Support PCFG’s entry in the Lay’s “Do Us A Flavor” sweepstakes!
Last year Lay’s rocked the munchies world by launching a contest where people could submit ideas for new potato chip flavors. After the dust settled, the winner was Karen Mendham’s Cheese Garlic Bread flavor. We here at PCFG have tried them in the past few months and they seem to deserve the win, definitely having a cheese/garlic flavor to them.
Fast forward to present day, Lay’s is once again opening the floodgates for people to post all manners of stupid ideas, ranging from bacon doughnut to seviche to cinnamon sugar. Meg A. and I recently came up with our own idea and decided to submit it. That’s right, Poor Couple’s Food Guide is officially throwing our hat into the ring, with our idea for Tzatziki Gyro flavored potato chips! The idea is inspired from our mutual love for eating french fries dipped in tzatziki sauce while getting gyros. Now obviously, as a nationwide sweepstakes, the odds of winning are hilariously low. That’s why we ask you to give us some help and support our flavor on both Lay’s website and on Facebook.
If we make it to the finals, then YOU get to buy the flavor in stores when the other finalists are released in retail for final voting. So don’t do it for us, do it for yourselves!
We Can Do it Better: Brownie Brittle
Okay guys, admit it, you knew this was coming, right? As soon as I said in my review of Brownie Brittle that it’s good, but expensive, you knew we’d be figuring out how to make our own. In reality we’ve been planning this even before I wrote the review article. What really pushed us over the edge into finally making it was when got our hands on the salted caramel flavor Brownie Brittle and were incredibly underwhelmed. We knew we could do it better, and now you can too!
The basic idea was just to make a brownie batter and instead of baking it in a pan, spreading it really thin on a baking sheet. In order to do this you need to have a baking sheet that has a rim, like this:
The rim will make sure your batter doesn’t go all over the place and burn in the bottom of your oven.
Cheat Codes: Pizza English Muffins
It doesn’t exactly take a genius to realize the two of us love pizza. It’s a weekly ritual for us, and Pizza Labs are a highlight of every month. But sometimes there isn’t pizza dough on hand. Sometimes going out for pizza isn’t realistic. Sometimes you need to get creative. And today was a perfect opportunity for doing so, considering Long Island has been blasted with a snowstorm for the umpteenth time this winter.
Naturally I found myself craving pizza, not having eaten any in five days, but didn’t want to risk driving through six inches of wet, sloppy snow in my hilarious PT Cruiser. What is a man to do?
No, no, not quite that.
Tea Time: Review Round-up
We’ve both been sidelined by a nasty cold this week (me the first half, Erik the second). That means we’ve both been drinking a lot of tea, when we were able to work up the energy. Tea is good all the time, but especially when you have a cold because the steam can help clear your nose, it can help soothe your throat, and it can help your insides feel nice and warm. Since I can’t taste any food well enough to write about it this week, I’ve decided to write up a review of some of my favorite teas that I’ve been drinking instead.
Ready for some tea?
Pizza Lab #13: Pesto Green Pizza
Pizza Lab is a fun theoretical column in which Meg A. and Erik S. explore their innermost passion for baking and eating pizzas. It exists purely for the sake of experimenting in the kitchen. It may not necessarily be cost-effective everytime, so don’t try this at home kids.
With the holidays finally over, everyone is finally back in gear, with it being the third week of January. Here at Poor Couple’s Food Guide, we’re back at work in our secret laboratory churning out awesome recipes for everyone to enjoy. That’s not to say we took an entire break over Christmas! It wouldn’t be a month without Pizza Lab, and as such we made one for both experimentation of using green-colored cheese, as well as to give us something edible in the Italian-American seafood onslaught known as Christmas Eve. Winter can be tough, and January is a relatively crummy month since it’s host to blizzards, long periods of days below freezing, and post-Christmas bouts of depression. If you fall into the latter category, then we have a month-late surprise to cheer you up!
Disclaimer: I swear to God this isn’t lettuce, it’s cheese.
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