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It was last night. Me and Lisa were craving for some food exploding
with grease juice, due to a stressful evening that we had to go through
in order to better our hungry, but productive life style. So we both
agreed to purchase sweet and sour chicken and veggie lo-mein from a
Chinese fast food chain that is located one block away from Lisa’s
apartment (on Troutman, off the Jefferson stop on the L train). We used to be their #1 customer last summer, so it was a refreshing memory flash back time for both of us. Sometimes it is not so bad idea to look back the past. Perfect beverage for this meal is Budwiser 40 oz. We brought these goods to Lisa’s apartment and satisfied
our stomach very soon. Of course, we both pour sriracha on lo-main to keep grease rush minimal. Nothing could complete that evening without Sheryl Crow performing in Apple computer.
This is a guy I met at Rosemary’s Greenpoint Tavern on Bedford and North 7th Street in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
I think his name is either UMBERTO or ALBERTO. I’m not sure, but he is Mexican. The boxes that he holds in his hands are small cases of Mexican candy that he was very excited about and passed out to everyone at the bar. I tried THREE different candies from him, and I will review them here:
1. PULPARINDO, this is tamarind candy that has a consistency that is a cross between Airheads and cookie dough. The taste is very INTENSE. Notice the HOT and SALTED feature of this candy, flavored by a sweet and tart fruit. Needless to say, I was pretty into it, but it is a candy I savor in small nibbles. Candy has a weird dried fruit smell to it, but I don’t mind.
2. PULPARINDO EXTRA PICANTE, very similar to the original pulparindo, except it is darker in color and has a lot more chili powder in it and ON IT. Eating this made me realize that the first one I ate was supposed to be spicy too, but I don’t remember it being that spicy. This EXTRA PICANTE one is certainly noticeably so!
3. BUBU LUBU, last but not least, it is BUBU LUBU. First of all it is called BUBU LUBU. Secondly, this is actually one of the least substantial and least satisfying candy bars I have ever eaten. This is what’s in it:
-strawberry flavored jelly
-marshmallow
-chocolate flavored coating
Okay? There’s a reason why that part is printed so small on the wrapper. I was mesmerized by Bubu Lubu until I ate it, and it was bad. This tastes bad. All I can say is BUBU LUBU.
these are some of my favorite cubes. not surprisingly, they are edible:
(not in order of preference)
those watermelons grown as cubes
ham cubes
cheese cubes
jello cubes
ice cubes
weed cubes
sugar cubes
tofu
it is also fun to cube things that do not typically come as cubes. you can cube melon (much better than the balls) and you can cube fruits and vegetables for kebabs. cubed steak is good and you can cube mango to make it easy to eat.
i guess the moral of this story is that cubed food is the only way to go right now. its more real than you could ever imagine.
j/k these are alfalfa cubes
I was making for my friends the other day a batch of my favorite sandwich: the avocado reuben. At 7am I woke to make this damned delish treat when I realized that I could not make the Russian dressing because my ketchup had gone bad. Who’s ketchup goes bad anyways? And where to get ketchup anew at 7am? I was nearly terrified. I almost was disappointed really and truly. My lunch and the lunch of others was really on the brink here. So I set out to look at the condiments in my fridge and and spice cabinet all the while trying to prepare myself for the use of plain mayo on an otherwise devine and perfect sammy. But let me tell you my sauce turned out to be better than the original. Would I blog about a bad lunch?
Here’s what I used:
Hellmans real mayonnaise
hickory smoked BBQ Sauce! -so good
and Sriracha which added this really spicy element. such a nice compliment to the avocado
the rest of the ingredients are:
toasted rye bread
sliced avocado
saurkraut
melted swiss cheese
We all really enjoyed our lunch. For dessert I brought peeled grapefruit halves with sugar sprinkled on them. It was a really light and sweet follow up. no pics, sorry!
I beg you to make this sandwich for yourself and those close to you. You will never regret.
