App Menu That is Just Odd Pt. 1

Deviled Eggs stuffed with pickled jalapeno, bacon, and herb salsa
Ricotta Toast with english peas, and pea shoots olive oil on “seeded” bread
Edamame quick blanced and seasoned with jalapeno salt
Stuffed celery sticks filled with peanut butter and dried fruit

Actual app menu from a restaurant. Prices range from 5.00 to 8.00.
Me? There is no way I would spend 5.00 pm any one of the options. Deviled eggs and ants on a log? In what is trying to be upscale?

It does not bode well.

The Silly

I have a friend, hard to believe that. That is totally Vegan. When he informed me that he only ate Vegan, I asked who she was. He said that he had thought about Vegan for a while. Again I asked who she was. Yep.
A couple years have passed and he is no longer pushing his friends to convert. Well not harshly admonishing the Omnivore crowd as much.
Recently he cited an article about chicken farms. I posted back that said farm is regulated by the FDA and USDA standards. Several of his hipster friends posted that all chickens needed to be free to fly.
I couldn’t help myself when I pointed out chickens really don’t fly much. I then tried to explain and even sent the proper links to the USDA definition of free range, organic, fresh, etc.
For some reason, there were crickets from the “let them all be free to roam” friends of his.
Wait till he posts about pigs. I am so ready!

Ambitious Menus

For some reason, folks that have no experience in the restaurant biz keep opening places and can’t seem to figure out why the customers don’t beat a path to the door.
There is a place that has a great location in a small town just outside the Austin, Texas area. It has had 6 owners in 5 years and many many menus.
The current one for the place that calls itself “homespun” and offering a full bar. They added a playground for the kids. I already smell bad idea.
The menu they have posted (they are not open yet) features Cajun, Creole, German, typical BBQ, Steaks, Chops, Italian (lasagna and ravioli), and French options as well as a separate menu with gluten free options.
The options are all over the map. This isn’t fusion, it is a mutt!
One has to question how good any of the choices? This is a place that can only seat 40 guests at any given time. The choice to have a massive (3 page) dinner menu is a hot mess. It screams throw every thing against the wall and see what sticks. Meanwhile, the food costs are going to kill them.
Hope I am wrong but I am thinking owner number 7 is on the horizon before 2014 is over.
Sigh

I have been asked if it is true, yes is the answer

Are some kitchens that disgusting? Yep
Do people do things as seen in the documentary Waiting? Uh huh
Is there a health department? Sure. Depends on your area for standards.

I have worked in the cleanest of lines and the walk ins are pretty perfect (sometimes you get a lug of fruit that has a bad piece-it happens). It is up to the Chef and Owners to determine if product will be used.

Working in a small cafe, the owner determined that although 1 box of fresh eggs had been slightly frozen, they were to be used anyway. Many of the shells had cracked and IMHO thrown out. Salmonella any one?

Items left in the temperature danger zone is sadly all too common.

There are only a few places where I would eat at a buffet and a certain chain with the chocolate fountains is not one of them. Some folks do not grasp the whole double dipping (especially children) and so NO!

There was the chain restaurant where I worked that didn’t have a restroom for staff. I saw a waitress use a stall and then walk out without bothering to wash her hands. WHAT?????

The dark side of eating out, even at large corporate chains is scary.

This makes my teeth hurt

Another “MUST DO THIS” on a FB feed. Calls for a lot of sugar and butter IMHO
We found this recipe and it had no name…

I only know it should be illegal!!!

Ingredients:
-2 cans Pillsbury butter crescent rolls
-2 (8oz) packages cream cheese (softened)
-1 cup sugar
-1 teaspoon vanilla
-1/4 cup butter (melted)
-Cinnamon & sugar (I used about 1/4 cup sugar and 1 tbs cinnamon)

Instructions:
Unroll and spread 1 can crescent rolls on bottom of un-greased pan. Combine softened cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla. Spread mixture over crescent rolls. Unroll and spread remaining crescent rolls over mixture. Spread melted butter over the top and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes. share***share***share*** http://www.kitty62.skinnybodycare.com

Broccoli Soup

First thoughts, WHY? what is the point? If you are going to buy a can of soup just buy the damn broccoli cheese soup already!

Broccoli Cheese Soup for the Crock Pot!!!

1/2 cup onion, chopped
2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine
1 (10 ounce) can cream of chicken soup
1 1/2 cups milk 1 lb Velveeta cheese, cubed
1 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped broccoli

Directions: 1 Sauté onion and in butter. 2 Combine all ingredients on low in crockpot for 3-4 hours. Do not add salt.
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