There's A Time For Every Burger!

                   Have you ever heard the cliche " Eat through the pain".Well,  Sometimes we have good days, and sometimes we have bad days. So it went with me and several of my Copines: I remember when we'd come home from school, stop at the corner store, then meet at the castle (my house), and talk- OK Gossip- while we ate our food. Now, we weren't eating twelve thousand Twinkies, and shoving ice cream down our throats, with our double chins. We just chilled. Uh! We had the most POPPIN times EVER! However, I began to notice something during those times...We were all dangerously-literally- in love with burgers. We all had a different kind, but a burger nonetheless. I observed further and saw that we each had different types of food with different moods - which I discovered by talking to them. 

                       

                  More often, I saw that not just me and my friends ate different food with different moods but, according to Jack challem author of "The Nutrition Reporter" Magazine, that people in general did. Most likely they didn't do it intentionally, but more so habitually. It's like being married you come home from work everyday, kiss your husband or wife, and whatever else you do.That's a routine and believe it or not... After a while it becomes habitual; something you do because you're used to doing it. So pertaining to me and those around me, our "Habitual" food is BURGERS! You should see how I turn into a lion,  prowling and roaring for stake at the sound of that word. And even more interesting, the saliva that practically pours out of my mouth, enough to make the desert a teeming forest. Hey what can I say? That's just what burgers do to me. I eat them because I love them.                     

                      So after discovering that it was normal to have a certain "habitual", or fave. food. A burger is a food, that comes in varieties so, I decided I'd go light and halfheartedly in depth as to what Burgers I like, and What burgers are for What time:

  This would be for some one who's feeling good, and is in for a toasty, cheesy, and home-style burger.(Been there, done that, love it.) 

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   Well... OK I'm just gonna come right out with this: That's a problem...This is inhumanely large for the one who's over the edge and wants to really eat through the pain.(This is usually a suicide warning)

  This is perfect for days, you're honestly just craving dangerously-  good FOOD! Goes great for after two hours of band practice @ west side (NEWARK). or Howard U. (D.C)

This perfecto for those great days, the ones where you did everything right, and made all your haters feel " swole". The type of day you walk around with the "P"on your chest, and wearing extra swagger. (Yeah I'm so descriptive because those days are my middle name.)

If you're feeling a little...You know.(practice makes perfect!) according to Sue Roberts author of "Does food Affect Mood?", food can affect how you feel in a number of different ways. You May be able to find this portion of the article at: http://www.suite101.com/content/does-food-affect-mood-a36731 if you use that link you shouldn't  have to pay.(it is a magazine)

Ah well, I think this is self explanatory...You'd obviously be feeling crappy if you'd eat such a Crapolicious burger. Flat burnt out (I know I'm shot out you don't even gotta tell me) Springboard Press said it right in their new book, "The Good Mood Diet: Feel great when you loose weight". An important step to a Good mood "is recognizing what foods make you feel awful and put you in a bad mood."

                Now the question is: In essence, Why am I even telling you all this? No, I'm not extremely random, or dazed and confused. I've got all these crazy burgers and reasons for having them so what's the point? I'm missing one very important burger and with that an even more immense emotion, or time for eating it, n'est-Ce pas? Well, that is because this next burger is one of a kind; It is the burger that comes from the home of variety. You know the place where all the pretty (and ugly) creatures are somehow all related. I think we call it the ocean Yes! Now you read me- THE ONE. THE ONLY:  SEAFOOD BURGER! This is literally the best burger ever, and I will no longer conceal it from the rest of the world. It is the burger of self complacency and, the understanding that  one is humane. Once understanding that, you see that a routine is natural and may be good or bad, but you decided which it will be. My love may now become your love as well,  Here is the magic:

1. You may want to get some ground meat for the actual burger. Turkey or beef which ever you prefer by, what ever brand.

2. Season it with Sazon, seafood seasoning, onion powder, and Garlic by "Spice Classics" (that brand does matter.) and mix it into the meat.

