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Roasted Garlic GravyDecember 26 2008

My wife is a vegetarian and holiday dinner’s usually suck for her. Her sister in-law isn’t the wisest and as a result she ends up with fucking mashed potatoes, corn and shitty mushroom gravy out of a can. This year we didn’t want to visit anyone for this bullshit jesus day(I’m trying to get that shit out of my life completely) instead we stayed home and I decided to boss up with a vegetarian meal. In doing so I found a recipe for some roasted garlic gravy and tried it. I was kind of amazed at myself at how well this turned out.

take some garlic cloves, drizzle with olive oil and double wrap tightly in foil and roast at 400 for 45 minutes

unwrap that shit

put in bowl and puree

melt 5 tablespoons of butter, then take the garlic puree and 1/3 cup of flour and mix that shit.  Then slowly add vegetable stock and wisk

simmer for 3 minutes.

These Sherry Vinegar and Molasses Glazed Carrots were the knock too. I thought they might be hella sweet, especially considering I u

PASTELES DE PICADILLODecember 19 2008

Today I ran into an old lady at 19th and Mission selling pasteles and papusas out of her little shopping cart. I copped two pasteles for 2 bucks. These are kind of like empanadas, hell some people probably call them that. I’m not all up on my central american shit but whatever basically it’s a fried tube of awesome filled with carnitas and vegetables, sold in a sandwich bag with a handful of pickled cabbage and carrots. I’ve had these a few times at El Savodorian restaurants, they are fucking banging. Some yucatan/mayan restuarants make somethings similar, just kind of depends on who is doing the cooking. I wanted to cop some of this lady’s papusas but I didn’t have time for that shit. If you see these cop, they are tasty as fuck.

      

Mission Street FoodDecember 13 2008

Last thursday I finally made it out to Mission Street Food and it was fucking amazing. These dudes are fucking killing the game right now.

Mission Street Food is this dope project that Anthony Myint has been doing. It started with them renting one of the Antojitos San Miguel street carts every Thursday and slanging flatbread sandwiches topped with king trumpet mushroom, triple-fried potatoes, garlic confit, scallion sour cream or pork belly, jicama, pickled jalapeno and cilantro aioli. The food is super dope and hella cheap, it’s fucking brilliant and no bullshit pretentious shit to any of it. Just great food. The lines at the cart were getting long so they moved it indoors. Every Thursday they now take over Lung Shan on Mission and 18th.

Last week I found out that Ryan Farr was the guest chef this week and if you’ve seen dude’s blog you know the shit is not a game. I’d been telling myself to go but after seeing the menu I knew I had to man up. Fuck just look at this shit:

Menu:
Chicharrones and Spicy Dip 3.50
Honey Baked Ham and Pork Terrine, Sauerkraut, Mustard, Celery and Date Chut

Tamale DayDecember 7 2008

Oh man I don’t give a fuck about the holidays. Christmas is worthless jesus shit for kids, thanksgiving is a celebration of bullshit too. This time of year just sucks because my tv wants to sell me on snowglobes full of lies. The only thing I actually like about the holidays is fucking Tamale Day, it’s the best shit in the world. I don’t know how you can go wrong with it. Get your friends together, a lot of beer, masa and multiple tubs of pork fat. How can that not be a success?

This is the 5th tamale day we’ve done and I think we’ve got the game on lock right now. Really if you’re trying to fuck with my tamale skills you’re gonna get served like the bitch you are. This year we had some ridiculous shit going down too.

Once again I did a beef filling this year, Elias handled his red pork, Lydia did her citrus pork and Miro came through with the chile verde chicken. Swayzee brought his sweet potato and black bean filling which is probably the best thing we’ve done for veggie tamales. Miro also brought his sauces again this year which was nice, those were missing last year due to his monthly colds. This year we decided to experiment a little so Lydia came up with the idea to flavor some masa with smoked jalapenos and bacon then use pepper jack che

I will explain more laterDecember 7 2008

8 quarts of lard, 35 lbs of masa, and hella beer

12 hours later this happened

more about “Deep Fried Tamales 2 on Vimeo“, posted with vodpod

I don’t know what the fuck suburban bitch ass tamale parties are like but we go hard! B.cause came through with the all Willie D set just to make it more family oriented. These videos are the result of all day drinking, shit talking and getting juiced on hardcore rap music.

I also ran into this chump with his bucket of tamales. I told him he didn’t know shit about getting that tamale money.