Beaver Queen Pageant 2011

It's that time of year again.  Thankfully slightly cooler than last year.

Best Canoe snack

While I love to have some outdoor adventure like canoeing, really I like to plan out a lovely snack or meal to eat outdoors.  Here we have nice little salad I made from the framers market (mostly) made up of strawberry, blueberry, butter lettuce, goat cheese and toasted almonds.  I put the raspberry vinaigrette dressing I made in a separate container.

Kerr, Kamping, and kooking

I had not been camping at Kerr Lake in ages.  I headed out with the group of friends for a short overnighter of car camping on the edge of the lake.  The nice thing about car camping is that you can bring all the delicious food you want.  I love cooking outdoors by fire or charcoal assisted fire.  It just makes the food taste better.  The dinner menu included grilled shrimp, sweet potatoes from our friends garden, salad from her garden also, and couscous (if you can make water boil you can make couscous).  It was a feast.  We also had fun attempting to get the Jiffy pop to pop over the fire.  Don't worry no one was injured by flying corn (we had a slightly defective unit).

Breakfast was all the way.  Bacon, french toast, and biscuits with homemade strawberry jam.  I will invite these friends camping anytime.

PIZZA truck heaven in Durham part II

Another blissful lunch eating from a Durham Food truck.  I ordered two slices - one cheese and one margarita.  Both delicious.  The crust is thin with a nice crunchy bottom.  The cheese is good mozzarella, the kind that leaves it a bit greasy on top.  Nice size slices for 3 to 3.50. No line for me but maybe I am just special.  Check them out on their twitter. 


Food:  If you like thin crust pizza, you will love it.  I like all pizza.  The pizza is warmed up in what looked to me like a full sized at least double decker pizza oven.  Nice and hot with out burning the tip of your mouth.


Service:  No line for me.  It only took a few minutes to warm up.  I find most food truck venders to be very nice and friendly and this was no exception.  Service on a paper plate with napkins.  But bonus points for the recycle bin outside the truck (see above picture).


Atmosphere:  Despite the tornado watch it was not raining when I walked up to the truck at the green wall space at Main  St.  Good idea to walk to lunch. 

Red Ducks bad for streams!

Flat Stanley Guest Blogger! Panko Tofu

Flat Stanley is visiting us from an elementary school in Maryland and has requested to be a guest blogger - Take it away, Stanley:


Stanley:  There were chopping noises and yummy smells coming from the kitchen so I silently crept in. Paper does not make very much noise.  My vacation hostess was holding a big knife and slicing and dicing all sorts of colorful things.

Turns out it was red and orange bell pepper (not the hot kind), cabbage, green onions, garlic and ginger.   She already had cut the tofu into cubes, covered them with Panko and fried them in a pan.  Panko is not some kind of pokemon character, it is just big bread crumbs. The cooked Panko tofu is in the lower right hand corner of the picture above.


Then suddenly, she took the cutting board where all the colorful items were and just swept them right into the hot pan.  Don't worry I stood way back.  She put the cooked tofu in the pan also and stirred it all around. Wammo, it was done.  Here I am taking a little taste - Yum! Just like the name of this blog - Bites of Yum.  

Blogging is fun.  I could talk all day.  There was this big truck you see...


See you next time when I will Panko chicken, then cheese, then broccoli. Who knows what I will Panko next?


Flat Stanley

Marry Durham - Best Marriage Ever

So far so good on my marriage to Durham.  Check out the choppy love story.  They even had fake protesters!  Awesome.

Marry Durham - March 19th

where is my favorite veil?

Food trucks will be everywhere, yeah!

http://marrydurham.com/

Fulsom Beaver Beaver Queen Pageant 2010

Here is another video of the Banditos from last year to get you excited about the upcoming April music gig at the Casbah.

PIZZA truck heaven in Durham!

So it is monday, and windy and sunny and there is pizza.  I ran down to Carolina Theater to catch Klausie's Pizza truck for lunch.  I had a slice of veggie and a slice of cheese, yum.  This is not your thin triangle pizza.  It is a square piece with a puffy crust.  Somewhat light on sauce which I like.  The veggies were chopped into pleasing micro cubes (brunoise).  Follow the facebook or twitter.  They are  from Raleigh but that is OK.

I fought the log

Get ready for Beaver Pageant 2011 by brushing up on last year!

Sausage Truck HEAVEN in Durham

Ok, that was an awesome lunch.  I walked to CCB Plaza to the Farmhand Food Sausage truck (windy mid 50's).  I ordered a polish sausage with pimento cheese.  The bun, lovely crispy, with two sausages inside with the pimento cheese generously around them, slightly melted. We sat outside in the sun for some Vitamin D.  My buddy ordered the veggie sandwich of chutney and I think goat cheese which he loved also.  

Find the Sausage Wagon (on twitter), you will be glad you did!


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ubuntu + old laptop + evernote = happy recipes in the kitchen

So what does ubuntu and linux have to do with food?  Well, follow me on this path of happy reuse. So I have an old laptop with windows XP on it.  It takes like a half hour to boot.  I tried reinstalling windows and it did not help.  Now, I have wanted a laptop in the kitchen (it is an eat in kitchen) to look up my recipes that I have on Evernote (a cloud based notetaker with great tagging capabilities).  So poof, I deleted windows and installed linux ubuntu.(FREE)  Well, it does take a bit longer than that.  Now I can access my online evernote account with all my recipes.  Also, check the weather (really, are we that obsessed with the weather, yes).  I need to get out more.