3. Now you'll want to get out some seafood (Raw cocktail shrimp, lobster, is what I use) and steam, broil, or deep fry it.

4. Hopefully you see that it's better as well as, healthier to steam or broil, than to fry the seafood. when seafood is 1/2 way done make meat really flat like flat bread.

5. Then neatly layer your seafood (whole not grounded) onto the meat, and mix it like you'd do seasoning. and preheat grill. or skillet.

6.Let the meat sit tarrying in seasoning and seafood(this helps hem meat to get that natural seafood flavor). while grill preheats.

7. Now cook your food like you'd cook a burger and you get a nice, "sea delight"  burger STUFFED with SEAFOOD! yes,  eat,, cry, but EAT!

                   When I first decided to experiment by making this burger, I was unaware that there were already seafood burgers (AW Jinkeez). Yet, I now notice that according to http://www.wisegeek.com/ there is not any place where the seafood isn't grounded or processed into some mystery meat...YAY ME! I'm an entrepreneur after all. So, I sort of became like a guru after all this research, experiments, and (believe you me) a whole lot of failures...I now have conjured a proverb, that I will allow you to all hear(READ):

The Eating Cycle

(psalm to the day in the life of those who eat)

There's a time to Laugh and eat...A Burger

There's a time to cry and eat ...A burger

There's a time to open your mouth and eat...A burger

There's a time to sit down and eat... A burger

There's a time to come together and eat...A burger

There's a time to be alone and eat... A burger

There's a food for every time

HECK! There's always a time to eat...A burger...

The burger is the food for every time...

                             Now,  it's fine if you're just a little too shallow, and view this as some kind of joke. Yeah, it is redundant but here Mr.Shallow in case you didn't pick it up from the title the point is:The REDUNDANCY of food ( we eat it over and over, but it never gets old). ugh the shabang! In the point is dead once you have to explain it.

Cooking Dirt Will Start A Fight!

 So, I totally loved that little "Food blog competition" I did the other week, and I decided AWW! What the heck lets do it again, and Spice it up! Oh how I love flavor.Oh how I love Sugar.Oh how I hate Dirt. But yes, if You dig up the right kind, on the right thing (humans) you'll start a fight. But could you ever see that happening with food? AH HA It's the new kind of food fight where the food fights! So this Weeks Top five Food blogs Are:

1.Brown Butter Pear Crumble Cake- 80 breakfasts

2.Chocolate glazed Hazelnut Mouse cake- Bake or Break

3.Friends I Can Rely On- Cannelle et Vanille

4.Pan Fried Soft Crabs- Coconut & Lime

5.Dirt Cupcakes- Baking Bites

YEEEAAHHH BOY! I spiced it up alright. Flavor Flave can't yell it better than I can. So I've always been the one to hate drama that's why my friends are mostly boys. I absolutely abhor instigators- you know the monkeys that go "OOHH, AHHHH" about every little thing. Yeah those are human dirt cookers that start fights. How ever, I've discovered a new kind of cooking dirt: And The Article that introduces this deliciouso method is the WINNER!...(Drum roll please)My fifth but certainly not least Article : "Dirt Cupcakes"- by Baking bites!(Applause.Scream.Burst into joyous tears) the design and, layout is ridiculously simple-OK I won't be nice- plain boring... So what exactly makes it the winner? Definitely not that! The author uses Slammin',( I guess I'd call it rhetorical because the answer is pretty obvious) questions to start off with like ,"What could be more creepy than a pile of dirt full of bugs and worms?" Uh nothing beats that to me. He's got this awesome tone because his cupcakes are a Halloween  special. so, is this spooky or what?,"These cupcakes start out with a big batch of Devil's food chocolate cupcakes... I sacrificed a few of them to the food processor to press them into dirt crumbs..."  So if you're paying attention that makes it very sort of Witch crafty, mischievous, and just sinister. He has very well developed sentence fluency:"They look good once they’re coated, but when you dress up the serving plate with a little bit of leftover “dirt” and a bunch of gummy candy worms and bugs, you get a batch of deliciously chocolaty cupcakes that are almost too creepy to eat!" You even get a load of imagery in there nice. (sigh I enjoyed it a lot), I get to eat Dirt for Halloween!

