The night before Thanksgiving I was running around getting last minute groceries and I was starving. Neil was sick in bed and I needed to get back home to start cooking. I was on 7th street and was going to stop into
Luke's Lobster for a bowl of soup but there were totally sold out of everything. Just a little ways down the block and across the street is
Porcetta where they serve amazing humanely raised heritage pork. I hemmed and hawed at the menu and eventually the very helpful woman behind the counter said:
Have you had our lasagna? I had not, though I had heard about their lasagna I wondered why it wasn't on the menu?
It was $8 for a generous portion served on a lovely old plate like your grandmother would have had. Homemade noodles, Parmesan bechamel and a pork ragout. It was heaven, truly one of the best things I have ever eaten. It's amazing I was able to stop long enough to take the picture. Rich, creamy with a sharp edge of the Parmesan juxtaposed to the fall apart in your mouth pork which every now and then you'll bite into a chewy end piece and get an mouth explosion of slightly salty fatty ambrosia. $8 bucks. Deal of the century. Even though it's not on the menu it's a regular item so phone before you go and tell 'em you're coming for the lasagna!
Oddly enough both Porcetta and another placed I passed on my way home had Thanksgiving marketing that both basically said:
Save a Turkey eat pork!
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