Saturday, January 24, 2015
Introduction to Brody's Good Restaurants
At an earlier post, I mentioned a new blog I may start. Well, here it is Brody's Good Restaurants . There is only so many foods that can be mentioned, so while I'm finishing up posting about individual foods and dishes that I've eaten and had at my house, I'm also going to be posting on my new blog. My new blog will be about restaurants I visit. It will post as often as I go out to eat. I'm currently in the middle of a semester, so my eating out time will be limited. However, sense the semester is just starting I have had time to go to a restaurant (Applebee's) and will have that post for that. I hope you enjoy reading my new blog.
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Christmas Eve
Tomorrow is Christmas Day or December 25, a week before 2015. Tomorrow I get to indulge in some Christmas food, like fruit cake. I'm sure I'll have some posts on each of the different foods that I'm going to eat or try, that I haven't already posted about.
Besides posting more on this blog, I'm considering starting a blog where I talk about restaurant that I visit and what I liked and disliked about them. I hate giving bad reviews, but I would rather give restaurant advice to people, so they can try and avoid bad restaurant. However, I'm sure it won't come to bad reviews and, even if it did, people could have a different opinion.
If I do start a blog, it probably won't be until next year. If and when I do start a restaurant blog then I would link it to this blog for my viewers to find easily.
Besides posting more on this blog, I'm considering starting a blog where I talk about restaurant that I visit and what I liked and disliked about them. I hate giving bad reviews, but I would rather give restaurant advice to people, so they can try and avoid bad restaurant. However, I'm sure it won't come to bad reviews and, even if it did, people could have a different opinion.
If I do start a blog, it probably won't be until next year. If and when I do start a restaurant blog then I would link it to this blog for my viewers to find easily.
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Good old Peanut Butter & Jelly
One of the simplest sandwiches, Peanut Butter & Jelly can be great for a quick snack (as long as you have all the ingredients). All you need is peanut butter, jelly and bread. Believe me when I say, sometimes you can be surprised when you go to make one and find all the ingredients used or just as surprised when you end up having more than one.
The first ingredient in the name is peanut butter. Peanut butter can be crunchy or smooth. There are actually several varieties of peanut butter. Personally, I prefer the original peanut butter, but I don't overly care if it is crunchy or smooth, crunchy is just harder to spread around. I think smooth is more economical, though, because the crunch stacks high and results in using more so it doesn't last as long. At least peanut butter is fairly neat.
The second half of the name is jelly. There are several different kinds of jelly and I've made a few of them. I've made blackberry jelly, I just need to make sure that I leave enough blackberries to make the jelly. After you boil down the blackberries there is a lot less of it, so you need a lot to start with. Making jelly is a fairly simple operation. You know what they say, 'The toast always lands jelly side down.' Jelly can get rather messy.
I would recommend using the cheapest bread you can because between the peanut butter and jelly, it is hard to taste the bread. In this instance, I tend to use white bread or Italian bread.
The first ingredient in the name is peanut butter. Peanut butter can be crunchy or smooth. There are actually several varieties of peanut butter. Personally, I prefer the original peanut butter, but I don't overly care if it is crunchy or smooth, crunchy is just harder to spread around. I think smooth is more economical, though, because the crunch stacks high and results in using more so it doesn't last as long. At least peanut butter is fairly neat.
The second half of the name is jelly. There are several different kinds of jelly and I've made a few of them. I've made blackberry jelly, I just need to make sure that I leave enough blackberries to make the jelly. After you boil down the blackberries there is a lot less of it, so you need a lot to start with. Making jelly is a fairly simple operation. You know what they say, 'The toast always lands jelly side down.' Jelly can get rather messy.
I would recommend using the cheapest bread you can because between the peanut butter and jelly, it is hard to taste the bread. In this instance, I tend to use white bread or Italian bread.
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Fellow bloggers
I know it's been a while sense my last post. I have been belly deep in homework, but I've been drafting a few post topics, so when Christmas break come I'll have lots have posts to fill in and won't have to think up more foods to talk about. If I'm lucky, I might get one other post out before December, but I make no guarantees. After December starts, forget it, it'll be crunch time for finals and I definitely won't have time to post. I decided that I didn't like the amount of space that my previous font provided between words, so my new font is Arial.
