Food Thread - Inforoo Is Full Of Crab

It’s a lot better than you think. If I was rich, it would be better because of organics/lack of pesticide. I have two recipe books with over 200 different fruit/vegetable/both so you can get whatever health benefits you want. Think V8 but 100x sweeter because we don’t use salt and I sub in extra beets for tomatoes. This nurse I know works with a guy who drinks straight celery juice and he says it’s like being on dialysis. Lol. So carrots, parsley, lemon, apples, beets, cucumber, celery and ginger is what I usually process. Ridiculous beta carotene and vitamin C plus tons of minerals, flavonoids, aminos and shit. You can take vitamins but juice also makes you feel better. You can go straight apple and it’s 10x better than even best level store apple juice.

I hate V8. I did like the twist ones they had/have, but other than that, yeah... Not a fan.


Edit: I'm a huge Apple juice drinker.

Yeah those sounds great!

Waffle pretzels (tub from Menards--the definitive culinary headquarters), Orville Redenbachers butter flavored popcorn oil, dry ranch seasoning, dill weed and something else I can't remember right now. Thought we were ruining a perfectly good snack for beer drinking by marinating pretzels for two days and shaking them occasionally but I have to admit they are damn tasty. Too much popcorn oil can make me a little queasy sometimes so fingers crossed I don't regret this little food binge.

I've been spending a lot of time on the Bon Appetit Roku channel. Lots of fun, instructive videos that look achievable by normal people. Also, kids trying out food from the 1920's to today. Recommend.

“There was relevance. I mean the cat was hungry; he loved eating. It made sense to create a food concept around Garfield. You can call it destiny.”

I usually get chicken strips or the Honey BBQ Chicken Strip Sandwich. Sometimes I'll get a double Whataburger with cheese and jalapenos. The breakfasts tacos are tight.

Also gotta get onion rings over the fries. The onion rings are great for a fast food place.

I just ordered an Instant Pot.

That dinner ^^ was fire.

Bonci was calling me back today. I went downstairs at work to smoke a cigarette and walked the other way. 2 people just left my house and I resisted going with them. I feel like an addict managing a habit which is strange for me despite all else because I don’t have that mindset. It’s like this place being 4 blocks from work and open literally all day long starting at 9am is Bourdain as a devil on my shoulder telling me the words from when he went to Bonci on that episode of the layover Rome around 2012

It’s amazing. You want it. You want it bad. Your life would be so much better if you had this right now. Leave your family. Abandon your children...Touch yourself. You know you want it.

So it’s either start resisting early and try to fight the urge to taste that pizza, pretending you have some control - or just cave the fuck in and realize that despite delicious vegetarian options I’m often getting anyway, diet is going to shit. I love food. But at this price, it’s kind of a giant sin always right there tempting you. And you know you will sometimes have to give in. I proved today that I could avoid it twice. But I told the mfers going to get them some they will probably not see me decline going there again.

Update one of them texted me, “this is amazing” and the other sent a text of 2 large money bags. Haha /seen the needle and the damage done...

Do you ever go out to eat and get something so good you think about it a few days later?

I had a stuffed chicken wing from a Thai restaurant on Friday and I'm thinking about it Monday morning. A boneless 1/4 chicken with sausage/rice/curry mix stuffed inside and fried. So delicious.

Yeah on remembering for a while.

Been in Pensacola for a couple of days and managed to go to Craft Bakery twice, Restaurant Iron once and George once. I probably put on 10 pounds. Iron is a little different. I think the old sous chef left, and the old pastry chef got promoted. Food was great as always but lacked the artistic plating they used to have. I had these stupid fried chicken skin cracklings. I expected a couple but you got a massive amount. That came with pickled mirliton and house hot sauce. Then I got the prime 24 oz ribeye with black garlic butter and a Mississippi White Sweet potato (which I didn’t know existed) with brûlée’d sugar and almond butter. Damn that shit was good.

Oh hell yea that cobbler looks delicious.

Additionally, I went to Maypop with M/M Jabco the other night before the GY!BE concert. It's probably the best meal I've had in a couple of years. We got 2 appetizers, bread service and then 3 entrees we ate family style before knocking back some Vietnamese Iced Coffee and deserts.

Maypop is a little hard to classify. It's Chef Gulotta who used to be chef de cuisine at Restaurant August which is probably the best restaurant in the city. He left a few years ago to open MoPho which is more Asian inspired since that's what he likes to cook. Maypop is kind of a mismash of different culinary techniques with heavy emphasis on umami influences. They have jars of pretty much everything you can imagine pickling and fermenting on shelves. Everything's got that little bonus touch that is pretty rare to find outside of strictly Asian foods.

For apps we had the roasted covey rise shishito peppers with malted brown butter, goat cheese, smoked eggplant masala and pickled plums along with the Maypop Chili Crab which features LA blue crab claws, roasted red pepper, fermented black beans and coconut bao buns



The crab claws in that pepper broth may be the best I've ever had.

Bread Service consisted of annatto sesame rolls with coconut butter and shellfish pepper jam. Bomb.

Entrees were:

1) Garlic Chive crusted pork roulade with rye flower cavatelli pasta with peach and plum salsa fresca and piave vecchio cheese.

2) Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder Char Siu in Roasted Plum Glaze with peach, tomato and smoked mushroom xo, olive and almond fried rice

3) Seafood pot in some orange coconut milk sauce that had some shrimp, scallops and other goodies up in that bish.

For dessert, we got the Maypop Tarte which was passionfruit custard, gingersnap crust, five spice meringue and the Dark Chocolate Cremeux which consisted of passionfruit caramel, candied olive (!), cherry, and goat cheese gelato. Both were also pretty f'n excellent. I'd recommend that place to anyone.