Food Blog Round-Up
Before we get started this week, we have to break from a completely reporter, "these are the blogs that were" voice to the voice of an actual food blogger. Someone with very exciting, very bad for you, very guilty pleasure type news. The type that can get you into drunken, one-in-the-morning type trouble. "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle" type trouble. When we first moved to the Bay Area In 'N Out burger joints were still a rarity. In the past few years they've been dotting up more and more, which we love. Barney's is great and all, but sometimes you don't need 1/3 a pound of meat, sometimes you just need a double-double animal style. And there's the key: animal style. Now, for those of you who don't know animal style, don't feel so bad, it's not not on their menu. (A point Mighty Foods talks about in regards to Jamba Juice. This website goes into more detail on In 'N Out's items.) But, like Mr. Pibb and Red Vines, animal style is crazy delicious. Animal style burgers come with lettuce, tomato, extra spread, pickles, grilled onions, and mustard fried into the patty. Now, here's the kicker --which close readers of that last link will have no doubt already picked up on: You can get animal style applied to your fries. You don't get pickle and mustard, but you do get cheese, grilled onions and extra of the secret sauce. We can't recommend animal style fries highly enough. Everything that is bad and bad for you, but tastes so right. They will be the best fries you've ever eaten. Even better than the garlic fries down at the ballpark. (Which suckafree doesn't like anyways.) Go, go now, and feel the power of the dark side.
And when you're back, feel the summer love. We were happy to find Rainer cherries in the produce section this week, and apparently we weren't the only ones. Cherries are perfect snacking food, with a built-in deterrent: the pit. You can't eat them in unhealthy quantities, because the pit makes you slow down. Or at least it makes us slow down, but that may just be because we don't know how to work our pitter and are afraid of hurting our dental work. But there's more summer fruit out there, even if it is sometimes slightly disgusting. Which we thought gazpacho was, at first. Cold tomato soup? No thanks. And then we were educated. Gazpacho is as perfect as cherries, just in a different, saltier way. And for some people, summer never starts until after the spring cleaning.
Of course, not everyone is compelled to keep an index of everything they've found in their pantry, but we don't mind, it makes for great reading! So why not print all your blog posts in one great big recipe book? 101 Cookbooks has a very educational post on self-publishing both in print and in digital editions, and just how phenomenally easy and cheap its become. It's not like you're not writing good stories anyways, right? But if you're not ready to take the plunge, let these two posts guide you through some good reading about food.
Pic taken from Two Tasty Ladies.
