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Cheat Codes: Make Your Own Bruschetta in Minutes
We’ve discussed bruschetta before, when talking about the tomato salad that typically gets served on or alongside it. And yes, said tomato salad is amazing, but let’s not all forget about the base of this: the actual bruschetta. These tasty, little toast slices are incredibly useful for all sorts of applications, and even better is how insanely easy they are to make.
Poor Couple’s Food Guide is Now on Youtube!
Some of you may be wondering what’s up with PCFG lately. Infrequent scheduling, a lack of our weekly quick-recipe posts, and not a ton of updates in general, both on the site and on our Facebook page. Well, we’ve teased it long enough, so we’re pleased to announce the official Poor Couple’s Food Guide’s Youtube channel!
This channel is our latest endeavor from us to provide all our fans with cool, new content that gives you a new way to experience our tips, tricks, recipes, and other general info from the blog. With over 10,000 average monthly views, PCFG has never been bigger or better! What’s more is that beyond this, we’ve got some bigger surprises in store as well! For now, why not head over to our channel and support us by Subscribing? Here’s our first video ever!
As a quick rundown, here’s what you can expect to see from us on Youtube:
- Pizza Lab – We’ll be sure to showcase some of our favorite pizza labs, that we’ve made. Though brand new pizzas will always appear on the site first.
- How To Make Recipes – Standard, run of the mill recipe videos from yours truly. Think of these as the Youtube equivalent of quick-recipe posts.
- Cheat Codes – Our beloved Cheat Codes section, filled with tips and tricks, will provide nifty advice and tutorials in video form.
- Quiet Cooking – Want to just kick back and relax to some nice, peaceful kitchen sounds? These vids are up your alley. And hey, you may learn something while watching them too!
While we’re not set on a concrete video schedule, we’d like to aim to get up at least two videos per month, maybe even more depending on popularity. We may also expand to even more video formats if the channel is successful enough. But that depends on you. Support us by subscribing, liking our videos, and most important of all, sharing our videos on social media! We appreciate every time one of our fans recommends us to someone else, and we’re always open to suggestions/requests. If not, we absolutely hope you enjoy this new way to access PCFG and promise to keep making awesome stuff for our awesome fans.
The Snack Report: Super Mario 3-Dees Gummies
Some fans of PCFG may be aware that both Meg and I are Nintendo fans. Maybe someday we’ll be famous enough that people streetpassing us on their Nintendo 3DS will be a big deal… Until then, we can only fantasize. Oh and also locate and eat the few Nintendo-themed snacks out there, we can find in the U.S.! Which brings me to today’s Snack Report: Super Mario gummies, made by Au’some. However, these aren’t just any old gummies… much like the Nintendo 64, these guys have made the jump into the third dimension.
Whoaaaaaaaaaaa.
Pizza Lab #39: Chicken Katsu Pizza
Here at Poor Couple’s Food Guide, we strive to bring you at least one Pizza Lab per month. Most of the time we’re pretty good at it, but there’ve been instances where we came close to missing that timetable. Some of you might be wondering, “What about February? It’s the last day of the month…”And for sure dudes and dudettes, you are right. But we’ll be damned if we broke our promise to deliver a new wacky pizza in time, and so on this magical day, February 29th, also known as Leap Day, we would like to direct your attention to the following: Chicken Katsu Pizza.
Spices 101: What is Sansho Pepper?
Recently we went over the interesting quirks behind black pepper, and how it’s not really a pepper but really more of a berry, and how they start off as these weird little green things, and so on and so forth. You may remember that red peppercorns weren’t really technically peppercorns, but were instead a similar berry from a different plant. Today we’re going to learn about yet another look-alike (taste-alike?) of black pepper, sansho pepper.
Sansho
Origin: Japan
Appearance: Light green powder OR small green berries
Scent: Fruity, zesty
Taste: Citric, spicy, warm
Foods: Japanese, other Asian
Rareness: Rare
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