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Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Put on Some Clothes Now?

fatmanseoul — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:36:15 +0000

Yes, that’s right: Your favorite crisped rice chocolate bar has evolved not only into ball shape, but it’s running around sans clothing! SCANDALOUS!
Nude Crunky is regular crunky balls rolled in an extra layer of rice crisps, and available in pretty much every minimart and grocery store in the country. Chow down on a few, if you don’t mind sinking your teeth into nude balls of crunky. Just ignore the gossip and what the neighbors are saying about you . . .

Bonus points if you can figure out the reasoning behind the title of this post!

Bonus Bonus: As long as we’re talking about inappropriately named snacks, go check out Zen Kimchi’s Ricetard review.

Food Diary: Voodoo Doughnut Run

Gomushin Girl — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:19:51 +0000

When the weather is damp and drear (always in this neck of the woods) people like to head to that most venerable of Stumptown institutions, Voodoo Doughnut. Since I wasn’t headed downtown I headed to their second location, Voodoo Doughnut Too for a little of that voodoo that they do.

It’s not every place that can get away with making the kinds of doughnuts that these guys do. Favorites include a maple bacon doughnut (just think of it as all your breakfast rolled into one delicious doughnut) and the kind I got today.

This raised doughnut is filled with oozy, gooey jelly, covered in chocolate, and stabbed with a couple of pretzels. Just pretend that it’s somebody you don’t care for much. Ex-boyfriends, former employers, annoying roommates . . .

I also brought home a butterfingered (devil’s food, vanilla frosting, and crumbled butterfinger candy) for my family members. I swear, I was even going to let them eat it, but I was afraid it would go stale ^^;;; . . .

Voodoo Doughnut is pretty cool. After all, it’s not every doughnut shop that you can get married in . . .

Gimme Doughnut from Magda Diaz on Vimeo.

Food Diary: Ringing in the New Year

Gomushin Girl — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:48:31 +0000

Ok, so I didn’t get invited to any hip parties this New Year’s Eve, and I’m too lazy and scared of driving to go out and find a party on my own. I stayed home and watched the Twilight Zone to ring in 2009. I also ate one of my favorite meals for dinner: My mother’s quiche.

Quiche is a savory egg custard tart. This one had bacon, spinach, swiss cheese, and onions inside to make a very confused quiche lorraine (traditionally ham and swiss.) My mother’s peculiar version uses cottage cheese, making it lighter and fluffier than most people’s.
After dinner, a neighbor stopped by with some cookies and sweets for us.

Her sweets were added to the pile, as we’d just finished baking some of our own traditional holiday fare. Every year my mother makes whiskey walnut cakes to give away as gifts, but a fair number of them never make it out of the house. They’re a family recipe from my great-aunt, and are essentially a boozy pound cake. They’re even more boozy when you consume them in batter form by licking the bowl and beaters, something I haven’t been able to indulge in in years. Mmmm, raw batter!

As the clock struck midnight Pacific Standard time, I made a small toast to the expired year with the last of my tawny port and snacked on the aforementioned whiskey walnut cake, some ginger crackers, and a few chocolate truffles. A sweet welcome to the new year, and a fond(ish) adieu to the old.

Kaya Now Available

fatmanseoul — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:46:57 +0000

Shoppers have spotted jars of kaya here in Korea! The thick, sweet cocount slather used at Ya Kun and Kopitiam Kaya chains is now available from the imported foods shelves of the underground grocery at Lotte Department Store at Euljiro-ipgu. Try the brown, green, or chocolate kaya for 6,900원 per jar.