 So i have to let it be known these blogs were great and made it very difficult to choose a top one. At first I was going to choose "Brown Butter Pear..." But, then Dirt cupcakes came along, and all the others too, and when the difficulty got to it's extremity; the food just broke out into a fight...I know it seems funny, I'm hysterical HAHA HEHE HOHO! But it's true, you weren't there. Can you challenge this conviction? I thought so i stand convinced! That cooking dirt, (digging it up rather) has and, always will start a fight. But you never got it like this did you, nah ahn, food on food action!

I Rule The Dough!!!

 So, today I "explored" some food blog horizons by; reading five food blogs, and critiquing them in order to pick the best one. Now, I didn't spin around, do any mini miny Moe games or anything of the sort. Based on my inspections of: the design, layout, functionality, quality of writing, appeal of recipes or topics, and other accessories of the following blogs:
 1. "Putting your life at stake With A Meal" Mikael
 2. " One hundred," by Anthony bourdain
 3. "The One Pie Dough To Rule Them All" by Chez Pim
 4."Savory Sesame Cookies", by chocolate & Zucchini
 5."Single crust Plum And Apple Pie" from the Smitten Kitchen.

I chose the best one. SO, I have ruled, and I choose (Drum roll):" The One Pie To Rule The Dough", Yes, I rule: The dough!
                    Now allow me to explain myself: The design is very laid back, but classy, really warm like gourmet chocolate chip cookies (tasty!) The olive green, tan, and white color go well together. The layout is creative/neatly organized, there are catchy titles and sections for everything there. There are very appeasing and felicitous pictures of food that compel you to the blog, or propel you deeper into it. The functionality is fine I mean the website "works". Now to the good stuff; The quality of writing here is, HOT she is motivational,"And do you know what's perfect about it? you can do it too. Yes, you." l have no idea how to make a pie, yet alone the dough. But, after reading this I'm like; man lets go! (I'll still probably fail terribly but at least i was confident in my failure). Chez's tone is refreshing and reliving, when it comes to the past pressures of making a pie-you and mine alike-"... No matter What kind of sordid, tragic past you've had with other pie dough recipes. you can forget it all and start anew with this one." So, if that tone ain't smacking you ALL in yo' face right now then...I don't know what is?
               Moving on, she has awesome appeal to the recipe -flaky, buttery,down to the crumbilicious: pie dough-mmm! I can taste it, "It's the dough that won't be over worked, soaked, or stick, burnt, or bitter, or hard to make." (Really the ingredients are so simple)
               So in the area of the, "quality of writing", I'd like to point out some other accessories that this blog has that are great(in my opinion): figurative language and literary devices Examples: Diction- she uses the word HUBRIS, to describe the "cure" (for lack of a better term) for past pie doe tragedies(the cure being the new buttery, flaky, pie dough). Great imagery that I may have referred to earlier such as " It will be flaky and tender, buttery, delicious, crumbs as you bite into it," I can see my pie now (in my dreams of course). Even, some cool personification " It will be the easiest and most forgiving dough you've ever handled." so yeah, I couldn't say this for the other four blogs (at least not in depth) and, so i chose this one on rules of attraction. read the blogs for yourself you be the judge, but as for me "I RULE THE DOUGH!"

 

soo many choices.sooo much FOOOOODDD!!!!!

so today's day one of my FOOOOD! blog yeah, Weezy had three words for Nivea ,but i got three words for you all: I love food.There are so many foods in the category of food, that it's hard to choose- i mean i don't want to show favor, i said i looove food, so there's no favor involved in that. (alright if you really want to know) my favorite food is, chicken low mein-but don't, please don't don't tell chicken fajita  that ok. It won't be pretty. i'll starve because of it.
so, i'll be back in five to tell you what i'll choose.