Pasta Primavera plus Gazpacho

Cup of Gazpacho with a dollop of sour cream

House-made fusilli with zucchini, mushrooms, tomato, broccoli, carrots and spinach with olive oil and garlic and parmesan cheese

Grilled bread

@ Paulie's

Pastrami and Cheese with Potato Salad

Pastramarama sandwich - House made pastrami on toasted rye with house made stone ground mustard, caramelized onions and gruyere cheese,

with red skin potato salad, hard-boiled egg and mayonnaise

@ Ploughman's Deli and Cafe

Seafood Courtbouillon

Louisiana style Seafood Courtbouillon - shrimp, crawfish, catfish, red, green and yellow bell peppers, onions and rice in a blonde roux - Lunch portion

served with a side salad

@ Floyd's Sugar Land

Brisket and Ribs

Two-meat plate, wrapped and boxed-up to go

Collard greens with pulled pork, Creole potato salad

Brisket (flat cut) and St. Louis style ribs - smoked with post oak - plus sauce, house-made pickled onions, carrots, jalapenos and cucumbers and white bread

from Willow's Texas BBQ

French Dip

Rare roast beef (Boar's Head - Belden's), baguette (Whole Foods), horseradish, au jus

on the patio (note glimpses of the sky through the leaves of a Lace Bark Elm overhead, reflected in the jus)

Pulled Pork Sandwich with Potato Salad

Sweet Caroline Pulled Pork sandwich with mustard barbecue sauce (not shown), cole slaw (on the side, for the sandwich) and a side of potato salad

from Pappas Bar-B-Q, Westwood

Seafood Gumbo plus Boudin Balls

Seafood gumbo with garlic toast plus boudin balls

Shrimp, crawfish, fish, crab, rice, onions, green onions, green bell peppers, celery and tomato

Boudin balls with honey Creole remoulade sauce

@ Boudreaux's Cajun Kitchen

Tampopo Shouyu Ramen

Chicken and soy sauce broth, pork belly, menma (marinated bamboo shoots), ajitama (egg), naruto (surimi with a pink swirl), green onions and nori

@ Samurai Noodle, Houston

Mixed Gumbo and Roast Beef Poboy

Mixed Gumbo - shrimp, a little bit of chicken, a little bit of sausage, rice

Small Roast Beef Poboy - lettuce, tomato, pickle, mayonnaise and roast beef, gravy on the side in the background

@ Calliope's, W. Bellfort location