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Awaken Your Giant

Happiness is not by chance but by choice.

Sazonador!

Tonight I shall discover the hidden secrets of… Sazonador!!!

 

Filed under  //   Cooking & Food   The Kitchen of Dr. Moreau  
Posted September 22, 2009
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The Hong Kong Chef does it again

It is clear that the Hong Kong Chef does not want me to be great.  If he did (and I presume it’s a ‘he’) why would ‘H.K.C.’ deliver all of this to me for $5.25? Where else can you get this glorious bounty of button popping delights for less than a Mc value meal?

  • Orange Chicken with Brown Rice
  • Spring Roll
  • Wonton Soup
  • Chow-Mein Noodles. (A meal in itself with no expiration date…ever).
  • Yi-Pen Hot, Soy & Duck Sauces.

I did it to myself, now I’ve got to dial Ray and see if he will go with me to the track tonight. …Great, he’s not answering :(

Hong Kong Chef
470 Mamaroneck Ave.
White Plains, NY 10605
(914) 948-8045

Filed under  //   Cooking & Food   Meals   The Office  
Posted September 1, 2009
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Big Pizza

$2.25 a slice.  AWESOME!

Nicky's Pizza & Restaurant
280 E 204th St # A,
Bronx, NY 10467-410
(718) 231-4813

 

Filed under  //   Cooking & Food  
Posted August 23, 2009
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Dallas BBQ (...again)

           
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Last night I was once again at self proclaimed "Best BBQ in NYC" restaurant; 'Dallas BBQ' in The Bronx.
You cannot get more full and have a Texas Size frozen drink with a shot for under $20. 
Blue Bull Frozen Margarita with a shot of Tequila... AWESOME.
Hennessey Wings get the seal of approval; although I have never had chicken wings that takes up to 6-8 bites to finish.
These may be wings, but like from a Terradactyl or Ostrich. 
Seriously, they are not normal, bordering freaky.
But in times like these, who doesn't want more suspect, supposed-to-be-extinct white meat drenched in cognac BBQ sauce?

 

 

Filed under  //   Cooking & Food   Recession   The Alcohol Chronicles  
Posted August 14, 2009
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Tap-That

                     
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This is not the slap-chop.
It is the 'Tap-That' ....pause...("that's what she said" ~ Michael Scott)
Note the advertising tricknology: one of the photos does not say 'as seen on TV', rather it says 'smart TV solutions'.
Sure, OK.
I know sham-wow Vince is somewhere bad mouthing my savings in these difficult times.
But I digress.
I tapped that for a few minutes...while making my guacamole from the kit seen here.
Trader Joe's has a great Guacamole Kit for $2.99.
It definitely yields more Guacamole for your recession stretched buck than pre-packaged versions.
And in 'times like these', who doesn't want more Guacamole for their hard earned buck?

Filed under  //   Cooking & Food   Photography   Reviews  
Posted August 13, 2009
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The Kitchen of Dr. Moreau


I had a vision late last night when unpacking groceries from my favorite place on EARTH to shop; Target.
It was a vision of evolution. The kind of evolution only a genius mind can craft and then be labeled by society...a mad-man.
I will create my own super species. 
Granted, I'm too busy not doing work to begin the DNA mapping and gene splicing, but I will take another route anyway.  I'm not selfish, so I will share my technique for accelerated evolution.

It starts with 1 can Albacore Tuna + 1 can Chicken salad white meat.
I Frankensteined these two by mashing them up in a bowl with mayonnaise and sprinkling them with Old Bay seasoning & Adobo.
 
 
I told you that being broke equals creativity, but I never thought I would create a super race of dead lunch animals.
As with all things, cheese could have made this better but was omitted for the sake of purity.

I ask you one question.
Chickuna or Tunicken ?
 
 
Tags: The Kitchen of Dr. Moreau, Brown-Bagging, Another photo of my meals.

 

Filed under  //   Cooking & Food   The Kitchen of Dr. Moreau  
Posted September 10, 2008
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Brown-Bagging It.


The funds are low this week.  Translation: I'm brown bagging it all week long.  This is a good thing because daily breakfast & lunch can average $12 easily from the in-bulding cafeteria at work which has never heard of Adobo or any other seasoning.  $60 weekly, $240 monthly or $2880 annually.  Whoa! Kinda makes Peanut Butter & Jelly seem like a viable & tasty alternative. 

But fear not!
Brown bagging (or in this case a plastic target bag) does not have to be a soggy sandwich and dixie cup of water cooler piss...NO!   Why not "take it up a notch"?  Just a tad short of setting up my Foreman grill at my desk, I decided on Tacos.  The bulk of the work was done the night before, that is the meat cooking and then stored into small left over plastic containers.  Cheese, meat, gauacamole, taco sauce & shells along with a Rockstar Energy drink all assembled at my desk.  It can get messy, so I put it all together over someones excel print-outs I took off the printer while returning from the microwave.  Even with a desk full of small containers and and a napkin tucked into protect my shirt, some random co-woker stops by my desk to say "sorry for interrupting your lunch but...".  I pretty much kept eating and pretending I could not speak while grunting at them letting food fall from my face onto what I think was their print-outs.  That image is usually enough to send the message, "not while I'm eating...k? thx! bye."

In conclusion, I may have to do Tacos more often.  The Taco Kit was only $2.69 at Target and a pound of ground turkey was about $2.99.  Only thing I added was an diced onion and some additional Adobo.  All together I had dinner & lunch for under $6.00.  Plus I collected 3 "Box Top$ Education" labels worth .10¢ each for my sons school.
 
Tags: Brown-Bagging, broke = creative, Leave me alone and call the help desk.

 

Filed under  //   Brown Bagging   Cooking & Food   Meals   Recession   The Office  
Posted September 8, 2008
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