thursday night smackdown

A Trip Through Time and Space

10.27.08

Man, I wish I lived in Seattle. pork | (4)
Can you deny that tagline? We should all be ashamed that we didn't think of this* first ourselves. Okay, maybe Bittman thought of it, but is he mass-marketing it? And is he launching it with a wrestling match between an enormous slice of bacon and a similarly-sized jar of mayo? I THINK NOT. Please, someone in or near Seattle, go to this. Go, and take photographs. Many photographs, in glorious, bacon-y color. We must live vicariously through you. *Most wonderful irony EVER: It's kosher. Keep going... Related posts:Not-Thursday Night Smackdown: When am I? There’d better be some gunshots or an explosion on... Related ...

Tagged: bacon, food, mayonnaise, sanwich, spread
09.08.08

Cheap Ass Monday: The garlic mayo goes BLAT. cheap ass, condiments, dips | (21)
You are totally jealous of my sandwich, admit it. Ryan, my haircut-needing nephew, is picking up lots of culinary-speak during his tenure at The Left Bank. No longer do we "fry that shit up in a pan" or "nuke the hell out of" anything; we use proper classical Fronsh terminology. For example, when microwaving the Velveeta with the Ro-Tel, I would instruct him to "nukez l'enfer hors de ce produit que reseembler á fromage mais non est fromage."* The word of the week is "confit" and it's relation, "confiture," which has replaced the more familiar but less ...

Tagged: blt, cheap, cheap ass, condiments, cooking, cuisine, dips, food, mayonnaise, sandwich