Cheat Codes: How To Make A Tostada Meal
People who are following PCFG may remember tostadas, from our post on how to make your own Crunchwrap from Taco Bell. They’re a lightly fried, crispy, corn tortilla that somewhat resemble a giant tortilla chip or a flat taco shell. They work really well for a number of different simple dishes or recipes.
But wait, actually, a tostada is also just the name of a meal in Mexican cuisine. Shit, this might be confusing. (Actually, it’s pretty simple. It’s made out of the aforementioned tostadas, and can be prepared in minutes.)
Smoothie Sunday: Peanut Butter Blueberry Smoothie
I realize this smoothie is pretty similar to the peanut butter and jelly smoothie that I posted last year. But blueberry jelly is less popular than strawberry jelly, so I decided that it deserved its own post. The inspiration for this smoothie came from my putting blueberries on peanut butter toast. It’s very yummy, but it can be a bit tricky to eat. This smoothie has all the flavor without fear of blueberries rolling off of bread.
Most of what you’ll need.
The Snack Report: Lay’s Do Us a Flavor Finalists Part 1
Yes, it’s that time of year again; when Lay’s hands their development department over to the public and lets us decide what their new flavor will be. Something I noticed the other day while in the chip aisle at the store is that the first two winners of the “Do Us a Flavor” contests were largely cheese based. The 2013 winner was Cheesy Garlic Bread and the 2014 winner was Bacon Mac and Cheese. Not that there’s anything wrong with this, but cheese flavored chips have already been around for awhile; sour cream and cheddar is a potato chip staple. Perhaps just out of chance, or perhaps out of conscious effort to not have another cheese chip win, there are no cheese flavored chips in the finals this year. Something that definitely seems like a conscious decision this year was to add location modifiers to the flavor names. This year’s finalists are: Greektown Gyro, West Coast Truffle Fries, Southern Biscuits and Gravy, and New York Reuben. Whether they did this to try and lend some sort of authenticity, to pit places against each other, or just because they thought it sounded good I am unsure.
Since there are 4 chips to review I decided to break this up into two different posts instead of making it one huge one. This week’s post will review the Greektown Gryo and the Southern Biscuits and Gravy.
Quick Recipe: Simple Indian Dressing
One of the larger cornerstone ingredients in Indian cuisine is yogurt. Not the sugary, granola-laden dessert versions we enjoy here in America, but just plain-ass regular yogurt. It gets used for marinating meats, is turned into drinks like kefir, and can also be used as a condiment. Lately I put together this simple little recipe that sprang out of my love for burritos and curry. Surely, those two can’t combine, right? Well actually they do quite well. For anyone from the Long Island area, we recommend the hell out of a little hole in the wall that serves Indian-Mexican fusion, Taco Express in Selden, NY (ignore the handful of bad reviews complaining about service, we’ve never had any problems).
Anyway, this particular recipe is for a quick little dressing that does a good job of bringing that delicious, warm curry flavor to the table without requiring a ton of time or effort. Eat it on rice, in burritos, on sandwiches, salads, etc… It’s delicious and goes well with almost anything!
Pizza Lab #33: Marshmallow Krispie Treat Pizza
There’s not a lot of universal truths out there. It’s hard to make grand, sweeping statements that are actually true. And most professional writers and college professors will tell you the worst way to begin a piece is by doing basically what I’m doing here, but hey that’s besides the point. Anyway, here goes.
I venture to say, every single person under the age of 50 has eaten a Rice Krispie Treat, in America. Really. Come on, how can you not have? They’re a snack/dessert fixture for everyone. For many kids, that’s their first venture into the world of cooking, due to the overwhelming simplicity of them. Three ingredients, no knives or sharp objects, very little heating, and no complicated cooking involved. Everyone has to have had at least one in their life at some point.
Naturally, it’s about time we turned them into a pizza, don’t you think?
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