4 posts tagged “food”
First, as a thank you for the Sterogum tip-off: there's also 3GB of music from SXSW for those who might have missed the post on Lifehacker. In other news a PMOG mission led me to the best food pr0n site ever. In the sense of food that gives you voyeuristic glee, not naked chicks covered in flour.
Seriously, let me send you a PMOG invite. So. Much. Fun.
What's your favorite kind of homemade cookie? Share the recipe if you have it.
I used to be a pretty die hard Nestle's Tollhouse Cookie guy, but in the last month I've come to the dark side of Trader Joe's Frozen Cookie Dough because:
- while "from scratch" is better, it's not that much better
- little balls of frozen cookie dough are yummy on their own
- you're less likely to gorge yourself on the little frozen cookie bites than the tube of raw dough.
Other than that, though, I really dig my mom's snickerdoodle recipe (which I think is out of that Ultimate Cookie Book-- my mom's got an older edition, but I'm fairly sure it's the same) and Bootsie's grandma's molasses cookie recipe. I likes me the old folks cookies now.
The internet is great!
Or how to get by without eating seven-legged hermaphroditic roadkill.
When we got to Phoenix, it didn't take long to notice that a fast-food hamburger was not appreciably lower in price, in spite of what people had been saying about things being cheaper here. Alright, I wasn't surprised and that's not really the point, but this point was really driven home to me when I tore through a McDonald's drive through the other day and got something I could eat on the drive back to work. (You see, I'd spend about ninety minutes on my lunch hour and by that point still hadn't even eaten anything.) What I noticed was that for the same price as my greasy-ass shit-meal, I could have picked up two entrees, rice, nan, salad, rice pudding, and a drink at this Indian joint up the road from the office. I mean, it's not the best Indian food I've ever had, but even the low-end Indian places in Somerville would charge you seven or eight bucks for lunch, and that was without the beverage.
Alright, so this is about as earth shattering as just posting the link to the crazy roadkill story, but hey, I'm still getting used to living out here. It seemed noteworthy. Once we've found places that aren't specifically aimed at luring in the wealthy vacationers, you can get the good local food for a price comparable to those mid-range fancy fast food joints, like Panera, Qdoba, etc.. I don't know that I'm going to stop eating out more than I should, but I need to remember to make sure I don't keep thinking of the fast food joints as a notably cheaper option.
