Grilled chicken, maple glazed bacon, apple jalapeño slaw, pickles, chipotle ranch, BBQ sauce, cilantro on a baguette.
$10.00
The baguette is only eight inches but it's packed and I mean packed.
It already has the coleslaw on it, but I ordered two sides of the slaw because one side is not enough.
The sandwiches are awesome but not epic. That's just a bit of hyperbole. And they say epiq, not epic.
And coleslaw
Thai President Foods PCL is based in Bangkok. Established in 1972. It makes the instant noodle brand MAMA. It is the largest instant noodle manufacturer in Thailand with 53% of the market in 2015.
The company has a sordid history due to Thailand politics. The name changed, the ownership changed, the laws changed, the government changed along the way all leading to suppressed sales.
The company has factories in Lamphun, Si Racha, Rayong with two factories in Ratchaburi in Thailand with additional factories in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Hungary with two production lines. The company is building additional factories in Myanmar and in Cambodia.
They had 15.8 billion baht in sales in 2015. They also sell parboiled rice, baked products, confectionery, wheat flour, dry vegetables, noodles and seasonings, soft drinks, fruit juice, herbal juice and dairy products. 1 Thai bat = 3¢. It turns out about 511 million US dollars in sales. I think.
These packages were ordered through Amazon marketed as Mama Rare 9 Flavors Instant Noodles Best Sellers. Come on. They're either best sellers or they are rare. Maybe they're rare for Amazon in America and best sellers elsewhere.
These took so long to be delivered I forgot that I ordered them. Ordered on June 21 delivered July 26. Amazon doesn't even know they've been delivered. They're still expecting them to be delivered by August 2. They were $15.10 for 8 packages, that's $1.89 each.
The packaging has no English. The translator app is virtually useless except in rare cases such as "fried prawns" for example and "hot and spicy" for another. The rest says "instant noodles" and the like with other words in a foreign language switching around. We have to guess by the photos on the package.
Other Mama products are labeled in English.
Salami, pepperoni, sausage, basil, mushrooms, bacon and sun dried tomatoes.
Denver Pizza Co. menu.
Size medium, 6" cost: $1,000,000.00
Not really.
But all the sizes are smaller than you think, medium is actually quite small and x-large isn't so big after all, and the cost is always more than you're used to spending for pizza.
Come on. It's bread with stuff sprinkled on top.
And when you make them yourself you load the toppings on liberally, but Denver Pizza Co is always so reasonable, so cautious, so conservative, so balanced.
And everything is already right there, already prepared. They reach into a container and grab the cheese already grated and sprinkle it on, then reach into a container and grab some sausage and sprinkle it on, then reach into a container and grab some prepared bacon bits and sprinkle them on, and so on, whereas at home each element must be grated, sliced, chopped, opened, peeled, just for one pizza. And it's a huge mess. Fun. But a mess.
But is all that really worth $16.00 for a medium/small pizza or $24.00 for a slightly large XL-in name only pizza? Yes!
Because they're totally ace.
When you order online they charge $2.00 for delivery but honestly I don't know what that goes to. It's not enough tip for a delivery person.
So I add $10.00 tip to the driver.
On an order totaling $21.00 with tax and delivery surcharge and two Coca-Colas.
So then, $31.00 for a small/medium pizza. Two meals for me.
And it is pizza perfection.
The pizza box fit inside my little cart.
OMG, I love young people so much I could squeeze their guts out.
I love their energy. Their optimism. I love observing them facing their challenges. I love being allowed to participate. Even in such a small way.
Our front door security has been down for a month and the call-box out of order. The door doesn't work. It's always such a drag anyway. So I went down to the street to meet the delivery in the front intending to take up through the back.
Denver Pizza always underpromises and over-delivers. They say allow sixty minutes then they deliver within fifteen minutes.
I hastened downstairs with my little old man cart to bring the pizza up to my apartment. I cannot walk and hold a pizza. Maybe I can. I never tried it. Yes, in fact I can. But it would be unsteady. I met the delivery person downstairs outside.
As it turns out, the door and call box are repaired so that wasn't necessary.
A small young man with dark skin and very long dark hair parked right in front. I greeted him as he exited his car. A mini Jesus dressed in drab browns emerging from a dark little car. "Good," he's thinking, he doesn't have to buzz in, ride up the elevator and find the apartment. It's a lot easier.
