vitauta
Executive Chef
where's the laissez faire in that?
we have two threads going on superbowl eats, you know. and i see there's going to be a puppy bowl again this year. is the puppy bowl meant for that hardcore group of fb haters out there, and do you suppose i need to buy some puppy chow, too....
I made ghiradelli brownies last night ( for the Niner's). Just plain regular ones, none of that funny california/ alice be toklas stuff. ( drat). For the Ravens, I hope someone brings a crab dip or something, otherwise my wings will easily convert to Raven Wings, won't skip a beat nor change a thing.
In case you want to know who I am rooting for, for a hint, look over at Mr Natural towards your left.
I think I've settled on making Chicken-Sausage gumbo and mini-Po'Boys for Superbowl Sunday. Banana Pudding for dessert.
It just sounds right.
first off, whiskas, forgive my ignorance, please. what is the brownies/sanfran 49ers connection? secondly, i'm afraid i don't recognize your avatar, don't know mr. natural. but, i will hazard a guess and say your team is the 49ers because of the gold color....?
Ghiradelli chocolate is from San Francisco, like Hershey's choc in Pa. Ghiradelli Square is an historic now tourist area along fisherman's wharf area. Grocery stores sell a brownie mix that is better than betty crocker. Pretty easy to make. Hard to not do a taste test.
We lived in SF for two years in the early 70's.
My avatar is by 1960's SF undergrond comic artist, Robert Crumb. He wrote ahem, adult comic books; subjects mostly were ( pardon again, ahem) sex drugs rock and roll and hippie individuality as expressed by alternative lifestyle conformity ofthe time. Mr Natural as a comic character was most often nekkid. His long beard made him seem quite chaste. Well, mostly. This might be close to Mr Natural's last hurrah. Looking for a new avatar for 2013. I watched an R Crumb biography recently. He is unfortunately way more misogynist that I find intolerable. I do like he is an avid collector of 1920's -30's jazz. That part is very much my style.
So that's it in a nut shell.
I thought it had something to do with the Keep on Truckin' guy.
I LOVE the beer cooler idea's. You can also use your bathtub (after you clean it, of course.) I see nice display of beer bottles and little yellow plastic ducks. =o)
I'm going to attempt to make a shrimp and sausage gumbo using an Alton Brown recipe that has you making the roux in the oven. I have not been successful in roux'ing in the past. I'm hoping this will work nicely. My one glitch is that I cannot find head -on shrimp. I was hoping to use the heads for the stock. I think a combo of chicken stock and clam juice may work to get something close to the missing shrimp stock.