Fancy Food Show ‘09
Thanks to FoodBuzz, I was able to attend the annual Fancy Food Show at the Javits center here in New York. The Fancy Food Show is a trade show showcasing all kinds of food from around the world, and is used as an opportunity for producers to find distributors, for distributors to find producers, for retailers to find products, for entrepreneurs to find inspiration, and for general networking. Here are my impressions of the final two (out of three) days of the show.
From the Onion: Taco Bell’s New Green Menu Takes No Ingredients from Nature
Oh man, this is too funny.
Taco Bell’s New Green Menu Takes No Ingredients From Nature
Haggis Haggis Haggis
I ALSO got haggis from our friend. Instead of veggie haggis they got me the real thing. The Real Thing! I have only seen it on tv, on the Travel Channel. Somehow I got the idea that I would totally love it. I’m cool with blood sausages so why not haggis? Oh was I wrong. I guess I don’t really know what haggis is. Apparently it’s not grind up beef parts but grind up lamb parts. I like lamb when it doesn’t really taste like lamb. Also by the time I got around to eating the haggis it was already a week old from it’s used by date. Oh well.
I just want to apologize for combining haggis with an English style breakfast. Sorry…heehee but I REALLY wanted baked beans. Oh and sorry for the English muffins. This meal took a long ass time to make. I started off by boiling the potatoes then when it was done I threw them onto a pan and started sauteing them. Also fun to note that I added Irish butter with the olive oil in the pan. When the potatoes started to brown I added mushroom that I had cooked earlier while the potatoes were boiling. Added salt and pepper and a generous sprinkle of Herbes de Provence. When that was done I started on cooking my chicken sausages and frying up 2 over easy eggs. Then I heated up another pan. I cut opened the haggis and roughly cut it into small cubes and threw them into the new pan. When the haggies was almost done browning I added 3 tomatoes that were cut into halves. Then opened the can of baked beans and just heated it up in a small pot. *Phew….and then it all came together onto 1 plate.
I took a giant bite of the haggis. I really wanted to like it but I was only able to eat another bite. It took me a while to realize why I didn’t like the taste of haggis. Like I said before I didn’t know it was made from sheep parts and I can’t really stand the strong smell/taste of lamb and haggis is a giant round thing of sheep bits. Oh well, but the baked beans, fried egg, potatoes and mushroom, chicken apple sausage, tomato, and English muffin were awesome.
7th Heaven ‘09
One of the best parts of the annual 7th Heaven Street Fair, held on Father’s Day Sunday and stretching all the way from Flatbush to 16th Street on 7th Ave, is that among all of the usual sausage & peppers and funnel cake trucks there are lots of local (and not so local) restaurants that come out to showcase their foods. Here’s a quick look at some of them.
Market Watch: Peaches
The first Farmer’s Market of the Summer proper did not disappoint. Although the sign claimed that these peaches were “tree-ripened” most of them were not quite ripe yet; I have two of them ripening on my kitchen counter right now.
Food And Sweet Trucks Adventure *Update Update
The Big Gay Ice Cream truck has always been one of those trucks that you just need to check Twitter constantly to know where it is. But thankfully not this weekend.
From their tweet:
“SATURDAY
From 3-6 I’ll be at a street fair on East 4th, between Bowery and 2nd. I’ll try to set up earlier…
From 7-9 I’m catering a wedding, so unless you’re on the guest list….
9 til I run out of cones, I’ll be somewhere in the Village. I’ll let you know that day.”
