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This is not a complaint blog. It's an observation and a question. I live near Pittsburgh, PA. On the 4th of July my son went to the store to pick up a few dinner items. I rarely have a craving for hotdogs, but that's what I wanted to make for our Independence day dinner. As my son was in town I asked him to pick up a few things, including hot dog relish which is like a finely diced sweet pickle with mustard. No hot dog relish to be found. In fact he'd never heard of it. As I said we rarely dine on hotdogs. They had regular sweet relish. That's it. I thought surely he must have failed to look properly. After the holiday I went to the store and no hot dog relish to be found. Apparently it's not a thing in the Pittsburgh area. Days later I still can't get over it. Yes, absolutely there are far greater (and real) problems in the world than the fact that people where I live fail to recognize the awesomeness of hot dog relish. To be honest, I usually prefer to drown my dogs with yellow mustard and diced raw onions.

Anywhoo...that got me thinking. In the hotdog-eating world, what is the standard of excellence of toppings? Anyone who mentions ketchup gets ignored.

Apparently, they are growing on trees !

As advertised on eBay - Presenting the Vietnamese Milk Melons



On sale on ebay ! However, before you rush your money in guys, it's a bit of a hoax.
The melons don't actually look anything like the picture posted on ebay.

Here's an actual video of people picking the 'melons'.

I was shocked to read on the second page of Wall Street Today to find that for:

"every American about 429 pounds of food was wasted in 2010"

Now this is terrible. United Nations reported that about 87 percent of the world live in poverty, devastation and hunger and the first and second world are so wasteful.

I have personally taught my children not to be joining this bad habit of being insensitive to wasting food.

With the abundant Rat and Mouse blogs of late I thought I would share some of my favorite recipes for cooking them.
Bandwagon Mouse

Ingredients:-
6 freshly killed mice. (Substitute rats if you have them)
1 large onion, finely chopped.
1 box of tic tac’s. (Scampi fries or mint flavor)
Selection of cookies
250g Pirate Arrrs.
1 table spoon of lols.
Garlic, ginger & turmeric to taste.

Wash the mice in boiling water to remove the fleas and other things in their fur, remove the innards and leave to soak in fresh or cubed chicken stock.

Heat up a cast iron pan and add soulmate oil or olive oil if soulmate is not available, add the onions, ginger and garlic, a spoon of turmeric and Saute until the onions are soft, add the mice to the pan and cook on both sides until the fur is blizzard's, add the lols, the tic tacs and simmer for 2 valentines.

Serve on a bed of Pirate Arrrs and garnish with the cookies.

Bon appetit!

With the exception of fish skin and chicken feet, I eat all the Chinese dishes put in front of me. I do have my limits. I'll tolerate bitter melon if it's cooked with something else. Chinese vegetables are fine, including bok choy and some decedents of spinach and broccoli.
Unless tofu gets diced and cooked with meat, it's on my 'do not eat' list.

I didn't complain (too much) at dinner tonight as tofu was in a sauteed vegetable salad and repeated a line from the movie The Three Faces Of EVE... Mommy, don't make me kiss a dead person!

I feel that foreign food is not quite my taste.
Thai food tastes me the most I miss Thai food I miss thai dessert
Think about thai food Think of authentic Thai dessert.

“Not since Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins.”

July 20, 1969. As 500,000 million people watched from the Earth and two others were about to take the first steps on the moon, Michael Collins was all alone.

As the Command Module Pilot of Apollo 11, Collins orbited above the lunar surface when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked into the history books and the collective memory of our nation’s Trivial Pursuit enthusiasts.

Do a search for “Michael Collins” and you’ll find articles that use phrases like “Forgotten Astronaut,” “The Other Astronaut,” and similar slights.

Fortunately, we found one amateur mixologist who is attempting to immortalize Collins in cocktail form with a play on a traditional Tom Collins. For your drinking pleasure, we present:

The Forgotten Astronaut Cocktail
2 oz London dry gin
1 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
1/4 oz Demerara syrup
And a bar spoon of tart cherry jelly
Shake. Pour over ice in a Collins glass top off with seltzer.

Cheers to you, Michael Collins.

Thanks to Max Reid for the out-of-this-world cocktail.

These past few weeks, I have been very active on Instagram, where I watch reels. I need to stop doing that at night, just before bed.

The reason? Food.. I watch a LOT of food reels, and it's making me hungry.

Last night, I was watching about ten reels with brisket, mac and cheese, spaghetti, lasagne and big steaks. One reel improved on the Baconator from Wendy's, which in of itself is a damn fine burger. Now, seeing as it was around midnight, and all the shops were closed, I had no way of buying the ingredients I needed to make said burger from scratch. I also didn't have a blender, so.. Maybe it's for the best, because I wanted to make the bacon mayonnaise that was put in the burger.

I also got a fantastic idea for bacon cheese, but that'll be made another day. To add to that: I need to experiment with barbecue sauces, because I need different ones for different meats. Some of them will be spicy. I love spicy stuff!

My cooking is about to be taken to the next level over the next few months!

I had New England clam chowder with a teaspoon of garlic powder stirred in... for lunch this afternoon.


And a navel orange for dessert.

Caution ! Keep your distance.

Again, cooking is easy.

According to new research on foods supposed to be for vegans, one third of these products was found to contain animal by products, such as milk and eggs. Apparently it is very difficult to find vegan foods that are 100% without some form of animal by product.