Out of blog out of sight

I will be taking a brief hiatus of blogging as I will be out of New York City for the next 12 or so days. Actually, I will be out of NY state. In fact, I will be out of the US. In reality I will be out of the northern hemisphere. Essentially, I will be in Ecuador. Hopefully taking a million pictures for all of you, my blog readers, of unique foods. And another million pictures for my other blog He That Cooks.

So, I will miss you all. Take care and see you soon. Please don’t forget about me!!

-Goose

P.S. please leave me lots of comments!

Browned Ox Trails

Browned ox tails here for the ox tail soup I made.

3 layer pizza

This is my favorite way to have pizza at work. Stack 3 different ones on top of each other. Here I have margarita, ricotta, and pepperoni slices. Gotta love New York pizza!

My first competitive eating competition

The food: 30 inch hot dog
The goal: Eat it as fast s possible

I came in 4th place of 10 people. Only the top 4 of us finished the whole hot dog. The rest couldn’t finish theirs. Being that this was my first contest, I am pretty content with amount and speed I did. The hot dog had a lot of girth to it, and the custom bun was pretty thick. It took me about 12 minutes to down the hotdog, followed by a tall pint of cold beer. See all pics from the competition here.

Cameroon Fannings

Tea and biscuits! Ehh? The tea I am having here is Cameroon Fannings, grown at 3,300 feet in an African Volcano Cameroon. A very strong black tea with a distinct aroma.

Giant breadstick

This must the largest breadstick I have ever seen or eaten. It almost poked the camera woman’s eye out.

Sorry, folks… with the increased popularity of my site, looks like some hackers broke in and moved the below raccoon post from my other blog to here (seen below). But for the sake of remembrance, I will leave it here.

Central park species

Found this raccoon in central park. It is one of 10 mammals that can be found daily in central park (non dailies would include those once in a while exotics such a coyotes, crocodiles, turkeys (last two not mammals, you should know that!)).
There’s also the following list of species that can be found… 51 bird, 7 reptiles/amphibians, 11 fish, 44 fungi, 392 plants, 10 spiders, 9 dragon flies, 2 frogs, and 78 moths. This as per a 2003 study. There is one about to be done this summer. So it will be interesting to see the new results.

Okra in donabe

Cooking in my donabe here. Donabes are Japanese pots made out of special clay for use over an open flame. There precautions must be use when cooking with a donabe… First, the outside of the donabe should be completely dry before use, as moisture within the clay will expand in the heat and may chip or crack the pot. Secondly, the pot should be heated gradually to reduce the possibility of cracks due to heat stress. Finally, the pot should never be left over the flame while empty.
In the pot I have rice, okra, tomatoes, soy sauce, benito flakes, and seaweed. The pic your seeing is just as I was bringing it to a boil. Afterwards I let it simmer for a while, and once the rice was cooked I added some fish to cook on top with a couple eggs.

Oxtail Soup

Woohoo, another Iron Stomach special!! Oxtail soup. And do to popular request I will not be naming the animal as Oscar the Oxen

This stuff was great. It’s Korean (or at least is has Korean writing on it (plus I bought it in/on Korea Way (Korea Way is Koreatown of New York (Koreatown is a term to describe the Korea ethnic enclave within a city or metropolitan area(this is the fifth time I am referencing parenthetical material, proud of me?)))))
Ok, so this Ox Tail soup was very tasty. It actually had the bones with meat on them in the can. I added some scallions and salt (it didn’t have any), and ate with some short grain rice. The meat was very tender and flavorful, and so was the connective tissue and what not found elsewhere on the bones.