I'm bringing food back....

Hiatus complete. Some fun things I stumbled across while I was gone.

This dude is my hero. Reminds me of my obsession with the perfect barbeque sauce, except times 4823908. When I own my oven, I'll start working on pizzas like this. Or maybe I'll just install my own coal-fired brick oven. We'll see.

This is depressing, but not surprising. Honestly, no other restaurant industry gets away with that degree of food porn exaggeration.

This will make you feel better, though. Really puts Ace of Cakes to shame.

All of those courtesy of one of my new foodblog reads, Chef Joanna. She's new up on the blogroll in addition to the irregularly updated Chocolate and Zucchini and What I Cooked Last Night.

Coming soon is a rundown of last night's Lil' Dinner Party. On the menu: Lobster Bisque (and you know it wouldn't be me if I didn't bring back some living lobsters from the waterfront), spinach and artichoke dip with baked pita chips (the same one from the housewarming, except this time I actually got to try it), macaroni and cheese (Mom gets all the credit here, so the Burgess family needs to stop hating. I just add my own little secret ingredient.), and cedar plank tilapia. Too bad my digital camera ran out of batteries. Not to worry, Neighbor Brad saved the day, so once he emails them to me, I'll put together a post on the night.

Oh, and get prepared for Iron Chef: 1325 Pierce, which is next weekend. Turns out Neighbor Jason is actually a pretty serious dude in the kitchen as well, so the inevitable competition has been scheduled. Although I think Jason is thinking this is a more friendly competition than I've got in mind. What? Me? Competitive? Noooooo.

The secret ingredient, since I'm not ACTUALLY a professional chef, has been chosen: Shrimp.

Allez cuisine!!!