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A little recipe I whipped up last summer:
email me for a printoutable size. lisa.ramsey@gmail.com!
Thanks to Erika Neola for taking these stills. We had a really awesome video shoot this weekend, despite no AC, 169 degree weather, loud block parties outside, slimy rotting cornish hens, etc… We went through about 30 rolls of paper towels (and 400 rolls of toilet paper) over the course of two 12 hour days soaking up boiling sweat (and poop). It’s all worth it, right?
Here’s a sneak peak at what we have in store for the next episode:
I have a good feeling, this one is going to be a real mind blower. STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS. Peace out, Love, THU TRAN!!
Today I had a most delicious flavor adventure on my lunch break. I took a trip to the East Village to a little place called OTAFUKU! Their specialty is JAPANESE STREET FOOD.
TAKOYAKI!
They only have a few items on their menu. I went for their famous okonomiyaki and takoyaki. Okonomiyaki is a pan-fried savory treat that is part omelette, part pancake, and part pizza. It is sometimes called Japanese Pizza. It is made with shredded cabbage, eggs, ginger, flour, scallions and then topped with beef, pork, squid, or shrimp. Takoyaki translates to fried octopus and are small dumplings (think donut holes) made from batter and scallions and when cooking a piece of octopus is dropped inside. They are then topped with okonomi sauce (very sweet and kind of tangy), mayonnaise sauce, dried seaweed and a generous sprinkle of dried bonito flakes (which look like powdery bacon but is actually tuna).
Here is a crappy camera shot of my tasty treats. Let me suggest that you should get this food when you have time to sit down and enjoy it while it is HOT. Taking it back to your busy office is not a good idea. Needless to say, the okonomiyaki was AWESOME!!!!! Really filling and cheap (my combo cost 8.00!). The combo of cabbage and eggs and beef was very pleasing for my palate. I was a bit scared of the takoyaki because I had never eaten Octopus. But it was very similar to calamari (squid!) and wasn’t scary at all really. Plus, the takoyaki are so darn cute….who could resist???
Here’s where to GRUB IT UP!
OTAFUKU – 236 E. 9th St., New York, NY 10003 (212) 353-8503
Hello friends!
So a couple weeks ago Christian from Beautiful Monster had sent me this glorious image of donut bacon cheeseburgers, and of course I was immediately in love, duh:
Doing some lite research on google, apparently these are also known as the “Luther Burger,” named after celebrated R&B singer Luther “Endless Love” Vandross. Traditionally made with Krispy Kreme donuts. I’m pretty sure Doan Buu, burger and hotdog enthusiast, had written about this burger before. God, my mouth is a flood of saliva right now as I am looking at this glossy image of food, and my mouth is a dam, and if I open my mouth, I’ll be sure to embarrass myself. I love this sweet bread, salty meat combo, as it also works extremely well in my chinese bakery favorites, curry donut and roast pork bun.
Today I made donut cheeseburgers for friends using donuts from Peter Pan bakery. As it was towards the latter part of the day, the donut selection was quite limited. No glazed donuts as I would have liked, but I got sugar donuts, french cruellers, and jelly donuts, as bun substitutes. I also made mine “royal red robin” style with a fried egg, minus bacon. I must say, donuts, and I mean ANY kind of donut, TRUST ME, are my new favorite hamburger bun.
Here are the results (photo courtesy my cellphone), looks strangely healthy doesn’t it?:
I had also taken a picture of Zachariah Durr eating this burger and experiencing full ecstasy, but my cellphone ate it, so here is a poor google image search substitute for what he looked like:
Just Kidding!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
The End.
Arizona Jack's, Super Hot Giga Jerky sheet shit.
SO, all the kids came into town last week for the fourth of July, and from somewhere deep in the bowels of New Jersey, they captured what is by far the largest, widest, most impressive, and most overblown Jerky “snack” ever produced. As soon as I was handed this i was also told that it was pretty much a gag, and there was no reason for me to try to eat it, because it “tastes gross” and “is just stupidly big.” Au contraire, mon ami. I talked to my new roomie Ian Fullerton about the challenge, and he suggested Inside-out Jerkey Burritos. Genius.
The next day I busied myself with finding as many ingredients as I could to fill my inside out burritos with for 5 dollars. I manged to hobble together guacamole, salsa, and refried beans. I already had some brown rice, and some soft onion cheese from a Ohio dairy farm.
And then I wrapped them in sheets of jerky to make these!!!
BOO YA! All the starch is on the inside! Get it?! It’s like these burritos rode a swing and managed to get all the way over the swing-set, just like Inside Out Boy except they came back crazy delicious.
!!!Update… these are kinda gross to eat. While they look appetizing and zesty, they are in fact super overwhelming. And they smell exactly like dog food. Oh well. !!!!
Hi guys!! This morning I treated myself to some gourmet chocolates!!
I initially went into the Food Emporium on 8th Ave to get something nourishing to eat to grab and go for breakfast before going to work, but health was pushed aside this morning for this impulsive chocolate purchase. I could not resist the precious look on the cat’s face looking at me with it’s mouth closed. I knew that inside the box contained 20 replicas of its tongue casted in chocolate.
Lo and behold, I open the box, and there they were. Tongues. I lift one up to eat it and swirled it onto my own tongue and around my mouth and imagined I was kissing the cat, and we were sharing our joy in being in the company of each other. I licked it, and it licked me. Our tongues became boat paddles in a Pacific Ocean of saliva within my mouth. The chocolate slowly melted, creamy, rich, brown and silky smooth, and the chocolate reproduction of the cat’s tongue was inside me. Oh, I was in ecstasy.
Just in case you haven’t seen it yet, this is our new trailer for Home Alone Part Egg, newly released on DVD:
The music in it is by our one-man orchestra, Matt Fitzpatrick, using his new symphonic capabilities. He made this song in 20 minutes while eating a burrito or something. HAHAHA!!
Oh yeah, plus Taylor Dell just sent me this sweet video that blew my mind. Warning, it might get boring after watching 8 times:
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