The Best Corn Beef Hash In the Whole State of Rhode Island

First day home we always try & visit Ed's Roost in East Greenwich Rhode Island. This restaurant is walking distance from Elderidge Elementary , a school that I attended a LONG time ago.  Break dancing was really hot and Jason Shepherd could do a head spin therefor the most popular kid in class.  

Anyway, my dad loved this place. The same guy has been cooking here for decades, he is very strange; a giant of a man with long scraggly white hair sporting a white-ish sweatband. He lurches about shocking people that happened to experience a sighting, but HOLY CRAP the hash is amazing.  I have only recently enjoyed the pleasurable sin that is eating pork (and chicken & beef & duck & quail & lamb).  I have long watched in silent "aw" of other's piling this delicacy into their mouths while I had the usual dry toast with tomato.  

I've had it twice now & pepé cote would be proud.  I think about it often.

  

Brooklyn Breakfast in a Half Pan

Prospect Heights ~ Brooklyn ~ Our Destination.  

In order to honor our host Senior Ricc Sheridan ( brother Dean's drum teacher & mentor http://www.earlgreyhound.com/ ) we felt that a bone-in rib eye was in order.  Granted, Ricc's on the road a lot with the band.  Therefore, he lacks in the kitchen department aka no pots or pans.  Thank god we brought the traveling kitchen (will post that soon!).  

I thought that I had packed my La Cruset grill pan & a hotel half pan. Unfortunately, I forgot the grill pan & that was the entire reason that I even bought this amazing steak. Let me just say also that the tiny neighborhood market was full of the freshest, highest quality meats & produce that I have seen, which is probably one of the reasons people love this town. 

Oh well, we just cooked everything in our half pan.  it was a challenge but we were able to get a beautiful sear on the steak, then wilted the spinach in the tiny amount of rendered fat.  Eggs were last & we added some fresh sheep feta at the end to round out the breakfast.  Then used the Mexican hot sauce that we brought from austin as a condiment.  Yummy town, USA.

Delicious!

Delicious! This-morning's fresh eggs ready to scramble for our guests. The color and texture of these eggs are truly amazing. Deep orange, rich velvety yolks.

Tiny egg

This tiny little egg was laid by one of our Rhode Island Reds this past week. I've never seen a chicken egg this small. Does it have a yolk? Is it edible? Would it hatch a tiny little chick?

Funny thing happened. The usual crowd of random out-of-townies came to stay & eat at the foodie farm which gave me the guts to crack it open for a little entertainment. Sadly, there was no yolk, it was simply a small amount of egg white. I was reluctant to waste the egg so one of the house guests swallowed it down raw! It made me feel weird but he lived so we called it the magic egg. It now gives Adam special powers but we are not sure what.