6 September Tuesday, almost Wednesday

I love trains. I have always loved trains. I loved the electric train that my dad set up at Christmas, I loved riding the subway in DC as a kid, riding MARTA in Atlanta, the wonderful London Underground, the Chicago EL, and the truly good system that is MUNI/BART in the Bay Area. And I must say, I do love riding Amtrak. Let´s build more. Let´s make high speed rail from San Francisco to Cleveland. All aboard. I´m not going to say anything more about this, but the food service on Amtrak is head and shoulders way above the quality of anything you would get on a airplane. It is the enjoyable experience that travel is supposed to be.

The beautiful jar of honey I wrote of a few writes ago survived the journey. Pork tenderloin is on sale at the market, I think honey roast pork tenderloin sandwiches will be perfect this weekend. I actually imagine the sandwich: Chewy roll with honey roasted pork tenderloin, braised greens like broccoli rabe, kale or collards, a spicy sauce with red pepper flakes and garlic and olive oil, fresh tomato and avocado slices. We finish with a Polish Honey Cake from Richard Sax great home desserts book.

Richard Sax wrote one truly great cookbook, Classic Home Desserts. He scoured this nation for regional recipes. He perfected them, he wrote at length the difference between crisps, buckles, cobblers, crumbles, slumps, grunts, and pandowdys. Among the most amazing recipes is the one for Apple Cake, which is kinda like a Apple Clafoutis. Also, perfect pumpkin pie, butterscotch pie, summer berry things. Plum pudding for Christmas. Everyone should own a copy of this masterpiece of everything we love about life.