brought the bbq to the park, stood out there all day jamming slayer and OJ Da Juiceman. Once enough people asked we started selling joints for 5 bucks. The pork was a little on the under cause I was pushing it and still need to figure out smoking with this new grill, it was my first time using it, should have ran it hotter but whatever shit was cool. I had 4 pieces of shoulder, two from whole foods and two from food co, food co turned out better. fuck that fancy shit, go with your hood butcher and get hooked up propers.

Next time I do this it’s going to be even better, I’m going to bang it out for reals.

Dude: “Do you guys want to barter for weed?”

Me: “Nah man I don’t smoke weed, I don’t need to be bored.”

dude came by later and told us that the pork was “dank like my nugs”

good times

Got my hands on a grill so I’ve decided to bring it to Dolores park, if you want to fuck with it roll through. I’ll be there all fucking day tomorrow (7/3/09) smoking some pork shoulder and blasting my boombox. I’m trying to be able to serve food by 3 or 4. We’ll see what up though, I’m sure I’ll be lagging a bit. Bringing me beers and I’ll give you some food. If a lot of people I don’t know start asking for food maybe I’ll start slanging these joints for some paper but so far the plan as of now is shit for free with a tip jar or something. Anyways fuck with your boy cause I’m gonna be doing the damn thing at the park.

Amy goes on a taco crawl through the east bay

My wife just put me up on these dudes We Eatin, they got a few youtube joints. This video is from their stop at Papalote with the homie Mr. E. One of the first dudes I met when I came to SF and dude was doing parties with quesadillas and djs, haven’t seen dude in a minute but he’s cool as shit. Anyways We Eatin is a couple of SBC dj dudes going around to spots in the bay and talking to cameras. They aren’t really talking all that much about the actual food but it’s amusing. In the phat philly one dude tells you they are on yelp like it’s suppose to be impressive, that’s like trying to brag about a myspace page. Whatever though the r&b slow motion montage is funny shit so that’s cool and jadakiss even did a drop for these dudes. Maybe Grocery can get a drop from nelly or something and we can battle these dudes. Peep game

Last saturday I woke up hungover, jumped on my bike and went to  a sausage class put on by Ryan Farr. I bought that poster after the class where I saw these things:

Took home a few days worth of Chicken Beer Sausage, Chili & Fennel Pork Sausage and a Roasted Garlic & Spring Onion Beef Sausage. I am now in need of a sausage stuffer at home.

This video has nothing to do with any of this but it’s easily my favorite posse cut of all time so fuck it, I’ve got it on repeat and you should too.

A late night trip to Waffle House after our monthly homebrew club meeting resulted in this masterpiece. 

My homie Dave wanted biscuits and gravy and a cheeseburger, then decided it was probably a good idea to combine everything he liked about both into one hilarious sandwich.  I’m not going to explain whats on this shit because the picture speaks for itself.

LOL at the tomato.  I suggested adding the pickle and was given the “are you fucking serious” look.  Whatever though I would’ve included that shit and maybe some mustard or something.

I just had some Bert’s chili and half a bottle of Tabasco sauce plus longer than normal toilet time this morning.  Thanks Waffle House!

We’re throwing down on Memorial Day and need some ideas for shit to fry.  A turkey fryer will be on premises while we’re brewing up the long-awaited malt liquor.   We’ll be looking for ideas on objects to fry and what to batter them with.  The best/viable concepts will be selected and I’ll post pics and results here.

I’d heard about Kitchenette from the internets a couple of times. It’s a spot out in the dogpatch, south of Mission Bay were I go a lot of times for work. As a result I was curious, then yesterday I saw their lunch menu for today:

Dogpatch Menu: Tuesday 05/12

beer & orange braised pork torta organic pinto bean spread, avocado, queso fresco, pickled spring onions, cilantro, jalapeno…pickle jar cauliflower $8.50

long cooked broccoli baguette fromage blanc spring onion olivada $6.50

star route farms little gems cucumbers, roasted peppers, croutons $5.-

4505’s spicy chicharrones $3.-

maple bacon snickerdoodles $1.-

strawberry rhubarb refresher $2.-

I am a fan of tortas so it was going down. Rolled down there around 11:45 and saw a couple off people standing in front of a loading dock waiting. The setup isn’t anything fancy you walk up to the loading dock, order your shit and wait. They got some benches so you can chill there and eat or get it to go. I rode my bike down there so I ate on the bench. I ordered the torta, chicharrones, maple bacon snickerdoodle, and a strawberry rhubarb drink. I got the chicharrones, snickerdoodle and drink first. Kicked it on the bench while I waited for the torta.

