Road Trip: Chef Tad & Catherine in Cleveland

Posted on 26 April 2007 under Shopping

Yesterday while visiting Cleveland to buy pasta, Chef Tad & Catherine of the Frog Leg Inn stumbled upon the West Side Market. In the evening there were bags containing numerous finds strewn all over the pizza prep station in the kitchen at the Frog Leg Inn. There were various handmade sausages; an andouie, a wonderful turkey sausage, and a jalapeño sausage having large chunks of jalapeño throughout the meat. Talk about hot! Out of everything they’d brought back, the Chef seemed most interested in a smoked turkey drumstick. We’re not talking just any drumstick. This puppy weighed in at 1-2/3 pounds on its own! Chef Tad grabbed a santoku knife and started slicing of thin slabs of the drumstick. Moist, tender, seriously meaty, very little fat, it had a beautiful flavor. It was so moist, one of the servers spat it out because she thought it was still raw! We figured it had been slow-smoked for at least twelve hours. There was a turkey wing in the bag as well, almost as big as the drumstick.

Be sure to check out the interactive vendor directory for the West Side Market. Chef Tad has promised some photos. Personally, I’d rather have more of that turkey … Hey Chef, did you ever figure out who took a bite out of the end of that drumstick??

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