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6.27.2005
1:11 PM >> Insanely Spicy Red Hot Mexican Chicken Faux TB Crunchwrap


Having been overall disappointed in T-Bell's Crunchwrap Supreme I decided to go it on my own. The result was a 7.59 personal food log rating. In comparing it to TB's I won. I fixed the problems that I experienced with TB's Crunchwrap, mainly the ingredient distribution inconsistancy and bland tortilla taste.

To start with I first toasted my tortilla in a skillet. I got the skillet hot, sprayed in a little vegetable oil, added some pepper and cilantro, and then toasted it a couple of minutes a side. Removing from the skillet I got to work on the creation.

The first layer contained chopped iceberg lettuce and fresh corn. Drisseled over top was some of the saucey part of my recent spicy chicken stew (see description of Damian's Insanely Spicy Red Hot Mexican Chicken Stew below) that I made in the crock pot.

Then the crunch layer. This was some round corn hardshell tortillas that I purchased at the grocery store for an amazing price. Just guessing I would say I got about 50 shells for $1.39.

Nextly I scooped my spicy chicken stew onto the hard crunchy shell. I then folded the tortilla in half and let it cook a couple of minutes on each side in skillet.

That was it. Clearly my preparation and taste exceeded that which I experienced at Taco Bell. So I am the winner. However, TB is able to mass produce these things, and have a huge marketing budget behind them, and they actually manage a nicely sized profit I am sure. So in that sense I lose.
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Damian's Insanely Spicy Red Hot Mexican Chicken Stew

This is the spiciest thing I have ever made. Well, actually the habenero cream cheese poppers at Adam's bachelor party were pretty spicey. But this ranks with those.) Chopped celerey, Vidalia onion, green peppers, stewed tomatoes, whole chipotle peppers in adobo sauce (that means seeds and all folks), a series of spices like cayenne pepper, crushed red pepper, pepper pepper, garlic powder, salt, and bay leaves (2), and then two breasts of chicken. Served in a bowl with half a tortilla shell that was toasted in the oven using a little vegtable spray, lemon juice squirt, and pepper (regular pepper pepper). Recommended that some device is nearby to put out the heat, like beer, chips, estinquisher -- whatever you normally use. Oh, yeah, this was a crock creation.


 
6.25.2005
11:19 AM >> Banana Cream Mango Plum Soy Nut Smootie

No joke. I just made a Banana Cream Mango Plum Soy Nut Smootie, which included 1 Banana Cream Pie yogurt, mango nectar, 6-7 dried Cherry Essence Plums, and 12 - 15 soy nuts for crunch. It's actually pretty good.


 
1:22 AM >> Taco Bell's Crunchwrap Supreme

Ok, tonight for din-din I had the Crunchwrap Supreme. Here are my thoughts:

First off, I cut the thing in half using T-bells sub par cutlery (sporks are a grand idea but they need to use a higher grade plastic). I wanted to try it standard and then with T-bell Fire sauce.

Trying it without the sauce I found the CWS to be rather bland. There was just too much of a boring tortilla taste and i didn't get enough of the innards. The extra crunch texture of the hard tortilla shell which is inside the creation was excellent.

Trying it with the Fire sauce smeared on the outside of the wrap was much much better. It really gave a nice spark to the tortilla wrap.

There are also two ways that I tried eating this thing. I don't know if they show people eating it in the commercials. Here's how I attacked the thing. One the half without the sauce I just picked it up and ate it like a piece of pizza or a sandwich. That worked well. Of course I felt slightly jipped on how much insides of the wrap I was given but I think the pizza/sandwich thing can work. Now when you put sauce on the outside of the wrap it starts to get messy eating it this way. Maybe it's just because I have a beard. For the sauced up version I chose to cut it and eat it by the sporkful.

My biggest complaint of T-B is that they are inconsistent in their layering of ingredients. The sour cream is always in one area, the meat in another, the nacho cheese sauce in another, and then way too much lettuce throughout. They need to even things out so that every bite is a mixture of all these things. The section of my wrap that had a decent portion of meat and some of that nacho sauce was excellent. But it only lasted for a bite or two then i was into the sour cream heavy section of the wrap.

