New Orleans Food

I want to get all this food when I am back in New Orleans soon.

It all looks so good and I think I have had everything on this page. YEA!

I think they missed the pickled green beans and the king cake. (...someone must've ate those.)
I saw someone had "K&B Ice Cream" on thier page on Facebook, how'd that happen?
http://apps.facebook.com/a-taste-of-new-cefij/?link=dashboard&_fb_q=1
Oh I see, it reminds me of the old chain letters. It's just a little trickier now that it's online.
...Lucky Dogs too? I'm hungry.

I love New Orleans food.

Crawfish

I am dinner-time dreaming of crawfish today.
I want to eat some spicy crawfish and corn and potatoes with lemon and butter.
YUM! YUM! YUM!

"Get out of my head little dancing crawfish. ...out!"

Croissant Snack & Peanut Buuter and Jelly

I had a yummy croissant with cheese and pepperoni today for a quick lunchtime snack. Oh my goodness, it was so good.

I had a strawberry "Uncrustable" as well. It reminds me of the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches my mom would make in elementary school and pack in my lunch to take to school. It was a little nostalgia in my mouth. *wink*
...peanut butter and jelly - yea!
I often overlook that as a comfort food.

I had dinner with Matthew Rush and his boyfriend in Los Angeles the day that I left and we talked about comfort food. He likes meatloaf as a comfort food. We had fried chicken that was so good though, so that came up as a comfort food as well.
I have to tell you, the time I spent with Mattherw at dinner was really cool. He was much more down to earth than I expected.
He even had a fan come up to him at dinner and ask to take a photo with him. How cool is that?
Matthew Rush will be headlining the HustlaBall London with Johnny Hazzard. (...you heard it here first.)

Mostess Hostess

I think I found a little piece of heaven yesterday. I went to the Hostess Thrift Store in Glendale. It was FABULOUS!

I felt like I was in that show "Supermarket Sweep."
I went in there and just swooped cupcakes and pies, gummy fruit and Ho' Ho's, Ding Dongs, Twinkie Bites, 100 calorie "I don't know what they were's" and whatever looked fun and bad for me into a cart.
I was a pie madman. *wink*

When it was all said and done, I signed my $44.76 sales slip and headed out the door ready to gain more than just a smile.

I spent $44.76 with pies that are 5 for $1.00, and ummm... doughnuts that are a box for $1.25. Yeah...

I discovered "Zingers" which are raspberry iced cake with creamy filling. YUM!

Folks, this is the stuff my mom would have never put in my lunch box. ...but that I wished she did.

It's crazy this thrift store is all the items that are about to expire (I mean, PLEASE, do twinkies ever really expire?) are out of production, etc. or whatever.
I have been to one or two before.
I remember we stopped at one on one of our trips and the 6-10 porn stars that were in the car on the trip filed out and came back out licking his lips.
I am not new to the store as a whole, but this one, yes.
...but a new friend it is. *wink*

Call me white trash, that's fine. I have been called much worse. *wink* I still can't get enough. YUM!

As I checked out, the counter lady told me, "I don't know if I'd be too happy if I was your mom."

If you need anything, I will be rocking back and forth in the corner of the kitchen eating my pies. *wink*

Mrs. Fields

My mom got me some chocolates that are designed like Mrs. Fields cookie flavors.

Yummy, yummy, yummy!

When I worked at the mall in high school, I worked next to a Mrs. Fields and became such good friends with them that when they were busy and I was not at the store I worked at I would jump behind their cash register and help them ring up and make some more dough. *wink* I remember that the real Mrs. Fields is not a "Grandma-type" that you might think. Here is a photo that I found of Mrs. Fields. (...without her toddler children and hotel husband.) (Her husband worked for Holiday Inn.)
...but times must be tough for her, life is sweet and bitter at the same time, they just filed bankruptcy.

The chocolates still taste good and were such a treat, thanks Debby. (...that's my mom's name and Mrs. Fields first name. Mrs. Fields spells it with an "i" though.)

Dad's Dinner

My dad made this fierce dinner of pot roast and potatoes & carrots.

I've been talking about it all day, between Twitter and my blog, but man, it was scrumptious.

I had a cold glass of Community brand iced tea too that made the whole thing complete.

YUM! YUM! YUM!

Avacado Shake

When we were in San Francisco Sunday, we had breakfast at a diner with M&M (Mark and Mike) from GayChicago Magazine.
It was a rainy cold morning, but beautiful nonetheless and with great company.
After breakfast we drove back home to Los Angeles.
While we were at breakfast with no one named Tiffany, we saw a sign on the wall that said, "Avacado or Mocha Shake."
...that's a new flavor if you ask me.
Avacado?
If you have every had one, let me know what you think 'cause I don't want to knock it until I try it.

