I love Robert Irvine. I'm so glad they brought him back for DI.

Couldn't decide whether or not to post this here or in the Twitter thread, but I think it has more to do with food:

List of Street Food Vendor Carts/Trucks Using Twitter

From Serious Eats blog.

To add: The Korean Taco Cart people got rave reviews from a trusted pal.

I had this great grilled chicken burrito for lunch. Mmm Mmm! It was tasty! You should all be jealous because it was THAT good. ;)

Snapshots from South Korea: Fried Things on Sticks

The potato tornado. Nuff said.

Beanzawave!

World's smallest microwave (USB-powered, no less) unveiled in the UK.

I totally want a Beanzawave!

I know the cilantro discussion has crested and fallen, but I will mention, though I don't utterly hate it (it's fine in moderation in certain dishes), I resent it a lot. I love Mexican food, but I want it to taste like it did when I was a youngster. Cilantro completely took over all American Mexican cuisine sometime in the last two decades, and it makes me very sad. Even in my native New Mexico, lots of restaurants have decided to go with the trendiness and cilantro-ize what used to be to-die-for chile based sauces and salsas. It's just wrong. Give me back my traditional Mex and let the cilantro fans have a new category all their own.

Gad, I want an enchilada right now.

Potato tornado... awesome.

I've had something very similar to the Potato Tornado at the Central Florida Fair. (Main difference - no stick) It was heaven until it made me sick later in the day.

Had to come back and say I had something similar to the Potato Tornado mentioned above: Ribbon Fries



(If that image breaks, I'll post a new one tomorrow, or something)

Was a bit much, and I expect that the potato tornado would be much less greasy.


In other foodie news, up until an Iron Chef episode about a year ago, I'd never head of opah. Looked cool, but hey... I'm in Utah. What are the chances I'd ever see opah here, and have it actually be remotely fresh?

Well, turns out that we've got a brand new fish monger that wants to give norther Utah what it hasn't really had before. Fresh. Fish.

I was turned onto this new establishment by a friend that is a pescatarian (yeah... she eats only fish). Needless to say, she has issue with the lack of quality out here and was happily surprised by this place. She even brought in some peel and eat shrimps she'd cooked up. Oh yeah... I noticed that I've only had shrimp that good off the Gulf of Mexico. No funny taste, no nuthin' but shrimpy goodness... so I had to try it myself.

Guess what I saw today when I dropped by there for the first time. Three guesses, and the first two don't count:

Opah.

I decided to crust it with crushed almond and panko bread crumbs, sear it with some peanut oil and a little fresh garlic.

Oh. My. God.

Not sure I've had fish this good in a long time... not even in California. Maybe in Florida, but I'm not even sure of that.

I love opah.

Maybe The Secret really works. Thanks Oprah.