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Roasted Garlic Gravy

My wife is a vegetarian and holiday dinner’s usually suck for her. Her sister in-law isn’t the wisest and as a result she ends up with mashed potatoes, corn and shitty mushroom gravy out of a can. This year we didn’t want to visit anyone (I’m trying to get that out of my life completely) instead we stayed home and I decided to boss up with a vegetarian meal. In doing so I found a recipe for some roasted garlic gravy and tried it. I was kind of amazed at myself at how well this turned out.

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take some garlic cloves, drizzle with olive oil and double wrap tightly in foil and roast at 400 for 45 minutes

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put in bowl and puree

melt 5 tablespoons of butter, then take the garlic puree and 1/3 cup of flour and mix that shit. Then slowly add vegetable stock and wisk

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simmer for 3 minutes.

These Sherry Vinegar and Molasses Glazed Carrots were the knock too. I thought they might be hella sweet, especially considering I used maple syrup instead of molasses but man these went hard.

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I also made some wild rice stuffing and salmon over spinach. Thank god my wife eats fish.

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Pasteles de Picadillo

Today I ran into an old lady at 19th and Mission selling pasteles and papusas out of her little shopping cart. I copped two pasteles for 2 bucks. These are kind of like empanadas, hell some people probably call them that. I’m not all up on my central American shit but whatever basically it’s a fried tube of awesome filled with carnitas and vegetables, sold in a sandwich bag with a handful of pickled cabbage and carrots. I’ve had these a few times at El Savodorian restaurants, they are fucking banging. Some yucatan/mayan restaurants make somethings similar, just kind of depends on who is doing the cooking. I wanted to cop some of this lady’s papusas but I didn’t have time for that shit. If you see these cop, they are tasty as fuck.

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Tamale Day

This time of year just sucks because my TV wants to sell me on snowglobes full of lies. The only thing I actually like about the holidays is the Tamale Day, it’s the best in the world. I don’t know how you can go wrong with it. Get your friends together, a lot of beer, masa and multiple tubs of pork fat. How can that not be a success?

This is the 5th tamale day we’ve done and I think we’ve got the game on lock right now. Really if you’re trying to eat with my tamale skills you’re gonna get served like the bitch you are. This year we had some ridiculous shit going down too.

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Once again I did a beef filling this year, Elias handled his red pork, Lydia did her citrus pork and Miro came through with the chile verde chicken. Swayzee brought his sweet potato and black bean filling which is probably the best thing we’ve done for veggie tamales. Miro also brought his sauces again this year which was nice, those were missing last year due to his monthly colds. This year we decided to experiment a little so Lydia came up with the idea to flavor some masa with smoked jalapenos and bacon then use pepper jack cheese as the filling. Those joints were crazy delicious. Straight up amazing.

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I had an idea with some chicharron tamales, it was kind of scary. I figured that all the steaming would break down the chicharron and make it super tender. I still wanted to pair it with something and when I remembered I had some smoked gouda chilling in my fridge I decided that it was gonna be on as fuck. When we pulled them out of the steamer and I knew I was fucking brilliant for making that move, those joints were my favorite ones. With some of miro’s pipian sauce the shit as game over. I should have gotten some photos of them but by the time I thought to grab my camera they were all eaten. Next year I’ll have to make more. More

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BloodyMaryDay

So a day late and a dollar short as usual, but yesterday was National Bloody Mary Day. Fortunately, I got the jump on these TGIF douche-bags and celebrated a week earlier at a relatively new spot – Logan @ the Heights

Not the greatest restaurant out there, but their bloody menu is unreal. After a strait up greygoose, hot bloody mix, and applewood smoked bacon pint at the bar, our table was ready and I was in good enough spirits to go all out on my next round. Behold my favorite new bloody.

Grey Goose, crab, shrimp, bacon, clamato, worschestershire, tabasco, horseradish, pickle, celery, olive, and lime. Nuff said.

Warning – multiple bloodies will just cause you to start ordering “real” mixed drinks at 11 am, which in turn may or may not become an afternoon of Wii bowling coupled with a case of beer.

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The Money Maker

The Money Maker

Discovered a new drink over at the 3rd Street Liquor Store on Saturday (3rd and Newcomb if you want to make a visit). For those of you who do not understand why these little bottles of alcohol are packaged up in sandwich bags I suggest you read this post I did on my own blog because I’m not going to bother explaining all that shit right now. Anyways we copped a few of these new joints. The first of which is posted above, it is known as The Money Maker and obviously it’s going to fuck you up. The ingredients are as follows:

1 Green Apple Smirnoff Ice
2 Smirnoff Apple Twists
1 Bicardi Big Apple
1 Tanguaray

Charlies in the Fillmore has the Bad Apple 2, it’s similar but with a wine cooler. I’m not a fan of these apple joints, they taste like shitty old jolly ranchers and alcohol. Fuck that shit I’m not a goddamn 14 year old girl. I don’t want to drink candy. The Cutty Bang is still by far my favorite of any of these drinks. That shit is classic.

There is also a drink called The Obama. At the moment I don’t have a decent photo but it’s coming soon.

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