Doughnuts

Doughnuts.

I am still getting text messages about doughnuts.

HERE is where it all started.
...and it's not over yet.
I don't know that it will ever be.

I heard from the beautiful Andrew Justice (right) today with a text message that read, "Where are my damn doughnuts?" *hehe* (I got your damn doughnuts right here, mister!)
What a great way to start the day!

Sprinkles Cupcakes

Angel Benton just told me they are opening a new "Sprinkles" cupcakes on La Cienega just south of Santa Monica Blvd.
While the new location is not listed on the website and some quick investigation didn't turn anything up, I don't doubt Angel's sweet smell of Sprinkles.

You have to understand, these are not ordinary "cupcakes" these are a small, rich, divinely configured, confectionery experience.
I have been to the one in Beverly Hills and waited in the line down the street that are only news stories to most while Angel Benton was doing his laser hair removal in Beverly Hills one time.
Plus, I can think back when I was a young lad this year, and I also had the single cupcake that changed my cupcake like when the angel that is Angel Benton brought me into the Sprinkles world with when he did his story for his Japanese news show.

It's very "Pinkberry" in operation and attention.
It's a trendy, chic and exciting sort of fad in food.
It's almost sexy, status symbol that you eat.

Check out www.sprinklescupcakes.com and see for yourself what the fuss is about.

...this is serious stuff folks.
You can laugh, go ahead, but until you understand the power of a single Spinkles cupcake, I suggest you bite your lip and wait until your tongue tastes the goodness. *wink* (Damn, that was dramatic. ...and I love it.)

Crackers

Tatum, one of the boys that is staying with me, is a talented cook. I think he should get a job where can celebrate how good he is at that.

He made crackers the other day from scratch. ...like from flour and whatever else you make crackers with. I mean, it was kind of neat, I don't know that I have ever seen anyone MAKE crackers. They were spicy and yummy.

I am used to being called a cracker, not eating them after they are warm and come out of the oven.

Millions of Milkshakes

There is this new and fun place in Los Angeles where the Mrs. Fields used to be in West Hollywood. (Sorry, girl, you have been replaced. The boys are after different cookies now.) It would be fierce and awful, not awfully fierce, if the place offered Mrs. Fields cookies in the shakes. *hehe*

It's called "Millions of Milkshakes" and while you can find it's literal home on San Vicente and Santa Monica at the gay Mecca, the online home can be found at www.millionsofmilkshakes.com.

If you are are familiar with Pinkberry, it's like Pinkberry on a colorful, sugar rush. (If you are not familiar with Pinkberry, pull yourself together. Where have you been?)

M.O.M (Millions of Milkshakes) has an outrageous combination of items you can have made and blended into your shakes. Prepare yourself and check out the menu HERE.

The owners personal website can be found at www.sheeraz.com and is just as interesting. He calls it the "Muslim-American's Dream."

I have been to visit M.O.M. a few times and enjoyed it each time.
One time I went with Howard and we came out with more than just a milkshake. He had a hot new model that somehow ended up with a porn name that reminded me alot of my legal name. *wink*
Another time, I took the boys who were helping me set up at [CockBlock] a shake made to personal order. YUM!

I feel particularly indulgent when I leave the pink palace of frosty goodness and enjoy the thick, big and colorful straws and inordinate choices I have in making my milkshake concoction. (My dad likes milkshakes, he would get a kick out of this place.)

Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray probably didn't have to achy-breaky anything but the crowd when they tried her own namesake drink. (They have several celebrity named shake flavors to choose from if you can't make up your own damn mind.) Paris has done it, so I mean, really, you should too. Right? *wink*
So, drink up and enjoy it if you are out an about in West Hollywood.

Red Velvet Cake

Thanks to Howard at FabScout and Billy Masters last week, I can't stop thinking about "Red Velvet Cake." I had a few bites of Howard's yumminess (...his cake that is.) at 'The Abbey' with him and it's driving me crazy.

Care to know the history? ...not me, I just want to eat it and make my own history. *wink*

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 1/2 oz red food coloring
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1 tablespoons vinegar

Preparation:

Cream shortening; beat in sugar gradually. Add eggs, one at a time; beat well after each addition. Make paste of cocoa and food coloring; add to creamed mixture. Add salt, flour and vanilla alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Sprinkle soda over vinegar; pour vinegar over batter. Stir until thoroughly mixed. Bake in 3 8-inch pans or 2 9-inch pans for 30 minutes at 350°.

Chocolate Chip Pancake on a Stick

...does this sound appealing to you? Yuck.