I’ve had these 4505 chicharrones before and you should cop if you see them, a little bit of spice with that awesome crunch of fried cracklins, great stuff. The snickerdoodle was cool, I usually don’t fuck with cookies because I think that shit’s for kids. Regardless it was cool, not overly sweet with hints of bacon, well until I got to the middle and bit into the small piece of bacon in the center. That was kind of weird, not foul or anything just odd eating a cookie with a piece of bacon.

Then they brought out the torta with the pickled cauliflower on the side, that shit was dope. It was carrots, onions and a chunk of bayleaf sitting in the bottom that I got to spit out.  The pickle juice in there was good. The torta itself was looking kind of thin though, when I saw it wrapped up I started thinking “oh no these motherfuckers are making bitchass subway sandwiches.” Turns out they were just using baguettes.

I’m used to big fat tortas so a thin one had me in a panic for a minute, then I tasted it. My worries subsided as I chewed on super tender tasty bits of fatty pork. Their avocados with the pinto bean spread was nice and tasty, shitty tortas usually suffer from overwhelmingly bland shitty beans, this did not. The sandwich could have used more spice though, but that’s just me. I should have brought hot sauce.

Anyways if you’re out in the Dogpatch you should go fuck with this spot, the menu changes everyday, no line so it’s easier than trying to stuff your face with fried chicken at Hard Knox. They update their site almost everyday and you can holler at their twitter too. Their only open from 11:30am to 1:30pm so you can’t dick around too much, just get your shit and eat.

I was checking the homie Matt Sonzala’s photos from Devin The Dude’s European tour when I saw this

now I don’t know who makes this, from the signage it looks like it might be some German Burger King shit. You figure Germans wouldn’t care about putting fucking nachos in a burger and calling in the fucking Pinata. It’s like they put all the bullshit that is Cinco De Mayo into a burger for pasty german youth. Whatever though, I guess it’s not that much of a stretch from chips in your sandwich.

If anyone has ever consumed this let me know how shitty german nacho burgers are because it sounds like a recipe for sucks.

Sunday I spent the afternoon watching this pig lose a battle to man with a knife. Ryan Farr and the folks over at Coffee bar set up this cutesy dinner where for 35 bucks you could watch him work the pig and eat it. I think you got some drinks or some shit too but I don’t fuck with old shitty grape juice. I hollered at some Big Daddy IPAs and watched him do his thing. At some point I told them to save me the eye just because that’s what my grandfather always yelled out when there was fish around. When the head came back from the grill they offered it up, it wasn’t too crazy. I was expecting it to be juicy and salty but it felt like really tender cartilage and flavor wise it was kind of lacking.  It wasn’t bad or anything, but the texture was more interesting than the flavor. When Ryan was breaking down the leg he offered up some bits of the skin, super crispy and that was the best thing I’d eaten that day.

The food was served up like a buffet, with a variety of cuts, some salad, cheese, and rolls. I think there was a potato salad in there too but I didn’t fuck with it. I got some pieces of leg, cheek, tenderloin wrapped in pork belly and a bunch of other cuts that I’m not sure what they were. It was dope though because a good opportunity to experience all the different things pigs can do. Fuck some swine flu made for TV bullshit, pork is amazing. The only thing that was kind of lacking was just the set up of the whole thing. It was hard to hear Ryan just because the place has these high ceilings, there was a dj playing down tempo stuff (he dropped some liquid swords on the random though). The acoustics of the spot though aren’t that big of a deal, just get a Sham Wow headset and you’re good. It was totally worth it and I definitely want to take a butchering class now.

tenderloin wrapped in pork belly

home made corndogs, these were the knock

long ass chicharron, these were super tasty. Even more flavorful that the packaged ones he makes too.

fuck now I want to bbq