Cape Cod Potato Chips

      When I was at Cape Cod  I went to The Cape Cod Potato Chip factory.  There we had a tour of the factory. It was interesting. I saw little because there is a big square window and we could only see one side. But even though we saw so little it was so interesting.  The factory smelled like oil.

      Did you know the factory has gone from making 200 bags a day to 350,000 bags a day?  Did you also know that it takes 4 pounds of POTATOES to make 1 pound of  potatoes CHIPS?  At the gift shop they were giving out free potato chips,there was original and reduced fat.  We bought 5 flavors: original, sea salt & cracked pepper,sour cream & green onion,sweet mesquite barbecue,and last we had waffle cut chips sea salt.  

     At my grandma and papa's house we tasted the flavors.  We all gave the flavors points 1-10.  Sweet mesquite barbecue  came in last with 36 and a half points, it tasted like a barbecue chips.  Sea salt & cracked pepper came in 4th with 38 points, very spicy after taste.  My favorite was sour cream & green onions and that came in 3rd with 39 points.  It was great.  Original came in 2nd with 51 points.  I thought it was so so. And in first... drum roll please... waffle cut chips sea salt with a 53 points!!

Lefteris

Today I went to a restaurant called Lefteris in a new big shopping center in Yonkers.  They serve the food from the place that makes my favorite myths... Greek.  There we got some yummy food, and it's right by the new Legoland Discovery Center!  We sat out side.  The table cloth was blue and white like the Greek flag.  We got grilled octopus.  It tasted like the raw tuna that I get at the Japanese restaurant.  I didn't like it.  I like squid better but my sister really liked it.  We also got saganaki cheese on fire (literally :0 ).  It tasted rubbery, it was so-so.   The third thing food is Spinach pie or in Greek spanikopita, it was good.  On to the meat:  biftek, it tasted like a veggie burger paddy.  It was beef.  Gyro is made of lamb+beef.  It looked like brown strips of meat.  The last of the meat  is souvlaki, which was lamb.  It is tough like steak.  I love it. I have to sink my teeth in the piece of lamb and try to use my teeth to break a smaller piece.  There was this lasagna thing called vegetarian moussaka, like a potato zucchini lasagna.  It was fine it was very potato-y.  The last food  was some pita.  It was chewy hot and good.  We used the pita to scoop up the food, like the way you use the pancake when eating Ethiopian food.

How gyro meat is made.


            

OREGANO

  

     Today I went to OREGANO.  It is a Franco/Iberian Bistro, which serves French and Spanish/ Portugal food.  It is at 3522 Johnson Ave in Riverdale.

     At this restaurant there was 1 flat screen tv and it also has old fashion, funky looking lights.  Another thing was 2 written on mirrors, they had some of the types of food written on them.  There was also what my mom calls subway tiles. There were two paintings, one painting has a beach on it, the second one looks like it is an ad for wine. There is a cool thing for parties (at least my mom said)in the middle of the restaurant- there is a big plant-filled space with tables and chairs, and it even has a glass roof.

     I got Canard aux deux Facons, which is (yummy) Duck Leg Confit and Duck Breast with herbed liquor reduction.  I loved the duck, I loved it so much that it gave me a new motto: "Get duck when ever you can."  I also loved the sauce near the duck. I liked the lasagna shaped sweet potato side dish, which was called sweet potato gratin.  Another side dish is roasted fennel, that I didn't like. I tasted it when it was in the sauce and the fennel had one flavor and the sauce had another flavor and they didn't mix well, like water and oil.  I also got Pate, which is like a liver moose.  I did not like the texture.  I also got some snails with butter, that I liked.
It was nice and chewy.




     For dessert I had a piece of tres leche cake.  It was so good I wanted more.  I was the first one to grab the cherry.

     I really like this restaurant and I think you would go there and try the duck.

Dinosaur BBQ

     On Friday I went to a place called Dinosaur BBQ.  It smells like BBQ sauce and woodsmoke.  It is a big restaurant.  There is even big posters of old movies.  They have a visible kitchen.

     For a appetizer I had some awesome tasting wings.  The wings were a little spicy.  The flavor was called Mango Tango.  Another appetizer is a fried green tomatoes.  They were yummy.  They were green and they were ripe(ya I said it they were RIPE.)  They were also deep fried so it has a perfect name.

     For dinner I had some really good ribs.  They were not too spicy.  What I liked about them was the sauce that was on them.  I also had mac+cheese.  I saw little pieces of pepper and it had a nice spicy kick with a good aftertaste to it.
       Sadly I didn't have any dessert to tell you about.

P.S
     Sorry but I am now a 9 year old. 

Cafe al Mercato

 

 Today me and my family went to Cafe Mercado.  It is on Arthur Ave. in the Bronx.  There I got penne vodka (don't worry the vodka part that makes you drunk got boiled away) pizza.  The pizza was a piece of pizza with ziti on top (but it's not ziti, it's penne.)  I loved the pizza.

My mom and dad they split a sandwich on focaccia bread with fried eggplant and broccoli rabe.  They also had pasta fagioli.  Which is a soup.  I tried both.  The sandwich was okay, the only funky taste was the broccoli rabe.  The soup was delish.   I really liked the beans.  

     

For dessert I had chocolate gelato.  My sister had chocolate and hazelnut.  Hazelnut tasted marshmallow-y.

Cheese Platter

     Yesterday me and my mom went to a cheese store.  There me and my mom bought 8 cheeses to make a cheese platter for Easter.  Today I am trying cheeses and writing a blog post about them (the cheese). 
     Our first cheese is Imported New Zealand cheddar.  It doesn't have a strong taste.  My dad tasted salt.  Surprisingly the cheddar is whitish-yellow color instead of being orange.
     our next cheese is White Stilton With Mango and Ginger.  It smells weird.  I don't like it because, it has mango and ginger.
     The next cheese is Black River Gorgonzola.  It smells like cream cheese.  It has a nice spicy kick to it.  It is the softest of all the 7 cheese.  It is kind of a stinky cheese.
     Our fourth to last is Manchego from Spain.  It smells like Swiss cheese.  It's the whitest of all the cheeses.  It tastes like nothing.  It has a funny after taste.
      Our next cheese is Asiago.  It has a crunchy after taste.  It also tasted salty.
     Our second to last cheese is smoked sharp cheddar.  It tasted warm.  It is not salty.
     Our last cheese is Soinon Bucheron Goat Cheese.  It has a weird after taste.  It also tasted like cream cheese.

Indian Food Feast

     I went to my grandparents' house to have some Indian food and see pictures of the trip that my papa and Uncle Tommy had in India.  My grandma made some Indian food.  

                                      Bombay mixture     
     For a snack grandma served Bombay mixture.  It's crunchy and yummy.  

Dinner

     Next it is dinner.  I had Samosas which is a potato, peas, and a spice called Tumeric.  I think it's hot.  

                                 
     Chicken Burra has lots of butter.  It was delish.  It is brownish red.  Lamb passanda tastes great and there is chunks of lamb.  Chicken tikka massala tastes good.  But is a little too buttery. 

                                         naan bread 
    Naan is like a flat bread.  It is impossible to make at home.  Unless you have a tandor oven that can go up to like a 1,000 degrees F.  

     Rice pulaob has peas, onions, Basmati rice , and sticks of cinnamon and last but not the least we have Dhal which is made with red lentills called Masoor.  

     I had to drink is Mango lassi which is like a mango smoothy.

                                          

                                          My plate