Rating: 6 out of 11 singing Mexicans.


 
6.22.2005
10:29 PM >> Box Office Poison


My brother Dal turns some age next Tuesday. I'm going to NY to visit him. Here's his invitation to a BBQ birthday bash. He's a photoshop genius. He created this collage invitation.

Here's the email message he sent along to friends:

Ok Kids:

Here it is!!! This is the invite to my boozey breezey birthday barbecue. The theme is Swealtering Summer Failure. Think SUNTANS and SWANDIVES.

The date is Tues, June 28th 2005 at
103 XXX Street (between YYY and ZZZ) The Party is on the rooftop but you can try buzzing 4F when you get here or call me at 555-555-5555 or Lil Matt at 777-777-7777.

Party will start at 7:30 and go till around 9:30-10:00ish

BRING BOOZE. We will have food . BRING BOOZE.

--D.D.c'est vous que j'aime


 
6.21.2005
10:33 PM >> Sweet and salty

Today at work I played a trick. I wouldn't call it a prank. Pranks are generally just on the fringe of being harmful. Full on harmful would be considered a felony and I try to steer clear of those classifications.

I simply stuck a pretzel rod into an uneaten jelly doughnut in hopes that someone would eat it and be surprised or grossed out or at the very least just have some interesting reaction to it that I could secretly laugh at.

Then I realized that it actually sounded pretty good if it was in one of the chocolate d-nuts with frosting in the middle. This might be referred to as a Bavarian creme filled, but I don't know for sure. So I grabbed a rod and stuck it into the d-nut at the filling insert point. They try and make it like a Twinkie where you don't know how the creme got inside. But this d-nut shop didn't cover there tracks very well. There was an obvious little baker's insert hole.

It was a really good combo. Sweet and salty. Speaking of. My dad always dips his tortilla chips in his Coke (diet Coke usually) at Mexican restaurants. Once I even caught him going from Coke to salsa for a second dip. I called him out on this saying that some people might not like the salsa bowl to have remnants of coke in it. I don't care, but I figured he might be at a business meeting where someone would not like the idea. I wouldn't want my dad to get fired. Not at his age or senority anyway, that would be embarrasing for him.

When my dad retires though he's told me he's going to grow his beard out. I can't wait to see that. I have a beard. But I am far from retiring. That must be a generational thought process difference thinking that you've got to not be working to have a beard. I don't think they look scruffy or unprofessional at all. Mustaches look sleazy, but beards can be worn by working men in all fields in my opinion.


 
6.16.2005
10:05 PM >> Smokey Apricot Tuna Salad on Fancy Bread




Smokey Apricot Tuna Salad on Fancy Bread

Tuna salad made with celery and sesame seeds sauteed in olive oil, balsamic vinagrette, and chipotle Tabasco, then mixed with yellow mustard, sweet relish, chopped apricot, and spices like basil, dill, pepper, and garlic powder. Served oven toasted atop a slice of fancy baked bread like you get at Macaroni Grill and sprinkled with feta cheese. Garnished with leafy part of celery stalk (as a joke, but it actually looked pretty fancy).

Rating: 7.25

NB: For the first time ever I had a raw apricot. I was really impressed with the fruit. It tasted great. It's the perfect snack size. And except for the seed, you basically eat the entire thing. How fun! I love apricots now. So I bought some at the Super Wal-Mart near buy and got the crazy idea that it would go well in a tuna salad mixture. I was right. I bet they'd also be good in cereal. I'll prolly try that in a couple of days.


 
9:49 PM >> Guanabana Nectar




Guanabana Nectar
what is that? According to my brother:

"It [the guanabana] looks like a mix between a pear and a blow fish. It's the only fruit I've seen that has a self defense mechanism. It must be really good."

Truer words, Dusty. Truer words. I bought this stuff for two reasons. 1) I've been making a lot of smoothies lately and this fruit nectar stuff works great in smoothies. 2) I love trying new fruits. Grocery stores these days are filled with new exotic and wierd fruits that I don't remember being there when I was a kid.

