Its Like Warrrmmmm Apple Pieee Part Deux

    As previously stated, 2 of my favorite meals I've eaten here have come from Apple Pie bakery, and here they are.

duck x four: foie gras mousse, duck confit, crispy duck skin, red onion marmalade, brie cheese on focaccia brushed with duck fat, served with a lima bean side salad with frisee lettuce, red onions, celery & sherry vinaigrette

Don't you just want to live in there?

    Where to start with this one? Everything about this sandwich is brilliant; from the fresh baked focaccia to the crispy duck skin for a nice textural crunch...and tenderly brushing the bottom of the bread with duck fat, WHOO DOES THAT?!?! The biggest surprise, however, was not the sandwich at all. It was the lima bean side salad with Sherry Vinaigrette. It had the taste of a potato salad, but much lighter w/o mayo. Complemented everything so nicely.



crisp house-cured pork belly Stone Milled Carolina grits with cheddar cheese, bacon braised bok choy, fried egg & Sriracha honey sauce

I'd kick a blind lady in the shin for this...good thing I don't have to and can get it any day of the week

    If your what I like to call a "TV dinner style eater" then you are not allowed to eat this meal. Ever. TV dinner style eaters are those who must ensure that each ingredient on their plate remain separate from each other like those compartmentalized TV dinner trays. You know what I mean, protein in one corner, carrots and green veggies in another, potatoes in another. There is a place for it, and its not here. This dish is meant to be mixed up! Poke that runny yolk and let it run rampant like a California wildfire baby!! It may look more like one of those KFC vomit bowls once mixed, but I'm telling you that your doing yourself an injustice if you don't follow the "pork belly shakeup" protocol.

Incest + the roller coaster/chewing tobacco scene from "Sandlot" VS Cindy Crawford in a red dress...that's what we're dealing with here people.


I forgot to mention that these two meals also happened to be consumed on the same day, lunch & dinner. This is how my stomach felt afterward:

Have a goodnight everyone.

Its Like Warrrmmmm Apple Pieee

White bean & Kale soup; strawberry/basil smoothie

Roommate, sorry dude your not my first roommate named Ethan

    I'm just going to come right out and say it...Apple Pie Bakery kills it on a consistent basis. For those of you who don't go here, Apple Pie is a bakery here on campus that's staffed predominantly by baking and pastry students (and a few culinary it looks like), and is open to the public. The place is usually always packed, which makes it inconvenient when you want a grab-n-go coffee before classes on the 4th floor. Since this school has a strict lateness policy you better not be late. I've sprinted up these set of stairs, which are andre the giant sized in business clothes to make it to food safety on time. You ever run up a flight of stairs with a bookbag on?? It's crazy how bat-shit insane it makes you look. With that being said, a friend of mine, and I'm not purposely saying "a friend of mine" instead of their name I just genuinely forgot who told me, but I was told Apple Pie rakes in a cool 4 million a year, easy. This comes at no surprise because as I previously stated, Apple Pie killllls it! Trying to get a table on a graduation day or move-in day (which both occur every 3 weeks) is like trying to get a table at "Dorsia". If you get that reference your my hero....
    I go to Apple Pie all the time to grab a quickie...as in coffee. Although there are some babes behind the register (Baking and Pastry is like cheerleading--there are very few straight guys who can pull it off, and they clean up). They also offer a savory menu that's off da chain. Two of my favorite eats at CIA so far come from Apple Pie. They're so ridiculously good I'll have to set aside a separate post for those 2 meals.

I Ain't Hear No Bell (Puts Up Dukes)

    You want more? I've been sitting in my computer chair that's not even a comfy executive rollie chair, but standard issue wooden rocking/desk chair (I always think I am going to fall when I lean) for the past 3 hours bringing new material to you Jabronies. Not to mention I'm still in the same clothes I hiked in earlier today (lifts harm, smells armpit, faints).
    I'm just going to cut to the chase and show a bunch of pictures of food I get to eat 'erryday and other miscellaneous things because I'm too tired to blow your minds with philosophical comparisons of mountains and kitchens...

Those baked New Zealand mussels I was talking about

New Zealand lamb

Squid Ink Risotto...one of the best things I have eaten here

Stuff I Ate Today

Knee deep in some chicken nahkti with rice for lunch. The pita looking thing in the background is naan--an Indian style bread and booyyy is it tasty; especially when its soaking up some of that orange cream sauce..




