

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Made by my young cousin Audrey from my Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe.

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Salty Saturday 2019

Jan24

Salty Saturday is the traditional family bagel and lox brunch we do on the Saturday after ThanksGavin.

For the last couple of years it’s been hosted at my cousin Matt’s house. This year (2019), it’s a touch more subdued than usual due to cooking fatigue.

Prep work in the kitchen.

In his sunny dining room.

Across the way is the kids table.

And a look at the spread.

As usual matt whips up a couple frittatas.

Olives to start.

Gratuitous zoom.

Several kinds of cream-cheese.

Whitefish salad — my salt favorite.

Pickled herring.

Veggies and leftover muhammara.

Onions, I guess, are feeling left out.

And here is my plate — delicious but it did induce ridicule for including 4 full bagel halves!

My mom’s chocolate chip banana bread.

To combat the salt, I also tried a strategy of pounding a cold press coffee, which seemed to work (a bit). Then we got in the car and drove off to New York!

See here for more ThanksGavin posts.

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Salty Saturday 2018

Jan16

Salty Saturday is the traditional family bagel and lox brunch we do on the Saturday after ThanksGavin.

For the last couple of years it’s been hosted at my cousin Matt’s house.

Prep work in the kitchen.

In his sunny dining room.

Across the way is the kids table.

And a look at the spread.

Olives.

Cucumbers and tomatoes as condiments.

Cucumbers and onions — looking pretty.

Capers and chives.

I like my cream-cheese with chives in it.

Muenster and Swiss. Always makes me think of the Muenster Rebellion but I love it still.

Two kinds of whitefish salad. Chunky smoked.

And creamy whitefish salad (lots of mayo). I actually like this one better.

Two kinds of lox, regular and pastrami lox — which I now love. Low salt too considering.

Pickled herring.

Roasted beets.

Matt made a frittata too.

And here is my plate — delicious but it did induce ridicule for including 4 full bagel halves!

To combat the salt, I also tried a strategy of pounding a cold press coffee, which seemed to work.

See here for more ThanksGavin posts.

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Salty Saturday 2017

Jan05

Salty Saturday is the traditional family bagel and lox brunch we do on the Saturday after ThanksGavin.

For the last couple of years it’s been hosted at my cousin Matt’s house.

In his sunny dining room.

Across the way is the kids table.

And a look at the spread.

Some leftover cheeses from the night before.

Bagel cheeses, like the all important Muenster – let’s hope it’s not feeling rebellious.

Cream cheeses, red onion, and capers.

Condiments.

sliced hard boiled egg.

Philadelphia lox is way better on average than LA lox — except Wexler’s.

Whitefish salad, my particular favorite salt bomb.

Whitefish without the mayo.

Heartburn central: pickled herring.And a bit of fruit to finish.

I also tried a strategy of combatting the salt buzz with a triple shot of espresso, seemed to work.

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ThanksGavin 2015 – Salty Saturday

Dec09

Part of the tradition for the ThanksGavin weekend of gluttony is a Saturday deli brunch. As we celebrate in Philadelphia, we have access to all sorts of great deli and the like.

After several nights of wine drinking, Saturday brunch is all soft stuff.

Below are all the items used to assemble one’s custom bagel sandwich.

Olives.

Capers.

Butter.

Regular (Philadelphia) cream cheese.

Chive cream cheese.

Swiss and munster cheese.

Cucumbers and Motomara tomatoes.

Onions.

Lox. This nova lox was soft, delicious, and not all that salty. We really can’t get lox this good in California.

Chunky whitefish salad. Love it!

Pickled herring. I like this sweet fishy stuff, although it isn’t to everyone’s taste.

Bagels and bread.

Matt whipped up two frittatas, a spinach on the left and a smoked poblano pepper and goat cheese on the right.

Pancakes for the kids.

On the left, our host Matt is brewing cappuccino in the kitchen.

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Salty Saturday 2014

Dec06

Part of the tradition for the ThanksGavin weekend of gluttony is a Saturday deli brunch. As we celebrate in Philadelphia, we have access to all sorts of great deli and the like.

For the second year in a row, the location is the house of my cousin Matt and his wife Andrea. They’ve picked up a lot of the load, having also tackled the Friday Night Feast.