I'm not sure if Hot Dogs are a terribly popular thing outside of America, but here they're kind of a big deal. If it's pork or chicken franks, or beef or Kosher or otherwise... We've a lot of dogs. And we serve them a lot of different ways depending on where you're from.
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While I personally didn't cook (perk of being a lesbian husband in a traditional Filipina household -- they don't know what to do with me), my beautiful wife did the taters. Sweet potato casserole (one of my FAVORITES), green bean casserole (I once ate an entire plate of green bean casserole one year at Thanksgiving. #NoRegrets), stuffing, turkey, mashed potatoes, roll, and a homemade cranberry sauce that I actually got the recipe for from my father-in-law. I won't share it now, because I want pictures to show you, but it is TASTY! Will do it another time. Now, me, I was raised with ham AND turkey, and it upsets me that in this family, ham is only a Christmas thing. But yesterday, I went to a friend's place for early Turkey Day (I know, shame on me, no pictures...) that had my ham (and I shamelessly took a few slabs home, as well as more GBC and an entire pie of varying flavors), but also... homemade sushi. And their 'cracker tray' was actually a 'relish tray' with olives and pickles on it as well. Different strokes! When I was a kid, my dad would make a cracker tray for Thanksgiving (and/or Christmas dinner) that had six kinds of crackers, four kinds of sausage, seven kinds of cheese and usually a cheese ball in the middle of it! We would sit there and watch him slice cheese and meat by hand (and wait for opportunities to steal some) and he would cover the trays, and NO ONE TOUCHES THEM UNTIL GUESTS ARRIVE, and we would wait until someone finally showed up, and we would oh-so-discreetly sweep them into the kitchen and ENCOURAGE them to give it a try so you could get a bite of Club and colby jack and summer sausage that you'd been thinking about for weeks... ...Oh, just me? Sorry. *wipes droop from shirt* Because everyone had the day off, it was also one of those rare days when my dad would pull out the griddle and make Big Breakfast, as he called it (homemade hashbrowns, eggs, pancakes, bacon...) or Eggs Benedict, which is still a taste of the holidays for me, to this day. SO! What are some of your holiday traditions? Comment below!Karuna's is a tiny little Thai restaurant out in college country, right across from the Bookman's on Grant & Campbell. For a little shop with short business, it's got quite a loyal clientele who are more than happy to wait for this WONDERFUL Thai... Including us.
So... I pretty much love Christmas. As crazy as my Cookie gets about Halloween, I'm just as bad with Christmas. Today we pulled out decorations (like the stockings and gingerbread lamp) and were putting things up around the place. AND ALSO! We went grocery shopping, and one of my FAVOURITE THINGS IN THE WORLD is finally back in stock! CHRISTMAS TREE CAKES. As a rule, chocolate, sushi and baked goods are all very viable ways to win my heart through my stomach, which is why I have a TARDIS full of chocolates, keep track of the best AYCE sushi joints in town, and have a wife that bakes. ...Also, that's the new Grinch from Build-A-Bear Workshop. Yes, I have the BABW newsletter in my e-mail. Don't judge me. HE'S SOFT AND WONDERFUL AND MY LOVERLY GOT HIM FOR ME, INCLUDING THE SANTA SUIT AND HAT AND SHOES, AND HE SINGS THE SONG, TOO. #AdmitItYoureJealous #DONTTOUCHHIMHESMINE!!! #Grinch
The only thing better than a restaurant with amazing food is a restaurant with amazing food that is AYCE -- All You Can Eat. But the best kind of AYCE is a sushi AYCE.
...Don't judge me. After the show, we hit the mall for dinner (yay, food court!) because we have to be on 4th Avenue to do a flier party with Heavy Petting, Tucson's own Rocky Horror Picture Show shadow cast! Of which we are both cast members. For once, I didn't go for Panda Express (though you KNOW how much I love my Chinese, and especially my Panda), but Cookie did stick with her Taco Bell (for shame), and I instead got Sarku.
Do you know I got this bento box for $8? LOOK!!! I INCLUDED THE RECEIPT BECAUSE I KNEW YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE ME. Today's a treat! I'm scratching another show off my bucket list -- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is playing at the Rogue Theatre! This is the same venue that was playing Waiting For Godot last January, and we hope to keep going more. But before we go, we needs must eat! And today, we wanted Jimmy John's!
I know, we've been bad this week. But we kept going on and on about going to Boston Market again, and finally did so. OMG, YUMMY HOMECOOKED MEAL WITHOUT HAVING TO COOK, FOR THE WIN!
Spam and eggs is an admittedly quirky, but fairly cheap (and easy!) recipe (can we call it a recipe?) that is a Pacific Islander thing. Cookie, as you may or may not yet know, is a Filipina, and this is a dish she grew up with as a child. It's also a comfort food favorite for Hawaiians and Samoans!
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Brunch w/ BlakeHalf-boricuan, half-corn fed Indiana hick. Stir in a taste of the southwest and serve in LA, on the rocks. #BrunchWithBlake #FoodPorn #LAFoodie Archives
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