Month: November 2014

A very happy Thanksgiving to my blog readers! I hope you have safe travels, a great time with friends and/or family, delicious meals, and I also urge you to try not to eat anything TOO adventurous. Thanksgiving is a day for tradition, not for weird-ass food mashups.

The days leading up to Thanksgiving, well…thats another story. What now?

Thanksgiving Feast flavored potato chips? DON’T MIND IF I DO!

Methods/materials:

You can find these Boulder Canyon Thanksgiving Feast-themed potato chips at Target if you are as lucky as I am. I have never heard of Boulder Canyon before, but mad props them for conveniently packaging all four of these weird flavors together in an appropriate serving size for tasting (looking at you, Lays). We tried one bag of chips per day in “meal order” alternating savory/sweet/savory/sweet.

Results:

Stuffing

Holy crap. These chips taste like stuffing. What is the flavor of stuffing? Butter? Bread? Parsley? Onions? Celery? Celery. I have no idea how these chips pull off tasting like stuffing but I am going to guess it has something to do with celery. Final answer, celery. Really, really delicious chips.

Cranberry

These chips were bizarre. At first they didn’t really taste like anything. They were just mildly sweet chips with freaky pink powder on them. Then I ate more and more, and I started to kind of taste cranberry, but that makes no sense. Cranberry is not a flavor that sneaks up on you. Cranberry is an in-your-face flavor. Cranberry doesn’t mess around. Do these chips taste like cranberry? I’m still not sure. Were they good? I’m still not sure. Were they bad? I’m still not sure. I AM sure that based purely on the color, I don’t ever want to eat them again.

Turkey and Gravy

I was skeptical. I have had a prior experience with poultry-flavored potato chips and I was not impressed. But holy crap, once again. These chips taste like turkey. No joke, these potato chips taste like turkey. I felt like Violet freaking Beauregard eating these chips. I’m not as crazy about turkey as I am about stuffing, so I’m not over the moon about these things so much as I am really impressed by them.

Pumpkin Pie

These chips were not only pretty good, they also led me to completely rethink the failure that was the Lays cappucino chip. That chip MIGHT have been good if they had just made it sweet! The pumpkin chips are sweet with cinnamon and nutmeg, and are definitely the most addictive of the four Thanksgiving flavors. The off chip that isn’t sweet tastes weird and lame like the cappuccino chips, but they are few and far between. A++ would recommend.

Discussion:

The final verdict is that these things are probably the most impressive flavor mimickry I have ever observed in a potato chip. I’d advise trying three out of four of these Thanksgiving chips if you are into that kind of thing!

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I promised a while back that I would make a weird coffee post.

I was going to try butter in coffee, and then bread cheese in coffee, and then I was going to be done, and it was going to be terrific. I tried both, then I tried both a second time because I realized I hadn’t gathered sufficient photos the first time, and now I have to admit I do the butter in coffee like every other weekend because I happened to try it the same week I also started regular Saturday AND Sunday excercising and I am 100% atttributing the fact that I now feel AMAZING on weekends to the butter in my coffee and not the two hours of cardio + sleeping in and not working as much.

So there I was, all ready to post this post, and then the freaking Food and Wine Magazine Twitter account (the Food and Wine Magazine Twitter account will one day kill me) sends this freaking tweet about people drinking coffee OUT OF BELL PEPPERS.

JUST STOP! STOP DOING WEIRD THINGS WITH COFFEE AND LET ME MAKE THIS POST!

I am just going to tell both you and Food and Wine magazine this one time, and I want you to pay close attention. I am making the executive decision that I am not going to the store to buy a bell pepper for the purpose of drinking coffee out of a bell pepper. If, someday in the future, I happen to have a spare bell pepper, and am drinking coffee, and glance over to the bell pepper whilst drinking said coffee, and I have the energy and desire to then hollow out the seeds and ribs from a bell pepper while keeping it in a shape that could hold a beverage, I might ENTERTAIN THE THOUGHT of drinking the coffee out of the bell pepper. But that’s it.

This is the weird coffee post, and you are going to like it, with or without coffee in a bell pepper.

So yeah, butter in coffee is pretty tasty. I mean, it basically sits on the top and then coagulates about midway through and becomes super gross if you don’t have a utensil to skim the flotsam and jetsam off the top, and you’re really just drinking melted butter for the first half of the mug (because chemistry), but when you think about it, it makes sense, right? The oils are what make French pressed coffee and Americanos so delicious, and those are my two favorite forms of coffee. So this is just like double bonus coffee with a chaser of melted butter. Sold.

Bread cheese in coffee is also surprisingly fantastic. It just works. I don’t know why, and I want to know why. Should I be eating more salty things with my coffee? Should I be eating more cheesy things with my coffee? Or should I just leave well enough alone and occasionally eat bread cheese with my coffee because bread cheese is a unique snowflake? I’ll go with door number three.

The Ez Factor

This isn’t really a cheese post, but I do have to point out that Ezra regularly tries to figure out WTF is going on with the butter coffee which most definitely affects (read: ruins) the relaxing weekend coffee experience.

I told you I knew where this was going.