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The Dude of Food reviews Las Rocas Garnacha

If you are in LA, on your way to a party and are looking for a good internationally grown red wine, choose Bodega Elena before you choose this wine. The reason people make wine is for enjoyment and taste. This Las Rochas Garnacha sports an underwhelming flavor and watered down taste at best. The red flavors try to creep through but don’t cut it. There are better choices in the $12. range.

The Dude of Food says – PASS

The Dude of Food made yummy stuffed grapes.

The Dude of Food made these stuffed grapes and it was easy. Just crush raisins, dates, dried apricot, prunes, honey, Nutella, peanut butter, a little good jam and some oats all together into a paste and you’ll get a rough wet version of a Cliff bar. Then take some large washed grapes and slice them in half. Smash a small spoonful of the Cliff bar type mixture on top of the grape halves and enjoy a tasty treat. It’s yummy.

The Dude of Food presents pasta Alfredo

So when I craved pasta with Alfredo sauce I just took a half pound of bacon, trimmed the fat and pan fried it. After draining the pan I added some onions and finely chopped garlic. Thawed frozen peas were added and then fresh broccoli . Later, cheating, I added a jar of Alfredo sauce and a small container of another brand of Alfredo sauce with some milk. I added a dash of salt, some black pepper. You can add basil or mint or whatever flavor you like and bring to a slow simmer.

Add Penne pasta and enjoy.

Top with cheese as preferred.

The Dude of Food likes Barcelona’s Damm Estrella beer

Barcelona is a fun place.
Good food, sangria, the sea, fun people and beer!
The folks at Damm Estrella beer are doing things right.
The Dude of Food likes the Adria’s recipes on the 6 pack holders.
Thank you.

http://www.estrelladamm.com/en/

Check out chef Adria at the site below.

http://gourmetfood.about.com/od/chefbiographi2/p/ferranadriabio.htm

Spaghetti squash pasta and Miss Zurich!

From what the Dude of Food understands, you can purchase a device that you stick vegetables in and when you turn the handle it magically turns the veggies into spaghetti! This is a kitchen item that I need to add to my kitchen toolbox.

Right now the Dude of Food is sitting down with a coffee at home, pretending to be served by Miss Zurich in my amber room that overlooks the river. I ask her to dip her finger in my coffee to sweeten it just right. I sip my delicious cup of brew while relaxing in bed watching the ducks on the river. I’m imagining a zucchini pasta with assorted onions and mushrooms smothered in a cheesy white wine glaze served with a side of warmed buttery green beans and 3 poached eggs on sourdough toast and an avocado half is about to arrive. I see Miss Paris has joined in to help and is pushing a cart with food my way. 2 of Germany’s Next Top Models have arrived also. 1 is setting a up tray so I can eat in bed and the other is setting up a massage table so I can relax later. A breakfast for champions, served in bed by beautiful women, is a great way for the Dude of Food to greet the new day.

See what happens to you if you purchase one of these Paderno Spiralizer from Williams-Sonoma.

Bon Appetite.

The Dude of Food gets blessed. No joke, 2 yolks.

Is it the year of the chicken or what?

Don’t know what they are feeding these chickens but my luck seems to be changing in 2015. The first egg I cracked revealed 2 yolks inside! It happened to me at a sushi bar with a double yolked quails egg too!

The Dude of Food brings you a mac n cheese morning treat.

Here’s a breakfast designed to warm the hearts of mac n cheese lovers.

Last nights mac n cheese supremely blended with scrambled morning eggs, yum!

The Dude of Food introduces “Michelada Mondays”

If everyone in town can decide to make Tuesday for tacos then the Dude of Food and a few friends are claiming Monday for Micheladas. Get some. A michelada for breakfast is way better than donuts.

The Dude of Food’s cool cookbook review

The Dude of Food knows wine and cooking enthusiasts will immediately realize that they have uncorked something truly magical with Karen MacNeil’s food book “Wine, Food & Friends”. This book sizzles with the culinary expertise of cooking light with the wine under the knowing connoisseurship of Karen MacNeil herself. Karen, an award-winning author, lecturer and television personality, knows food and wine. Pair her wine knowledge with more than 150 cooking light recipes and you have all the notes you need to reach new levels of cooking glory. Find a copy and give it a chance to make your chef skills shine.

“I like the simplicity and knowledge this food book retains” says the Dude of Food.

The Dude of Food likes IN-N-OUT Burgers

The Dude of Food is a big fan of In-n-Out burger. Ever wonder why they are so good? Is the quality of the meat? Is it the consistency in quality? Is the care they take in customer service? Is it the fresh iced tea and clean bathrooms?

Whatever it is, these employees learn all about it at the IN-N-OUT University in Baldwin Park.

Around the corner is a replica of one of the originals, seen below. Instead of millions served they advertise ‘NO DELAY’. My how times have changed.

As of Dec 18, 2024 there were 415 In-n-Out locations in the US.

Keep up the respectable work In-n-Out crew.