{"id":14270,"date":"2014-03-20T22:41:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T02:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=14270"},"modified":"2014-03-20T22:41:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T02:41:09","slug":"another-amazing-meal-at-family-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/20\/another-amazing-meal-at-family-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"Another amazing meal at Family Meal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday night&#8217;s surprise snowfall forced me to cancel our dinner reservations at the recently opened Aggio, which caused me to undergo a bit of Bryan Voltaggio withdrawal. Luckily, I had various errands to run over in Maryland Tuesday, which gave  me a perfectly good reason to drop by one of the chef&#8217;s other restaurants, Family Meal. I&#8217;ve been enjoying that spot ever since  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2012\/07\/21\/family-meal\/\">it opened back in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I started, of course, with my favorite appetizer, the chicken pot pie fritters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealChickenPotPieFritter2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealChickenPotPieFritter2014-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"FamilyMealChickenPotPieFritter2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealChickenPotPieFritter2014-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealChickenPotPieFritter2014-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealChickenPotPieFritter2014-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I placed my order, the server indicated that the recipe had been tweaked to include crushed Ritz crackers in the crust. Surprisingly, this improved a concept I already enjoyed. The coating held together the pot pie filling more tightly, and made for an even more interesting contrast between the shell and what was inside.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s as far as my duplication went, though, and my entree and dessert were all new (to me anyway). My main course was the shrimp po&#8217; boy, which included lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, and creole mayonnaise. <\/p>\n<p>Check out the size of these shrimp!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealShrimpPoBoy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealShrimpPoBoy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"FamilyMealShrimpPoBoy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealShrimpPoBoy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealShrimpPoBoy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealShrimpPoBoy-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A  tasty combination, and the bread was choice, too.<\/p>\n<p>Desssert was the banana-butterscotch pudding, layered with spiced shortbread, cream cheese mousse, and banana. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealBananaButterscotchPudding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealBananaButterscotchPudding-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"FamilyMealBananaButterscotchPudding\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealBananaButterscotchPudding-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealBananaButterscotchPudding-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FamilyMealBananaButterscotchPudding-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Definitely groan-inducing. It tasted so good  I&#8217;m not quite sure the concoction is entirely legal in the state of Maryland. Better get there to try one yourself before the authorities find out!<\/p>\n<p>How much do I like Family Meal? So much so that it&#8217;s where I&#8217;ll be celebrating my birthday at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Can there be any higher recommendation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday night&#8217;s surprise snowfall forced me to cancel our dinner reservations at the recently opened Aggio, which caused me to undergo a bit of Bryan Voltaggio withdrawal. Luckily, I had various errands to run over in Maryland Tuesday, which gave me a perfectly good reason to drop by one of the chef&#8217;s other restaurants, Family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[221,220,49],"class_list":["post-14270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bryan-voltaggio","tag-family-meal","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14284,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14270\/revisions\/14284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}