So when I saw this bottle of guanabana for 99 cents I couldn't resist. I thought it would go excellently with some frozen mixed berries and banana yogurt, which is incidentally the way to a kick ass smoothie.

Three ingredients is all you need. You need to experiment with the portions but yogurt, frozen fruit, and fruit nectar is the recipe for excellence in smoothies.

Guanabana what a crazy looking fruit. Man!

NOTE: Once again my kitchen appliances make it on to the Internet. That's the bottom shelf of my fridge just above the crisper.


 
6.10.2005
10:22 PM >> Silly sole

I love this comment on a link I included on a recent blog. How funny:

"Generally all flounders and halibuts are called soles except in Europe, they are all important food fishes."

I mean food fishes what the heck is that exactly. And Europe? Hello. Why do they classify their fishes differently. And I thought fish was plural, not fishes.


 
6.09.2005
10:59 PM >> Whizzing

Aldous Huxley writes on the whirlwind of youth:

"...This whizzing is a mere mania, a sort of intoxicant, exciting and begetting oblivion..."


 
6.02.2005
10:11 PM >> Today's Lament



 
4:39 AM >> Big, Tripl-Thick Extra Heavy Milk Shakes


Big, Tripl-Thick Extra Heavy Milk Shakes


 
6.01.2005
8:08 PM >>

This was my attitude all day >>



No, I was not in a whorehouse.


 
9:00 AM >> half a days worth of rambling

9.45AM. as i see it. who am i kidding i see nothing. i'm not blind. i'm just not seeing. in the mind-block not seeing way. on top of that i am awkward at the helm. the swells make me teeter. only teeter. no totter. and teeter without tottering is not healthy. it spoils the soul. it wets the deck. there's just nothing, not a thing worse than a wet deck. the deck gets wet and seeps into the soul. then you got a soggy soul. is there a bright side. yes. there is. always there is. water evaporates. if you don't know there's a whole cycle to water and its workings on this planet. it drops, it evaporates, it gets too heavy for the atmosphere to handle and then it falls again. 10.15AM. candy and cookies are good, you know. but pizza is better. and milkshakes. man i haven't had a milkshake or a root beer float in a long time. i used to eat a coke float per day back when i was a kid. i'm not really a kid anymore in age. i am 28. one of my favorite things that people think is totally disgusting is this. you go to mcdonald's. you order a filet o' fish sandwich. you order a strawberry shake. you dip the sandwich into the shake. and if you really can't stomach the submersion of the fish into the shake the combo alone is awesome. they compliment each other so well. try it. so while on the subject of the filet o'fish. i recommend getting it with a tomato. it's really much better that way. like the coke float i haven't had the fof/shake combo in ages. 11.17AM. did i mention that half of my t-shirt wardrobe is made up of freebies. all the time i am getting free t-shirts. a lot of them come from bars or restaurants. my fashion in general is composed of things that i got for free or for cheap. i generally always remember about how much i paid for certain items. it's how i identify with my style. or something. this weekend i got a really nice button down dress shirt for $7, a $20 pair of sweet
nubuck slip-on mocs, and (though i'd never wear it) a package of 700 coffee filters for $2.18. recently i used the last of my filters and had to leave my roomates a note of apology. it's fine because we also have a coffee pod system. i told them they could use the pod system at no extra charge. kidding. i don't charge my roomates for use of the pod system. it's really cool. everyone should have on. no then on the subject of coffee. just last night i went to the gevalia web site becuase i heard that they had a new sweet offer. they did. so i got out the c-card and ordered up. basically you sign up for their program where they ship you coffee every 6 weeks and you get a stainless steel 12 cup coffee maker and a travel mug. you just have to be in the program for one shipments worth which cost less than $20. so i get a couple pounds of coffee (peaberry and costa rican blends), the coffee maker, and the travel mug. as long as i get out of the program early enough my only commitment it the less than $20 that i paid. no that is a bargain. a real bargain. a cheap like my dad who used to only take me and my brothers to $1 movies back in the 80s style cheap. i was quite proud of the purchase. 1.05AM. going to lunch. going to lunch.

other note of interest: india mcsandwich


 
 
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