Gross Candy

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Roscoe's Chicken N Waffles II

Angel Benton, Tommy Defendi and I went to Roscoe's House of Chicken' n Waffles last night.
You have to understand the concept of the place to get our involvement in it. It's like a Southern Baptist, African-American, Soul Food experience.

They have a movie, click the image to check it out. Whoa.

I had a yummy sweet tea sitting separated atop some "pucker-up" lemonade that I had to stir up some trouble, I mean stir up the drink with my straw that went right to my soul, I tell you. YUM! YUM!

Past the libation, we quickly received our food order as well with me having a 'Carol C. Special' and a traditional New Orleans Monday treat of red beans and rice.

(Why Monday for red beans and rice? I remember this from high school actually. I told Angel when he asked last night. "Dirty laundry. Shhhh, you are trying to ruin an entire city by questioning it. It's Monday, that's the way things are.")

Angel opted for 'Scoe's' and Mr. Defendi had a chicken sandwich. BORING!

I had a lot of fun with the two sweet Suite 703 boys in a different suite.

There is this older black man, I have heard him called Mr. John I think, at the Hollywood location that I think is so cool. He's always there and cool as can be. I don't know what he does, I think he's the host, he carries menus around, but if I don't see him, I don't think it's going to be the same.

National Cheesecake Day

No joke, today is 'National Cheesecake Day
and the Cheesecake Factory is offering $1.50 slices today.
Cheesecake is one of my, if not my favorite, food.

The big cheese of cheesecake, The Cheesecake Factory, is turning the big 3-0 and throwing a party with (cheese)cake for all of its guests. In conjunction with National Cheesecake Day, all locations of the restaurant—first opened in 1978 in Beverly Hills by former law student and rock drummer David Overton to showcase his mother’s desserts—will offer up every slice of its more than 30 varieties of cheesecake at the 1978 price of $1.50 (limited to one per guest, you glutton). ...for more CLICK HERE

Free McDonald's Chicken Buscuit

I received a few emails this morning about McDonald's free chicken biscuit's they are giving away tomorrow.
It makes me laugh, do my friends all know I can't wait until the morning now or what?
Visit http://cep.mcdonalds.com/foodnews/biscuit/ to find out more.

Loaded Steakhouse Burger

I tried the new Loaded Steakhouse Burger from Burger King today. I wanted it to be so good. I really did.

Burger King's press release about the burger made my mouth water.

The new sandwiches beef up BURGER KING® restaurant’s burger menu with steakhouse-quality ingredients, including A.1.® Thick & Hearty steak sauce, creamy baked potato topping and crispy onions. Both sandwiches are made with a 100 percent Angus beef patty that is seasoned to perfection, made fresh to order and set atop a corn-dusted bakery bun.

The description and the photo I saw at the drive through window, didn't match what I ate.

Even worse, I ordered a salad instead of french fries in order to make myself feel like I was doing the healthy thing and the "salad" was a heap of lettuce with a slice of tomato cut in half on top. There was something that looked like a carrot shaving too.
I feel like a rabbit.

I love THIS description someone else had of the burger.

You can catch me at Wendy's next week trying the new Spicy Baconator sandwich.

My Milkshake

Now that Rusty's not here, Fabrice is out working the lower left quadrant of the United States, (I mean working for real, he's on tour already.) and no one had spent the night at the 'Pimp Plaza' and I had just woken up at 5:20pm from Saturday, mealtime is a little different than it used to be.

I went to the kitchen, and figured out what I was going to have to make myself for breakfast that really was about to be dinner.
Cereal? I did that yesterday?
Yogurt? I had that in the middle of the night last night. (...or was that day, I don't remember.)
I could make some hamburger and then get out the Hamburger Helper, but that's so much work. Thawing, mixing, etc. Nope.
At the end of last week I made some chicken in the George Foreman grill that was super good and I even had enough to take to work the next day. I made half with cajun spices and black pepper and the other half I let marinate in Italian dressing for a day. They were both super good.

However, tonight, dinner was talking on a new shape.
I just made a chocolate chip, cookie dough, milkshake with some amaretto liquor that was so yummy.

I am not worried about my milkshake bringing anyone to the yard, so I made a milkshake for one. I put a couple of scoops of ice cream in the glass, (...well plastic cup actually, I have had a mishap in the kitchen with glass before.) poured in the 1% milk and then a small amount of amaretto for flavor and stirred it.
It was a little hard to stir, and I did get frustrated and spilled a bit, but it's okay. I did think about it, but I didn't want to break out the big ole' blender just for this small concoction. It was worth the effort, and it was so good.