I had some requests for the recipe for the delicious creamy green taco cart salsa. It could probably use some more tweaking, but this is the basic theory:
-De-seed and chop a half pound of jalepenos. Dump in blender.
-Add the juice of two limes.
-Add two cloves of garlic.
-Add salt, pepper, and chili powder to taste.
-Puree the mixture until it’s as chopped as it’s likely to get.
-Drizzle in oil while the blender is running until the desired creamy consistency is reached.
Your tacos will thank you for it.
After the tapioca chip incident I had a lot of fry oil left over. So I’ve been doing some deep-frying which is not a normal part of my oeuvre. I started with some duros, which are conceptually similar to tapioca chips.
They start off as rock-hard wheels of flour, and then they puff up in the oil to make a greasy, crispy, and light snack
For extra points you can dust them with chili powder and lime, or so Thora tells me.
Next for the deep frying is a codfish fritter mix. It’s sort of in the dessicated cod category of food. Dry cod flakes (and a few bones) mixed in with dumplings.
It turns out gooey on the inside and crisp on the outside.
I won’t deny it, I watched the Super Bowl. The friends who hosted the Super Bowl party made frito pie.
The spicy chili version was easily ten times more exciting than the game.
This is a yogurt-flavored soda.
If coke came in single-swallow containers I would probably drink it more often.
I’ve been reading this book called "Man Eating Bugs", which is all about how different cultures eat insects. The pictures are amazing and mouth watering.
There’s a whole page of warnings about eating bugs at home, including the warning that people who are allergic to shrimp shouldn’t eat insects. I myself am allergic to shrimp (although I don’t like publicly admitting to my kryptonite-esque weakness), and I have long suspected that the allergy is not limited to shrimp and crabs, and that it extends to all arthropods.
However, years of experimentation have shown that I can eat a few tablespoons of arthropod and only suffer a modest uvula swelling. So I decided to eat this chocolate-covered ant candy.
If a couple legs hadn’t got caught in my teeth it could just as easily have been a Krackle Bar.
This is a photo I’ve been sitting on for a while because I was expecting to do an entire entry on the Torta Bus. This is a stand that specializes in tortas that is built into a bright-orange shortbus. It’s on Cameron, right behind Capital Plaza if you’re interested. It’s proper name is Tortas Gueros, which means "Whiteboy Sandwich."
I also wasn’t going to use this because it’s such an ugly picture. It doesn’t do this amazing torta justice. If you look close, you can see that there’s crosscut hotdogs lying on top of the milanesa! Let me say that again. THERE’S HOTDOGS IN THE TORTA!!! The menu of the Torta Bus has to be seen to be believed. They have eight different varieties of milanesa!
Heck, I don’t know why I don’t eat every meal there.
