I had the best pizza in years today with a so-called raspberry mousse cake.

 

It turned out that the 'mousse' was mostly icing and the bakery mislabeled their cakes.  

 

The pizza was BBQ fried chicken NY style  pizza with bacon slice drizzled with a sweet and watery BBQ sauce.

 

Delicious thin crust.  It was perfect, and really good.

 

 

 

 

90-70 pounds for the best 'afternoon teas' in london.

 

A bunch of dry looking sandwiches and upscale scone/cakes.  

 

Girls' rating: Overall the food isn't that good- the room and atmosphere is where most of the value is.

 

 

Girls:  110 pounds for a Christmas afternoon tea, a 9/10 for food and 10/10 for ambience

 

I don't know how much of the food I make can be considered unique and unusual, but I'm fine with it. Lately, I've especially enjoyed the poultry I buy here https://www.gourmetfoodstore.com/wagyu-beef-and-specialty-meats/poultry. I've noticed that it all depends on the quality of the food first and foremost, and in addition the recipe I found. By using different spices, sauces, you can achieve amazing flavor.

 

Pretty strange looking meal- 3 M stars

 

cost $15 for 2 hotdogs and one drink with tax included

 

Grey's payaya now costs $7.50 for the same deal

 

Back it the day (20 yrs ago) people could get 2 hotdogs and a drink for $2.50, and nearby there was good pizza for $3.50 (2 plain slices 1 drink). 

 

 

 

What I like about vapes and e-cigarettes is that most of their juices taste like food. I love eating good food, and it’s cool that when I vape, I get to taste something good instead of the nasty cigarette flavor. By the way, I buy all my juices from E-Cigarette Online Shop. It’s the simplest option, and they have a much larger selection than local vape shops.

I ate a buttered 20 oz steak today, very good.

 

Also last week I ate at the 'best fast food hamburger' joint Shake Shack:

 

 

two grilled to crispy patties w/ fried pickles, bacon, spicy cheese, bbq sauce- very good and fresh (9/10).  I wish more places had fried pickles.

 The only issue is that I barely tasted any beef and I don't think the patties had strong enough beef flavor.  The texture of the patties were good though.  The add-ons had so much flavor that they overwhelmed the beef.

 

The burgers I make at home have 3 times stronger beef flavor.

 

This burger cost $13 by itself with tax and has about 950 calories, which is a meal by itself.  This makes this 'fast food' burger the same price as burgers in restaurants.  I would rate the burger on par with steakhouse burgers except for the quality of the patties.

 

This is the best looking buffet I've ever seen, better than anything in the US.

what I learned (too late) from baking bread 25 times:

 

DO NOT cut the bread right after you take it out.  It causes the moisture to escape from the bread. 

 

Let the bread cool by itself and it'll come out great.  Otherwise the bread gets really dry.

I ate a Stew Leonard BBQ rib sandwich on a grinder ($13) for the first time in 21 years.  The last time I ate it was in a high school cafeteria.

 

 

It was instantly somewhat disappointing.  I was expecting them to put their leftover bbq rib meat in the sandwich and instead I got this processed pork sausage (coated in bbq sauce) shaped like a BBQ rib, just like high school lol.

 

Overall, OK- won't buy it again.

very bony fresh fish seared in pan.

 

 

Japan Eat - YouTube

 

Asian casual eats have the US completely beaten (our is overpriced and lacks quality).  It also goes to show how hard food workers in asia have to work though- and with low pay.

 

 

 

 

Now orange juice has 'shrinkflation'.

 

Also most of the store ice-cream brands are now reclassified as 'frozen dairy dessert'- meaning that they are not legally considered 'Ice cream' due to lack of milk and more than 50% of it composed of air.

 

one more sign that half the US is turning into a 3rd world country...

 

Labor day BBQ (corn, chicken, steak, fish, sausages, salad) &  had steak dinner two days in a row..

 

No ribs this year.

On 8/25/2024 at 1:19 PM, Cult Icon said:

what I learned (too late) from baking bread 25 times:

 

DO NOT cut the bread right after you take it out.  It causes the moisture to escape from the bread. 

 

Let the bread cool by itself and it'll come out great.  Otherwise the bread gets really dry.

 

+ after the bread is done, keep warm in oven for 15 minutes or so to allow the crust to harden.  The texture inside the bread will improve even further.

 

It is interesting to see how UA reviews fine dining.  It is obvious that he is a fish out of the water; and to him Western fine dining is mostly overrated and inferior to asian cuisine.