I was looking for some bread for P&J sandwiches and came across Ironkids crustless bread. What a great invention! We haven’t arrived at the crust issue with Michaela yet, but I hate crusts myself 🙂
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The Cook’s Thesaurus is one of my favorite food websites, and probably the most useful site around. It’s basically a food encyclopeadia; it gives you a description (even info about its origin and types) of almost any ingredient you can think of and tells you what you can substitute for it. Today, for example, I needed a substitute for sherry and the site told me that, as I suspected, I could use madeira. It also told me I could use red wine plus sugar, which I wouldn’t have thought of myself.
You can find it at http://www.foodsubs.com/
Menu – Michaela’s BD party – version 2 ( after initial round of shopping)
The menu hasn’t changed much, with the exception of the salad (couldn’t find arugula at Safeway yesterday, so I’m going with a mixed green salad).
Potato Chips
Tortilla chips
Baby Carrots
Steamed Broccoli
Baguettes
Guacamole
Salsa
Sour cream
Dip (storebought)
Cream Cheese
Mini P&J sandwiches
Provoletas on Bread
Chicken Satay
Tofu Satay
Beef Anticuchos
Mango Sausages
Grilled Portobello Mushrooms
Potato Salad
Mixed Green Salad with Gorgonzola Vinaigrette
Birthday Cake
Ice cream cake
Ice Cream
Sodas
Juices
Beer
White Wine
I should have known better. I knew better. A brand of BBQ sauce (or anything else for that matter) that needs a celebrity to put their name behind them cannot be very good. And I already had an idea that that guy, Emeril, was a joke. For the first time I saw his show on the Food Network (in Oregon, at the Weasku Lodge, while Mika slept in my arms). He looked like a construction worker… no, he talked like a construction worker. He was making steak tartare (which turns out to be an uncooked ground beef patty) and he was going through the steps as if instructing us how to change a faucet. Is that the deal with him? How unlikely he seems to be a top chef? Is he a top chef, anyway, or a joke to everyone but himself – or is he in in the joke as well?
But I digress, I should have known better but I bought the damn BBQ sauce (Emeril’s Sweet Original BAM B-Q). It was on sale at Safeway – Jack Daniels wasn’t. I needed two bottles. It tasted exactly like Heinz. Even Mike thought that.
If the guy is not a joke, how sad for him! I mean, to give up your whole professional credibility in order to make a few bucks! How greedy or desperate do you have to be to put your name on such a low quality product?
Now for the review: If you like Heinz BBQ sauce, you’ll like this, if not, or you’ve never tasted Heinz, avoid it.
And you thought my blog obsession was over (at last count I have ten active blogs). Alas, it’s not. My need to divide and subdivide, categorize and subcategorize is such that this blog obsession will only be over when MT (movable type, the company that creates the bloggins software) or someone else comes up with software that allow for subcategories. Now, wouldn’t that be great? I could consolidate all blogs into two or three (one business, one personal, maybe one Spanish). Until then, more blogs it is.
And this one is on food. If you read my regular blog you know that I write a lot about food. Food is both a necessity and a hobby. As it’s something that must be consumed daily, it’s easy to obsess about it. As it’s something that must be consumed daily, it’s easily to de-obsessed. After all, it’ll always be here.
With a new blog, I’ll be able to categorize better. Recipes separate from restaurant reviews separate from restaurant reviews. Of course, it would be still better if I could subcategorize here as well, but c’est la vie. I’ll keep dreaming.
So come on in, read my blog and tell me what you think.
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