First meal on leave was suggested (ordered) by eldest daughter. Having lunch in a supermarket might sound ordinary (or bring to mind ideas of rifling through packets in the aisles) but if you’re in the Pasadena Foodland it involves sitting at a table with cloth napkins partaking of fresh Smokey Bay oysters, beautifully prepared scallops …
In Australia we call them ‘chips’. Mental Floss’ and accompanying article history French fries. Potato. Fat. Heat. Salt. Simple. Satisfying. I don’t know how they managed to overlook Australia’s contribution: Chicken Salt.
I saw something called a chocolate blackout cake: chocolate cake, chocolate pudding in the layers, and chocolate ganache coating. I made a variation with gluten free vanilla cake (fortified with vanilla pudding mix), vanilla and salted caramel pudding in the layers, and a sour-cream Caramilk ganache coating. The fruit iss raspberries. There were also Caramilk …
If you’ve got Netflix I utterly recommend Somebody Feed Phil. Featuring Phil Rosenthal, who I’d never really heard of. (He’s most famous for being a creative mind behind Everybody Loves Raymond.) It is a delight. Lots of food from a different location every episode. Phil’s complete delight in enjoying food and people who produce the …
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