I handed him the $10.00 bill and his mood elevated noticeably immediately. Suddenly from drably overworked to cheerful. A small thing like that makes a big difference for young people working in service industries. It signifies that we understand each other. They remind me of myself at that age. And I remind them of someone in their life who is magnanimous toward them. There is an instant affection. An instant change. When they smile their eyes and their teeth literally light up the darkness of night and a connection of fondness is made between generations.
However minimal, evanescent and brief. Poof. Gone.
Nongshim, "Farmer's heart" is a South Korean beverage and food company headquartered in Seoul. Their logo is a seed; a red horizontal oval containing a smaller white vertical oval inside the red oval at top center, somewhat like a cartoon eye.
These are the beans used in French cassoulets. They're ridiculously expensive compared to other beans available in America.
I bought them to plant. Their germination rate is pathetic.
A whole jar soaked as bean sprouts failed to germinate.
I checked to make sure they were not imported to lessen the likelihood of being irradiated but they were inert. The seed bought from seed stores failed to germinate.
Out of hundreds of seeds planted there is only one good plant. It's grown up a trellis and then a up a bamboo pole from a large pot to the roof of my terrace. It's now curling around at the tip of the bamboo pole.
The leaves that get partial sun burn in Colorado direct sun for part of the day. The leaves that stay in the shade do better. A few other plants germinated too but they are not growing so well as that one.
I still have the whole bag, I still have room in some pots and I still have time in the season to keep trying. I might try to germinate them inside and possibly keep them inside at the windows. I don't know yet. I'd like them to fill out the trellis. They're very discouraging for beans. I planted them three times.
One time I bought a bag of grocery store pinto beans and planted the whole 1lb bag at my parents home. They ALL germinated into a fantastic little bean patch. It was pure joy to watch grow. I didn't have a clue what I was doing but they grew very well as small bushes. Even the rabbits liked hanging out in the bean patch.
This is the beef and the sauce that George made.
Indomie is a brand produced by an Indonesian company Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk with manufacturing plants in Indonesia and Nigeria. Indo stands for Indonesia and mia is the Indonesian word for noodles. So Indomie means Indonesian noodles.
Indomie goreng is fried noodles without soup. There are several varieties; Indomie kuah with soup, Indomie Jumbo, Mi Keriting premium curly noodle and Taste of Asia among others.
This type contains two sachets of flavorings. One sachet has three segments that hold sweet soy sauce, chili sauce and seasoned oil with fried onion flakes. The other sachet has two segments of dry ingredients, one with dry seasoning powder and the other with flake of fried shallot.
The packages are not filling. If you're hungry then prepare two.
In some areas a jumbo package is available.
The packages contain phenylalanine and monosodium glutamate. The flavor enhance 631 might be prepared from meat or from dried sardines. And flavor enhancer is isolated from sardines or yeast extract. The inclusion of these flavor enhancers means they might not be suitable for vegans and vegetarians.
This Indomie Mi Goreng is on most of the top 10 favorite lists online. Some YouTube videos show preparers using only a few of the flavor sachets.
And that's just insane.
Apologies. It's all I got.
Two friends hosted a party for me and another friend for our birthdays being two days apart. That's okay, we claim the whole month. Birthmonth, not birthday.
A few years ago I gave them a Big Green Egg and they used it yesterday to smoke some kind of beef. It was a lower-end cut but they cooked it so long that it tenderized beautifully. I brought some home.
I also bought them a bag of Fogo wood charcoal so they used that too. Very convenient, just had Amazon send it to them.
The beef was shredded and mixed with homemade bbq sauce. So each person had a bbq beef sandwich.
They also made two salads that were very good, one is jicama with other vegetables and a sweet dressing, the other was fruit salad. Both excellent.
So, a simple meal of three things. Plus I drank 3 Coca-Colas.
Somebody else drank 1oz of vodka, and that's it.
My, how we've matured. Can you imagine a party that served only 1oz of vodka?
And several beers?
It rained like mad.
And I mean mad. Downpour, actually. Heavy. It caused floods and people got stuck all over the place.
Apologies. I forgot to take pictures until the end.
Apparently my camera didn't focus.
I changed the settings and the focus was supposed to be automatic.
Instant mashed potatoes.
Frozen beef burgundy.
It's like NASA up in here.
