La Cuisine Grossmanne

I sometimes write about produce we get from my friend Gary Grossman. When he's not growing truckloads of mizuna or selling cucumbers to 5 and 10 he has another version of haute cuisine, which he describes below:

One of the more perplexing problem faced by the modern gourmand is what to do with those left-over fast food meals that your kids never seem to consume completely. Ah yes, our kids, no matter how many beautiful presentations of farm fresh veggies and organic meats you serve them they always seem to prefer chicken fingers and fries from the local deep-fry stand. Today I came up with a delightful solution for fast-food left-overs, when the daughter of well-known food blogger Charles Platter visited my younger daughter Anna. Yes, serve them to the daughter of a food blogger – it is a worthy revenge for all of those healthy meals that my daughter had eaten at his house. Well the secret of re-serving fast food is to prevent any oxidation while it’s in the fridge. So we made sure that the fries and chicken fingers were tightly wrapped in plastic wrap. We then reheated them in our vintage 1980 toaster oven that has a wonderful patina of old oil and let me tell you, the girls were squirming in their seats in anticipation. No need to be fancy here, we just served the lunch up on a bed of aluminum foil placed over the toaster oven tray, and before we knew it, those plates were clean. Of course the meal required sauce de tomate, which is not pictured due to copyright issues. Mangez-bien mes enfants. Gary Grossman