The day I stumbled upon Porchetta's...

It seemed only fitting that my first actual post about an amazing food experience should be the one that inspired me to start this blog.
So first of all, I'm a nanny and my hours are very unpredictable. Well a few days ago I found myself with an hour to kill before going back into work, so I was driving around downtown Pensacola, looking for a quick place to get lunch. I used urbanspoon.com (one of my favorite websites ever) and came across this place that had been rated 94% called Porchetta's. This place is on Garden Street and it's a little hard to find, but I'm really into places that are off the beaten trail. I walk into this super clean, albeit empty restaurant, and start looking at the menu (which consists of a chalkboard and several pictures of the food taped to the wall) I ordered the Big Momma because it got awesome reviews on urbanspoon and the woman behind the counter even suggested it. First of all I had to google the term porchetta. It is a savory, fatty, boneless pork roast of Italian culinary tradition according to Wikipedia. So the Big Momma is 4 ounces of porchetta on a hard italian roll. They dip the porchetta in au jous and it's all spicy and fabulous just like that...BUT then they mixed mayo, mustard, salt and pepper and spread it on the bottom half of the roll and well...let's just say I was ready to call the Food Network. This sandwich, humble as all get out in it's styrofoam box and bag of Lay's potato chips on the side, was to die for. The meat melted in my mouth and the bread was somehow soaked in au jous but still crunchy. So I took this sandwich up to First Baptist Church where I happened upon my friend Paul Hood-Patterson, a minister at the church. Paul and I had an impromptu sit down and talked about the path God has he and his wife on right now and life in general. It was one of those meaningful conversations I am so thankful for. Maybe next time I'll bing Paul his own sandwich...probably not.

http://www.porchettas.com/index.html