I was talking with my friends that also blog earlier about each of our blogs and I thought that it would be nice to mention each other's blogs on our own. So I planned out a how and a when and now here are their blogs!
I was talking with my friends that also blog earlier about each of our blogs and I thought that it would be nice to mention each other's blogs on our own. So I planned out a how and a when and now here are their blogs!
- Chloe Armstrong (the-dancing-queen.blogspot.com)
- Dale Volker (volkersmovies.blogspot.com)
- Lisa Park (lisa-talks-about-anything.blogspot.com)
- Amanda Perry (amandas-dream-blog.blogspot.com)
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Tuna Melt
I only just found out about tuna melts rather recently. I was over at a friends house and someone their was making a tuna melt for lunch. I had eaten a tuna sandwich before, but not like that. I was curious, so I asked him about it.
A tuna melt is like a grilled cheese, except for the fact that it has tuna on it. However, it varies by bread, cheese and how long you grill it, just like it would for a grilled cheese.
The main thing to look for in tuna is the type of tuna and what it's in. That will influence the flavor the most in a tuna melt.
A tuna melt is like a grilled cheese, except for the fact that it has tuna on it. However, it varies by bread, cheese and how long you grill it, just like it would for a grilled cheese.
The main thing to look for in tuna is the type of tuna and what it's in. That will influence the flavor the most in a tuna melt.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato (BLT)
My favorite sandwich is Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato or (BLT); it has been for a while. It wasn't always, but when you try a lot of things your tastes and favorites tend to change. My favorite version of this particular sandwich has: red tomato and lettuce. Also, slightly crispy bacon that's not flimsy or burnt. Bacon that's firm, but not over done. Those three ingredients between rye bread with mayonnaise spread on it.
First off, obviously the bacon can be cooked to different degrees. I'm pretty sure that bacon is already cooked when it's packaged, don't hold me to it though. Therefore, I suppose you could eat uncooked bacon from the package and put it on a BLT, but I would never. I doubt it tastes good, but I prefer a bit of crunch to my bacon, so I would never eat it uncooked anyway. At any rate, you can put slightly cooked, half done or burnt bacon on your BLT. The burnt will have the strongest taste and will therefore have the greatest impact on the overall taste of the sandwich you put it on, in this case the BLT. I like mine cooked to a medium amount of done.
Moving on to the next ingredient, lettuce. Believe it or not, lettuce can have a bit of an impact on sandwiches. The first thing worth noting is that you should thoroughly rinse you lettuce. Whether it came from a place that uses pesticides, or just plain has dirt on it, it is good to rinse lettuce thoroughly. I'm sure that you would hate to taste dirt or be poisoned. Aside from that, lettuce can be bland which is why in a salad it is usually accompanied by a dressing. Sense lettuce doesn't have the most flavor ever, I put one slice of it, roughly bread size, on the BLT. If I put too much on it gets everywhere.
Also, the tomato can have a variety of flavors (or it can be just plain bland) depending on the kind of tomato plant. Tomatoes come in more then one color and each color varies in taste. It's kind of hard to put cherry tomatoes on a BLT, though I suppose you could. Honestly, I've never tried it before; you'd have to slice them and then lay them flat on the sandwich. However, cherry tomatoes is more of a salad conversation. Personally, I just buy the cheapest tomatoes because, in my BLT, I look more for the taste of the bacon.
And lettuce not forget the bread on either side! Like a said in my Grilled Cheese post, I hadn't always considered other bread besides white bread. Now that I've tried many different kinds of breads on a BLT, I would have to say that rye bread is my favorite bread to use for it. If you mayonnaise the bread to much, the first taste that it is going to cover up is the taste of the bread.
BLT, being my favorite sandwich, made me consider whether or not I really wanted to experiment with its formula. After all, it was already good, why risk it? I'll tell you why, it could've gotten better, and it did. I changed the bread from white to rye. If I had decided that I didn't like a specific kind of bread I would have just used it for something else anyways, so no waste there.
