My Life as a Foodie |
Food I like, restaurants I go to, restaurants I want to go to, recipes I have made or plan to make, and other foodie adventures. |
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Notes Bring Back McDonald’s Onion Nuggets
(image from Jason Liebig’s Flickr)I just found out about these and am wondering why they aren’t still around. I mean, come on, they are probably awesome, they are probably cheap to make, and they can’t be that expensive. Together we shall resurrect the onion nugget!
How can you not love these? It’s the one thing that’s always been missing at McDonalds - onion rings - but it’s doubtful they’d add these to the menu.
Which is just too bad / sad.
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A new burger joint to check out - they’re mini! - coming from Israel.
But love how it devolves into a political discussion.
(via Burgerim Brings Mini Burgers from Israel to Los Angeles - Certified Open - Eater LA)
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Interesting for anyone that grew up in Detroit - or has had Buddy’s or Shield’s pizza - that Little Caesar is unveiling a Detroit-style pizza (square deep-dish) to the US.
Interesting as Buddy’s has been landing on top pizza in the US lists lately. Hopefully, this won’t be overly terrible.
(via Little Caesar introduces its Detroit-style pizza Monday | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com)
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76+ million matzahs a year, with 851,000 for Passover.
How innovation helped Manischewitz own the matzah industry. Mmm, matzah brie.
(via How Behr Manischewitz, the Steve Jobs of Matzos, Revolutionized Passover : The New Yorker)
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The 8 long days of Passover are coming up.
And they start with the Seder (the Jesus Last Supper for the non-Jews), which is the telling of the story of Passover and the Exodus from Egypt. Shocking how few people know that.
But no bread or leavened stuff for 8 days. It takes creativity. And a lot of matza (the recipe looks good) and for me, salads.
Some more recipes for the Seder from NY’s Mile High Deli which is carving out quite the reputation in the city. Now I gotta try it.
Anyway, that’s not what I want to write about. More about how food is tied to memories, and I have a bunch of posts in the queue and gonna try to write more.
For me, Passover was about going to Bubbi and Zaidi’s with all the rest of the relatives, having a table that was just way too long, and going around reading the Haggadah.
And inevitably reading the Four Questions as I was the youngest for a while, and then still had to read them. And then tearing the house apart looking for the Afikoman, and getting anywhere from $10 to $20 for finding it. And then getting dessert which always was the apricot bars - Passover desserts sorta suck - and eating way too many of them.
But it’s one of those holidays that’s for family. And pretty sure there’s something in the Haggadah or Torah that talks about opening and inviting your house to those that don’t have a place to go, so our Arizona seders were always orphan seders.
All those years, my Bubbi took photos and recorded the seder. Wonder what ever happened to those tapes.
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National Potato Chip Day!!
Everyone makes a big deal about Pi Day, but thanks to Better Made (go Michigan products!!) and their email, I found out today is about potato chips!
Go eat a big bag. Mmm, potato chips. :)
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This is something I’d like to try out, but a fear/dislike of bee stings plus it’s illegal in LA to keep bees sorta makes it hard to do it.
But still would love to do it.
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The fun back story of Rooster Sauce (aka Sriracha) … and how the rooster got there!!
(via Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire, Yet ‘There’s Only One Rooster’ - Businessweek)
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(via Bludso’s BBQ on La Brea expected to open next week - latimes.com)
The launch of Bludso’s brings the Texas style BBQ to the La Brea/Wilshire area.
Which is a good thing because I’m too lazy to go to Compton, and this is a lot closer to me.
BBQ is one of those really personalized things with tons of alliances to styles, geographical locations and more. Hoping it can stack up to my favorite in Oakland.
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Any time we can get farm fresh food, it’s a good thing.
What’s interesting is that it’s not delivery or monthly services delivery (which adds a lot to the cost) but a central pick up location. What’s stupid is that they’re asking me to be a location? Yah, no.
Looking forward to trying it out, though.
