recipe

breakfast for dinner

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lentil sausage pigs in sourdough buttermilk vanilla blankets... with brown sugar strawbee {juices}
my quest for turning all meat things into lentil/almond/egg things continues. 
when i was a wee one, i'd eat those pig in a blanket things that came on a stick and that looked like corn dogs. and that you could nevvver quite microwave right, for either the middle was still frozen or the outside was overcooked. but they were still really good and fun and you could eat them on the school bus. 
...that on-a-stick thing was what i was going for, but the lentil sausage had the consistency of what happens when you eat too many sunchokes in a day. so i just made poo-shaped lentil sausage logs, and they were really good.
{recipe}
lentil breakfast sausage: {mix together} ground cooked lentils + almond flour + white flour + eggs + salt + pepper + allspice + nutmeg + sage + thyme + brown sugar + cayenne. form poo shapes, cook in olive oil. 


-yeh!

ramen cupcakes...

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happened by mistake,
after the ramen gnocchi recipe in lucky peach [issue 1]
ruined my blender.
*shakes fist in the direction of the east village*
the ramen gnocchi recipe involves cooking the noodles in milk,
and then blendering them all up with egg yolks to form a pasty
substance that can be piped into gnocchi shapes.
{then the gnocchi shapes are boiled and sauteed in butter 
and tossed with herbies}
one batch came out, and of course it was good, 
it was ramen in butter:
but so when my pretty green blender threw in the towel
{mid-blend of batch number two}
in to the cupcake tins they went, along with the remaining herbs.
the result was quiche-like,
something like a quiche that yr gramma would serve at a ladies' luncheon. 
but with a hint of what your stoned roommate is eating.
um.
i don't really know if i would recommend trying this at home.
it's really... not worth it. except for if you want amusing reactions from the people in the twitters when you tweet: ramen cupcakes.

-yeh? 

in memoriam: m. wells

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and also: reason for why i am only 99% vegetarian
last week i said hello and goodbye to my new favorite:
m. wells
{which closes today}
forever i will remember the breakfast sandwich and the spaghetti sandwich as two of the tastiest and doughiest sandwiches i ever had. ohh how i fancied their bread! english muffins, soft squishy hamburger buns, squishy squishiness everywhere. j'adore. have you ever had a spaghetti sandwich?? neither had i. essentially, it eliminates the element of feeling awkward when you use your garlic bread as a utensil for spaghetti {that is a common thing, right?}.  
oh and the breakfast sandwich! it is like a giant, puffier, more interesting sausage mcmuffin. and i say that in the best possible way because my last breakfast on earth would include a sausage mcmuffin.
other dishes included: the hamburger. a juicy, yummy one. the tortilla. with shrimpies. hmmm. the egg souffle. which was random. am-i-in-japan random. 
i was sad to see that the classic quebecois dishes they were serving when they first opened weren't on the menu. but that's ok. i guess it had kind of morphed into a superdiner where all sorts of classic diner things and international things were magnified and yummy-/homemade-ified. it was so great and i am so sad that it is gone now.
oh! and this is what it looks like to eat with three extremely awesome food bloggers. eating with brian, blondie, and donny was so silly because originally i was planning on finger painting pictures of the food when i got home, but then as each dish came out and no one could touch it until everyone had positioned and photographed it, i felt weird not taking pictures. 
so i did, and there they are.
i would say you should go to m. wells now... but sadly the best you'll be able to do is just think hard enough about the best breakfast sandwich that your imagination can come up with. and maybe, possibly, it will appear. 
frank the bunny-style.  
r.i.p. m. wells!


-yeh :-(