First off, obviously the bacon can be cooked to different degrees. I'm pretty sure that bacon is already cooked when it's packaged, don't hold me to it though. Therefore, I suppose you could eat uncooked bacon from the package and put it on a BLT, but I would never. I doubt it tastes good, but I prefer a bit of crunch to my bacon, so I would never eat it uncooked anyway. At any rate, you can put slightly cooked, half done or burnt bacon on your BLT. The burnt will have the strongest taste and will therefore have the greatest impact on the overall taste of the sandwich you put it on, in this case the BLT. I like mine cooked to a medium amount of done.
Moving on to the next ingredient, lettuce. Believe it or not, lettuce can have a bit of an impact on sandwiches. The first thing worth noting is that you should thoroughly rinse you lettuce. Whether it came from a place that uses pesticides, or just plain has dirt on it, it is good to rinse lettuce thoroughly. I'm sure that you would hate to taste dirt or be poisoned. Aside from that, lettuce can be bland which is why in a salad it is usually accompanied by a dressing. Sense lettuce doesn't have the most flavor ever, I put one slice of it, roughly bread size, on the BLT. If I put too much on it gets everywhere.
Also, the tomato can have a variety of flavors (or it can be just plain bland) depending on the kind of tomato plant. Tomatoes come in more then one color and each color varies in taste. It's kind of hard to put cherry tomatoes on a BLT, though I suppose you could. Honestly, I've never tried it before; you'd have to slice them and then lay them flat on the sandwich. However, cherry tomatoes is more of a salad conversation. Personally, I just buy the cheapest tomatoes because, in my BLT, I look more for the taste of the bacon.
And lettuce not forget the bread on either side! Like a said in my Grilled Cheese post, I hadn't always considered other bread besides white bread. Now that I've tried many different kinds of breads on a BLT, I would have to say that rye bread is my favorite bread to use for it. If you mayonnaise the bread to much, the first taste that it is going to cover up is the taste of the bread.
BLT, being my favorite sandwich, made me consider whether or not I really wanted to experiment with its formula. After all, it was already good, why risk it? I'll tell you why, it could've gotten better, and it did. I changed the bread from white to rye. If I had decided that I didn't like a specific kind of bread I would have just used it for something else anyways, so no waste there.
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Grilled Cheese
I like many varieties of sandwiches. Many of which I will explore over the next few posts, or more. Each kind of sandwich has its own qualities. (And even the simplest sandwiches can go wrong, but this isn't the most disastrous sandwiches in America or anything, so I won't really go into that.) I shall start off by talking Grilled Cheese.
What could be more delicious than a slab of cheese between buttered bread grilled to perfection? Well, a BLT (bacon lettuce and tomato) because it's my favorite sandwich, but that's beside the point. Talking about grilled cheese seemed the right sandwich to start with, though.
At first I always made my grilled cheese with white bread and hadn't thought of trying it with any other bread for some reason. But later I decided to try with some other kinds and they came out half decent, though the white bread will always be my favorite bread for grilled cheese.
Buttering bread before putting it on the grill helps the crisping process. I've never used anything, but real butter for the buttering process; however, fake butter obviously isn't made the same way as real butter is, so it probably wouldn't come up with the same result in the grilled cheese.
What's the biggest factor in making grilled cheese? You guessed it! The cheese itself. From American to Swiss to provolone, each cheese brings quite the difference of flavor to the table.
Well, I hope you enjoyed that. I will just leave you with this beautiful picture of grilled cheese.
What could be more delicious than a slab of cheese between buttered bread grilled to perfection? Well, a BLT (bacon lettuce and tomato) because it's my favorite sandwich, but that's beside the point. Talking about grilled cheese seemed the right sandwich to start with, though.
At first I always made my grilled cheese with white bread and hadn't thought of trying it with any other bread for some reason. But later I decided to try with some other kinds and they came out half decent, though the white bread will always be my favorite bread for grilled cheese.
Buttering bread before putting it on the grill helps the crisping process. I've never used anything, but real butter for the buttering process; however, fake butter obviously isn't made the same way as real butter is, so it probably wouldn't come up with the same result in the grilled cheese.
What's the biggest factor in making grilled cheese? You guessed it! The cheese itself. From American to Swiss to provolone, each cheese brings quite the difference of flavor to the table.
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