After lunch I saw these guys selling BBQ eats...wish I saw this BEFORE lunch
Side note: there was a guy walking around with a sign promoting said BBQ here is the ensuing discussion:
GUY: "Hey want to buy a hot dog for a buck?"
ME: "nah, I already ate lunch thanks though"
ME: "I was actually wondering if I could just take a picture of you with this giant sign for my blog?"
GUY: "You can if you buy a hot dog for a buck"
ME: "we already went over this..."
(We both walk away empty-handed)

My dinner: California club on wheat. It had turkey, crispy bacon, lettuce, alfalfa sprouts, tomato, avocado spread, and red pepper aioli w/ kettle cooked chips on the side. I usually am a chips on the sandwich kinda guy for crunch, but there was too much going on with this sandwich already...

This club, akin to most other exclusive clubs has a list...sorry tomatoes, you weren't on the list. Turkey and everyone else, here's backstage passes to my mouth

Last Post Till Monday

      Hola people! I am currently posted up in the south campus law library studying for an exam tomorrow (its basic stuff don't worry about it). Tomorrow is a full day so I most likely wont post anything until Monday or so b/c I'll be road tripping to DC early Friday morning and wont be back till late Sunday night. I am going to visit my friend Jess (she owes me after this 7 hr drive) an while I am out there I will make sure to take lots of photos of all the DC eats I encounter. On a side note, I tried to see if going to Mike Isabella's (hes from Top Chef, if your into that sorta thing) Greek restaurant, "Zaytinya"was a possibility, but I just found out that he now leaving to open up his own establishment--a tapas bar in the DC area this Thursday. I was ecstatic to try it out but for $85/person I'll find something cheaper in the city...

      Lastly, since this post wouldn't mean much without a photo, check out this mega-sub I had on campus today. It's called the stinger: chicken fingers & chopped steak w/ pepper jack cheese, lettuce, spinach, green peppers and chipotle mayo. My roommate Smitty and I both ate one and have been walking around sluggishly ever since...or at least I have.

They never can seem to get it all in there, but hey, their subs are better than Subway..shut-up Jared

Its All Happening!

      Whats up world? I finally finished my culinary application for the CIA (my essay is da bomb) and submitted it via their website!! These next few weeks are going to be hell until I get a letter back from them. To be safe I'll probably send in a few more culinary applications (wish they weren't all $50!) in the next few days so I'm going to be super busy this coming week. Although, I am heading to the grocery store in a few minutes to get a few things for my pesto mayonnaise project so look for that to be posted either tonight or tomorrow evening with the Sam Adams Blackberry Witbier dish.
      On a minor side note: I tried Tofu for the first time today...interesting texture. My initial thoughts were that it tasted like really soft pasta, you know if you cook it too long? Well anyway, I had never had it before an thought I'd try it when my buddy Smitty an I were eating Chinese on campus. I ordered it with Lo Mein noodles, and chicken in garlic sauce (YUM). The tofu was actually quite delicious, especially in their Mapo sauce (dont know what that is, but it was superb).

      By the way if you were wondering what tofu actually is: its a bean curd made from coagulated soy milk pressurized into blocks or cubes. Sounds nasty but hey so are hot dogs and you have eaten at least ONE ball park frank in you life. Nonetheless it was good so EAT IT! (love how eat it applies in two different ways there) Lastly, if you are looking to try tofu DO NOT EAT IT PLAIN b/c you will hate it. It absorbs the flavor of whatever it is in thus it is delicious in delicious sauces and things of that nature. Peace. 

I'm An Idiot Part Deux

Okay so I said the pic of my Indian lunch got deleted before I could email it to my computer, well I guess it didn't. Today I went to Bollywood Bistro for lunch and ordered chicken takhni (had orange curry cream sauce), zucchini w/ potatoes, and rice on the side. It was a pretty ambitious portion size and didn't even come close to finishing it, but the chicken takhni was divine. Side note: I was reluctant to go to Bollywood Bistro b/c a girl I dated sophomore year used to take me there and when that went sour I thought the food would too. Anyway, here's the photo, check it out:

Came w/ Indian pita called naan.

On Campus Eats

So I go to the University @ Buffalo and our campus has a wide array of eateries from the conventional Subway and BK to the more unconventional Rachel's Mediterranean and Bollywood Bistro. Today for lunch I went to Johnny C's NY which serves up both breakfast and various NYC deli style lunch items including a whole list of deli sandwiches to choose from. I ordered the "Park Avenue" on a Italian sub roll. This behemoth is loaded with thick slices of turkey, smoked Bacon, provolone cheese, lettuce, and tomato. What really got me though, was the pesto-mayo (in this case I did not mind the liberal lathering of a condiment)! I mean if I could fill a bathtub with this pesto-mayo and bathe in it I would...please don't picture that for your sake and mine. Anyways it got me thinking of ways to use a pesto-mayo into something of my own; so in the near future expect me to post something incorporating pesto-mayo. A small note: when I ate this sandwich I had a fork handy b/c all the things that fell out while eating made a nice little side salad.

Look at the Pesto mayo and all it's glory

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