Anything with melted cheese is good...right?

...Usually that is true. Not that it wasn't this time, but just not as good as I was hoping. Like with anything, sometimes food ideas work out better in my head, than they do in real life. I am reminded of the time, as a young child, that I thought I could hold a bandanna by all four corners, above my head, and jump out of a tree. The bandanna would act as a parachute and land me safely on the ground. Afterall, I'd seen this done a million times in Tom & Jerry cartoons. Yeah, not so much. Slam!!! Anyway...Grilled cheese with spinach and mushrooms on 14 grain. Probably could have been better with some sort of meat. Satisfying nonetheless.

Tasty Drinks

Picked these up at a going out of business sale at some Asian market; the name of which escapes me. I've never really tried guava before. Reminds me of the Sobe drink with a lizard on it. Lizard Juice? Do they still make that? Wait, don't they all have lizards on them? Anyway, it's not that bad. Always a fan of the coconut. These were about 5o cents a peice. Normally a dollar, I think.

Venison!

My father and an uncle of mine are hunter's. They both got a deer this past season. (In fact my dad may have gotten two.) My dad lives by himself and my uncles wife can't stand the thought of wild game being in the house. So lucky guy that I am, I ended up with a good chunk of venison this year. Here are various concoctions:


Steak marinated in vinegar and seared in olive oil. Sourdough baugette with melted mozzerella.


Tacos. Corn tortilla, cheese, onion, lime juice. (Notice the lucha libre magazine under the plate. How appropriate..sorta.)


Thinly sliced steak, marinated in salt water and seared in olive oil. Wild rice (riced by my mother) with mushrooms and onion carmalized with brown sugar.



I have to adimit, this is weird. This is just what it looks like. Sliced steak and chicken ramen noodle. Actually tastes really good. Seriously.

Good..but not Great.

Bean vermacelli noodles. Prawn flavored. There are these creepy little starfish things floating around. I like the packaging and name better than the actual soup. But still, it's "Good."

Eggs in a Basket

Eggs in a basket is one of the easiest things to make. It was probably the first thing my mother ever taught me to cook. I vaguely recall her showing me how to cut a circle in the bread and butter it. We used to fry the circle too. Then the most crucial part was cracking the egg and dropping it in without breaking the yoke. Ah, the memories. Until now, I haven't made them since I was a child. I cooked mine so the eggs are still runny and added some cheddar cheese. Potatoes, jalapeno, red onion and garlic, fried in olive oil and seasoned with Tabasco and pepper. Toss some tomato in near the end for color. Enjoy...I did.

Global Candy

Walking around the Midtown Global Market with the family over the holidays, I found these little gems. I gave them to my buddy for his birthday. I presented them to him in front of a bunch of friends who had gathered that night to watch the UFC ppv, so of course they got cracked open and passed around. Actually, come to think of it, I'm probably the one that pushed to get these opened. I'm always up for testing out stuff like this.


Salsagheti is stringy, gummy, watermelon flavored candy from Mexico. It contains a little package of tamarino as well. I guess it's supposed to be the sauce for the noodles? Not good.


Another Mexican candy. Just what it says: goat milk and pecans. Maybe carmel too? Not sure. Really chewy and actually fairly deec. I probably couldn't eat more than one of these at a time...er a day, that is. Still, not bad though.


Well we already had the candy version of spaghetti, so why not the candy version of chili rellenos? I can't really remember much about Swinkles. Just that it was spicy. Also from, you guessed it, Mexico.


I'm pretty sure we all agreed that these were the favorite. Delicious bite-sized, chocolate filled, crumbly crust, puffy pies! Pretty cool packaging too. I think these are from either Japan or South Korea.

I shouldn't' jump to any conclusions just yet. I was a little drunk so I would probably try each of these at least one more time to get a better read on them. But probably no more than one time...Well like I said; I shouldn't jump to conclusions yet.

meat-cheese-bread-beer

The nice thing about being the last one at work on a Friday, is you get to take all the leftover food from that weeks potluck home with you. I left with a couple pounds of deli meat, two packages of cheese and a loaf of bread. I was eating sandwiches for a week. This particular one is pastrami with swiss and pepperjack on white; grilled to the perfect stage of coagulation. I had to buy the PBR myself. Simple sandwich, simple chaser.