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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Pictures of You
Hungarian sausage
From Fetzer Sausages at the Beaverton Farmers Market.
Yelp FTL
For some reason I ended up at Yelp and ran across this review:
(1-star rating from “Wil. C”): I would have to concur Mindy C. below, this place is NOT authentic. When stepping inside just take a look across the room, when none of your customers are asian that is a red flag right there. Would you consider an Italian restaurant with all Asian customers authentic?
Better beer lobbyists, please
California Pot Initiative Opposed By Beer Industry. (Huff Post)
The California Beer & Beverage Distributors is spending money in the state to oppose a marijuana legalization proposition on the ballot in November, according to records filed with the California Secretary of State. The beer sellers are the first competitors of marijuana to officially enter the debate; backers of the initiative are closely watching liquor and wine dealers and the pharmaceutical industry to see if they enter the debate in the remaining weeks.
The opposition to pot among beer makers, however, is not unanimous among the CBBD’s membership. Sierra Nevada and Stone Brewing Co., microbrews that began in California but have become popular national brands, both lashed out at the CBBD after news of the distributor’s donation was reported on Celebstoner.com, a popular website focusing on marijuana-related news, and Alternet.com.
I would have to think those who enjoy Sierra Nevada and Stone and the bud/or-want-to-see-it-legalized probably share a large intersection of a Venn diagram.
Red Fang
Summer Grilling Series: Hot wings and collective bargaining agreements
The past weekend presented the perfect confluence of two very special things: the tail-end of summer, and the first weekend of NFL football. In these here United States, such fleeting moments of serendipitous folly are captured with a celebratory act that often involves the consumption of recently separated wings from a domestic chicken.
The following recipe involves a take on your archetypical “hot” wings, except using Sriracha, aka “hot cock sauce”, instead of the Frank’s or similar Louisiana-based hot sauce concoction usually associated with Buffalo-style hot wings. Also, these are grilled.
If you ask me if they are better…well, I’m not sure if I can tell you that. Normally, “Buffalo” wings are deep fried and then tossed in an elixir of melted butter/margarine and Louisiana hot sauce, and then served with a dipping side of rich, white, cheese-based dressing and ancillary-ish celery sticks (that most racist American males discard faster than a crack whore baby). Is this “good”? Well, that’s up to your own particular sliding scale of taste. But it’s difficult to “refudiate” a concept so quintessentially American. That would be like refusing to dance to Tone Loc’s “Funky Cold Medina” at your cousin’s wedding.
But these grilled wings are different — the operative difference being that the “Buffalo” seasoning happens prior to grilling. This has the added benefit, as well, of being more healthy, but I don’t know if you can combine poultry skin and margarine and ever call it healthy by any extent of the imagination, even if you apply the saucing prior to finishing on the grill. That would be akin to asserting Michael Jackson as a doting father because he left a will.
Grilled Sriracha Hot Wings
- A couple pounds of chicken wings
- Equal parts: melted butter (or margarine) and Sriracha sauce
- Optional: a neutral “reddening” agent like mild paprika or beet powder
Pour that nasty butter and chili sauce (and reddening) mixture over the wings and marinade for 4 hours. Get your charcoal Weber going in the backyard.
Grill those bastages.
Eat, drink beer, and experience the deterioration of American sport.
Close Lobsters
Oxford Collapse
Summer Griling Series: Golden trout
Essentially duplicated the garden herbs/olive oil/acid marinade from my earlier post, here’s a golden trout, stuffed and rubbed with salt, pepper, herbs and lemon slices, and dusted with smoked paprika.
Grill it up. Ain’t no thing.
And while you’re at it, splash some olive oil onto some delicious zucchini squash and grill that up too. Always a summer crowd pleaser.
New PDX eats
6 Hot New East Portland Eateries. Jen has a fantastic rundown of some great new options on Portland’s eastside.