Episode 41: Spa Slathers, Cash Flirts, Mr X Talks Hair and Cruz Leaves with Leftovers

By CRUZ | EDITOR in CHIEF
Published: July 5th , 2011
Welcome to our first July episode of SLAW Weekly, where 4 of us spice up our office lunch once a week, most weeks. Its Spa Day and based on texts and e-mails received from Spa yesterday, i knew what was coming our way.  Well, it was that and much more.  Slaw started on time, and by the time I reached SLAW table, everything was setup nicely. 
Spa brought:
MAIN COURSE: Grass Fed Boneless Rib-eye marianated in Slatherin Sauce (Original)
CHEESE: Prairie Breeze Cheddar
SALAD: Tossed Salad with Tomato, Red Onion, Cucumber, Mushrooms, Dried Cranberries, and Sliced Almonds.
DESSERT: Red and Blue Cookies (in honor of 4th of July)
Here is what I saw when i walked in.  Lunch ready!

Lunch was DELICIOUS and HEALTHY.  Less on carbs and high on protein and taste (ignore those cookies for now). Now here is why lunch was delicious.  First of all everything was hand selected or prepared by Spa.  She put alot of thought into it.  Starting with sauce for the rib-eye.  It was Slatherin Sauce  and like they say Slather it on. http://slatheriton.com/

Second, Spa prepared the steak on 4th of July.  She went to her local butcher in Brooklyn and consulted on meat. Once home, she prepped the meat and took pictures (posted on this blog yesterday).  After hours of cook time, Rib-Eye was ready to be sliced up.  To ensure perfection she even ate some of it last night. Now that's some dedication.   

On to Cheese.  The Prairie Breeze Cheedar was delicious. Milton Creamery gets two thumbs up from Team SLAW.

Besides food, our in-house DJ Cash mixed up our office lunch with some 80's tunes.  Today's song was Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime) by The Flirts. Link: http://youtu.be/Kohs_nlQzpM

So there we have it.  An office lunch with great food, good music, company and the best part, Spa loved doing all the prep and cooking.  Although if I somewhat quote Cash, this SLAW would be perfect if there was atleast one more cookie each and a cup of coffee.  Maybe next time Cash.

Almost forgot, Mr X did describe how Mrs Cash did her hair back in the 80's (this while we watched the Flirts sing JukeBox).  Front straight up (thinking gel) and back buzz cut. And yes yes, I as always happily took away the leftovers as my pre-dinner snack.  Good stuff.

Episode 39: Spa in Morocco, Cash Cherry-Pick Cherries, Mr X Bites a Mango.

By CRUZ | EDITOR in CHIEF
Published: June 15th , 2011

Welcome to Episode 39. The episode that broke No Rice or Pasta rule quietly. It was my turn and I kept it the usual with a Beef Biryani (white rice, potatoes, spices, plum pits) with cucumber Yogurt dressing, For sweet, I brought Mangoes. Cash helped me by adding some organic corn chips and Cherries which was hand selected for Spa (aka leaving her with all the deformed yet still delicious cherries). 

Corn chips added a nice crunch to Biryani. Soft rice and crunchy chips. Like Spa pointed out, adding carbs to carbs. Even it that was a crime, it was a delicious Carb on Carb crime. 

 

SLAW lunch was mostly about MOROCCO. More specifically Spa's potential upcoming vacation to Morocco.  Looks like she has a few places in mind, friends lined up for the trip, good connection with a hotel owner, room picked out and everything.  While Spa was talking about her trip, Cash started singing "One Night in Fez" which was taken from "One Night in bangkok" by Murray Head. 

Here is a little video of our lunch.  You will notice Spa breaking out her dance moves.  And thats not why i cut the video... I swear.

For every SLAW there is a lot of prep and hard work.  In today's episode, my mom was up early cooking, cutting and mixing away. Interesting thing about Project SLAW is that we do setup, eat, laugh, try to dance and cleanup under an hour which is why SLAW has lasted as long as it did. Even on a day when its my turn, our office lunch lasted 45 minutes, and blogging about this including posting pics was an hour in the evening while watching TV. 

SLAW WORKS. BELIEVE IT.