Author: Elesara

“May we have three orzhe please?… some sort of meat and veggie wraps. Broccoli, some sort of lettuce that makes the wrap sweet.” –Blue Note pg 123

Ingredients

Directions

Wrapper
1. Place flour in a Medium bowl and set aside.
2. Put a large three finger pinch of sugar in a pot and add ½ cup of water and bring to a boil. 
3. Slowly pour the room temperature water into the flour while stirring with a fork or chopsticks. Then stir in the boiled water being careful not to splash yourself. Stir until no visible water remains. 
4. Lightly four a working surface.
5. When cool enough to handle turn out dough onto the floured surface and knead dough until smooth, about 6 minutes. 
6. Cut dough into even 8 pieces and cover with a damp towel to rest while you work on other parts of the recipe
7. Put a large pan over medium high heat. Roll out a dough wrapper to an 8 inch diameter circle. 
8. Heat dough in a hot pan until it starts to bubble and flip. About 2 minutes per side. While one wrapper cooks roll out the next wrapper. 
9. Remove first wrapper and put in a tortilla warmer or on a plate with a towel to cover. Cook the second wrapper and repeat with remaining dough balls. 

Filling
1. Set the oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit
2. Line baking sheet with aluminum foil.
3. Cut onion into large chunks and peel garlic, toss in food processor with oregano, salt, and pepper and pulse a few times. 
4. Add lamb to food processor, blitz until paste forms scrape down sides as necessary.
5. Dump meat paste onto baking sheet, form into a 5 inch by 8 inch brick and roast until internal temperature is 145 degrees, about 25 minutes.
6. Remove meat brick from oven and let rest for about 10 minutes.
7. Turn on broiler.
8. Cut broccoli into bite sized pieces. Steam about 7 minutes so they still have a bit of bite to them.
9. Rip lettuce into bite sized pieces.
10. Cut meat crosswise into thin strips, laying flat onto the baking sheet. Broil for a min or two depending on how crisp you like your meat.

Assembly
1. Grab a wrapper, slather some black bean paste on it. Add a few dashes of hot sauce, some lettuce, broccoli, and the meat strips.
2. Fold it and Enjoy.

“Eggs, bacon, and some thick biscuits with gravy, made from said bacon. I’m sorry it’s a diner breakfast. My skill set is pretty confined to sandwiches and diner food.” -Hattie Blue Note pg.13

Ingredients

1/2 pack Bacon
2 Eggs

Biscuits:
6 Tbs Butter
2 Cups Flour
1 Tbs Baking powder
1 Tbs Sugar
1 tsp Salt
¾ Cup Milk

Gravy:
3 slices of Bacon
5 Tbs Flour
1 Cup Milk
Salt
Pepper

Directions

Bacon
1. Get a roasting pan with drip tray. Lay slices of bacon on the pan to fill out the pan. Place the pan into a cold oven.
2. Set the oven to 425°F. Depending on how long your oven takes to heat up your bacon should be done in 12-14 minutes. Pull it out before it looks crispy, it’ll have a bit of carry over cooking after you pull it out.

Biscuits
1. Use a box grater to grate the butter into a small dish. Put it in the fridge to keep cool.
2. Add flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt to a mixing bowl, stir to combine. Add the milk and mix just to combine then add the chilled butter and mix until you have a shaggy dough.
3. Working quickly, roll out the dough gently then laminate like a croissant. Folding in thirds. Roll again and fold in thirds in the opposite direction. Squish down with hands. Cut out biscuits with a rind mold
4. Move biscuits to a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 10 Minutes at 425°F

Gravy
1. While the biscuits bake, put 3 slices of bacon in a cold sauce pot. Turn the heat to medium high and cook bacon until just crispy. Pull the bacon out and reserve the bacon fat.
2. Measure out 3 Tablespoons of bacon fat and return to the pot and reduce heat to medium.
3. Add flour and whisk like your life depends on it until the flour turns a pale gold color like a light beer.
4. Slowly whisk in the milk. Be careful as it likes to sputter as the milk is added.
5. Chop up the bacon that was cooked in the pot and add to the gravy. Season with salt and pepper until delicious.

Egg
1. Toss some reserved bacon fat in a pan over medium heat and fry the egg until desired doneness. Add salt and pepper

Assembly
1. Tear a biscuit in half. Layer some bacon on the bottom, then egg and top with gravy.
2. Eat it.