TVFF has been hit. Bon Appetit has been hit. And yes, BS has been hit (sorry, mom). 2009 is officially the year of egg yolk on everything. This breakfast-for-dinner dish was inspired by the “best breakfast ever” shot in our girl El’s Morrocan food porn photos. Admittedly, my hastily-invented creation looks a little less profess than that one, but it is runny, eggy, deliciousness neveretheless. Here’s what I did:
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Like a good daughter, I came home to New Jersey for the conveniently mid-week Passover sedars. My mom is fairly strict when it comes to what is kosher for this no-bread, no-grain, not even bubble gum unless it’s Bazooka Jew (the comic strip is in Hebrew) holiday. But because being Jewish is a whole segment ripe for new marketing campaigns, every year there’s more and more that the religious can digest for these carb-less eight days. Here are the highlights.
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor [LA Times]
Ancient grains are so hott [Courier Post]
Coke uses real sugar [Huffington Post]
photo: My mom’s baked cheese open face Matzah sandwich
It’s 1am as I begin to write this post. I was all set to fill up the page with snark and wit…that is until my GTHC chants fell upon deaf ears in Detroit tonight. Oh well, it was not the most unexpected win of all time, but that doesn’t dappen my depression.
With that behind us, I will now explain my newfound ability to cook the world’s simplest food…the gilled cheese sandwich.
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– Everyone loves “nuts.” EricW wants to make sure you all caught this follow-up. Not to be missed.
– In our first food blog feud, 48 percent of you say Scanwhich should stop whining. Britannia: Maybe “Scanwich” can take the left half of the sandwich and “Scanwiches” can take the right half. Problem solved.
– Keep those March Madness food analogies coming. JoeHoya: Dick Vitale = Bacos. He’s loud. He’s assertive. There’s something distinctly unnatural about him. He’s been around forever, and dammit, he’s EVERYWHERE. But he’s not for everyone – either you love him, in which case you think he makes every game-watching opportunity better, or you hate him, and his mere presence ruins the experience completely.
– Finally, wow am I glad I swallowed my pride and asked for your bad-egg-detecting techniques. ESers really came through on this one:
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Well, it was bound to happen. Everyone and their grandmother now has a food blog, and the market is starting to look a little crowded. Most of us play nice with each other, but what happens when competing food blogs start to look a little too similar? Food blog feuds!
We love us a good blog war, but who to side with? As always, ES is here to be your judge and jury.
First Up: The Scanwich War. Undoubtedly, many of you have recently come across Scanwiches, the latest hot food blog making a viral jaunt around the Interwebs. Jon Chonko, the NYC-based blogger behind Scanwiches, spends his workdays scanning cross-sections of his meals, and his drool-worthy shots of Reubens and Cubans are enough to make anyone leave for lunch at 10:15. The simple concept has gotten Scanwiches a whole blogload of praise. Serious Eats calls it delicious, Gizmodo proclaims Chonko a “genius”, and even our boy Andrew Sullivan has taken note. In short, the Scanwiches dude seems to be well on his way to a blog-to-book deal.
But there’s a slight problem with Scanwiches, and it isn’t just mayo stains on the company scanner. Turns out it’s not the most original idea ever. Another hungry NYC-er, Justin Bilicki, has been posting his own lunch shots on a site called Scanwich since 2007. Bilicki, somewhat understandably, is hopping mad about all the buzz for Scanwiches, and has updated his site to reflect its status as “The Original,” along with a few choice words for his new nemesis:
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So if Oscar Mayer is advertising to bloggers, does this mean it’s the end of blogging?
Via CopyWriterUnderground; Tip Brian
…I eat like a six year old. Yep, those are tater-tots.
Hey, I didn’t feel like cooking and I had a rather large burrito for lunch so I wasn’t in the mood for a multi-course meal. But I do have a point beyond inviting you to laugh at my culinary transgression.
The more interesting item in the back is a fried egg sandwich that contains a special ingredient — an impulse buy during my last trip to the grocery store. That slice of porky goodness is the pride of Trenton, New Jersey…Taylor’s Pork Roll.
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