Fickle Fork of Fate

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Lay's Garden Tomato and Basil Chips

It looks so fresh and organic!

Late Night All Nighter Cheeseburger Doritos

If you're wondering why there's no picture, it's because the Doritos official site is the ugliest fucking nightmare of a site I've ever seen, and the only picture Google can find comes from a "review" on a "website" that is so glowing with unearned praise that someone clearly either got paid, blown, or both to publish it. And it wasn't even a good picture.

So Liz was kind enough to bring a bag of these to the Sunday shindig, and most of us tried them. 

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Don Miguel's Chicken Flautas

I haven't cooked all fucking week.

Trader Joe's Frozen Pork Al Pastor

I'm a big fan of a lot of the prepared foods at Trader Joe's. It tends to strike a nice balance along the price, taste, and health axes. So when, a couple of weeks back, I found a twelve ounce bag of pork al pastor in their freezer case, I was pretty excited.

I love me some pork al pastor. A little smoky, a little spicy, a little crispy, a little fatty. It's one of my favorite toppings at Taqueria Los Ocampos. I've tried to make it myself, with some success, but it's a bit fussy. So if Trader Joe's managed to come up with a decent frozen version, it'd be very useful.

Brookside Dark Chocolate Pomegranate Candy

Tiny nuggets of goodness.Goddamned Costco coupons.

They did this with the Izze, too. First one's not free, but it is a few bucks off. Then you get hooked on fruity sodas, or little balls of dark chocolate wrapped around pomegranate jellies.

We will not discuss how quickly the two-pound bag has vanished, because you don't need to know that.

Your Ubiquitous Doritos Update

Corn! Oil! Corn Oil!

In case you're wondering, no, I haven't done any cooking OR eating worthy of blogging about since the lettuce wraps on Sunday. The most significant food-related event of my entire week has been the discovery that the strange barbecue-sauce substance dripping on the bottom shelf of my fridge is actually adobo juice from some stored chipotles. That's life sometimes.

My Food Processor

A rare instance of the bowl not being either full of food or soapy water.I've been using my food processor like a maniac over the past few days, and realized I was remiss in talking about it.

It's a remanufactured Kitchenaid that I got a deal on from Amazon in the summer of last year, after breaking my old crappy Wolfgang Puck-branded food processor that I broke trying to make bread crumbs.

The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

It's October. And you know what that means. The single greatest mass-market major-company carbonated corn-syrup product is back on shelves, where it will remain until late December or early January.

I drink it in cans, but there is only so much Google Image Search I'm willing to do on a Sunday night.

Naanwich

A sandwich is just a sandwich, but a naanwich is a... sandwich on naan bread. Sort of.So there I was on Friday, in Whole Foods, getting sun-dried tomatoes for the flatbread pizza one post down, when I decided to also get lunch. I decided to get lunch because, while I had plenty of Weird Curry leftovers, I was sick of rice. I'd had rice in all my lunches all week, and I couldn't take one more day of it.

Ancestral Snacks: Fudge Stripe Cookies

You'd think it'd be easier to find a clean image of a Fudge Stripe, but no way was I gonna turn off Safe Search.What is an Ancestral Snack? It is a snack food of my youth, one that I am still physically capable of eating today.

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