I am eating this sandwich right now

Here is a sandwich for when you want to eat a half a pound or more of ham all at once.

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Quick cook last night - forgive my cluttered kitchen. I was in the process of reorganizing when hunger struck.

http://imgur.com/a/qGbNs

Monkfish rubbed with salt, pepper, olive oil and dijon mustard, roasted at 475 degrees for approximately 20 minutes over grape tomatoes.

Served with farfalle in basil/parsley/spinach pesto made with walnut oil and dusted with 6 month cave-aged gouda and parmigiano reggiano.
 
Props on the Boddingtons. I love all those pub ale style beers, old speckled hen, tetleys, belhaven, etc. From a tap or from a widget can of course.
 
Melissa cooks dinner while I do important man-stuff like play Legends of Grimrock

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It is arak, an unsweetened anisated liquor.

It turns white if you mix it with water and ice for a lot of cool reasons dealt with in the wikipedia article. I think I'm going to buy a bottle tonight, even.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arak_(drink)

Arak is usually mixed in approximately 1/3 arak and 2/3 water in a traditional Levantine water vessel called "Ibrik", in Arabic "إبريق"; then the mixture is poured in small ice filled cups, like in the picture. This dilution causes the clear liquor to turn a translucent milky-white color; this is because anethole, the essential oil of anise, is soluble in alcohol but not in water. This results in an emulsion, whose fine droplets scatter the light and turn the liquid translucent, a phenomenon known as louching.

edit: it kind of rules, especially with a mezza spread like this one. Historically, Arabs drank it in the morning to prove they were men, and while that probably works, it will also prove that I am the soon to be unemployed man if I do that.
 
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so few sandwiches lately.

french ham and VSC french butter on baguette with cornichons

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