Had it with the Food Channel...

[RICHARD]

http://www.slashfood.com/2010/02/26/...-food-festi%2F

Notice that Guy Fieri has bodyguards now.

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Who invented "Umami"?

It's been promoted as the 'fifth' taste and I was wondering when people would to jump on it as a 'food fad'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami

I was watching a news/lifestyle report on the local TV station and a woman was doing a report on a hamburger joint that opened with the name "Umami".

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/around-...-70574947.html

Here in El Lay you can find almost anything to eat...If it's on the Food Channel, we have already seen it here.....I find umami to be a gimmick, not a real kind of food, but more like a concept towards food and it's prep.

The word, because of it Japanese roots, kinda grinds to a halt when I hear abouts chefs tweaking it and using it to sell hamburgers.

The burger pictured in the link was the star of the news clip. I tried to find the clip on the news web site, but could not.....

The reporter, who was an Asian woman, went to Umami to taste the burger!

The chef showed her what is in it - he did not cook it in front of her, rather it was made, taken apart and reassembled at the table- You could see where the roasted tomato was smeared on the cheese part of the burger.

It's a six ounce meat patty, a 'slice' of cheese that was grated and put onto a tray and melted, then cut into a square. Roasted tomato slices, a whole mushroom and the top of the bun finish it out.

She starts to bite into it and describes it, "I can taste the meat, the mushroom, but I don't taste the umami!" The cook tells her, "The umami is in there!"

I started to laugh.....

Is it a soy sauce or a enhancement of the food by using the sauce? And would sending an ethnic reporter make her better suited to tell us what this umami is?

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Tweeting tacos trucks?


I'll save the Korean BBQ taco truck for my next post!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Ole GF has bodyguards? I wonder if somebody is after him??

Umami is the most complicated thing I have ever tried to understand. Mainly because there is nothing I can use to describe it in terms I can understand. [That even sounds confusing]

Richard, are you watching the little Mexican girl that's on on Saturday morning? She sounds like Mickey Mouse. Cute as a button. She looks like a little kid but seems to have some cooking skills.

[RICHARD]

Umami is the most complicated thing I have ever tried to understand.

Richard, are you watching the little Mexican girl that's on on Saturday morning? She sounds like Mickey Mouse. Cute as a button. She looks like a little kid but seems to have some cooking skills.

I have been taking a break from the usual TVFN stuff, it seems like they take a theme and schedule it across all the programming.

I noticed that pot pies were 'hot' last week? After I saw Tyler F gush over his ultimate recipe, I felt dirty and lost the taste for any kind of pies....

I try to put alarms/warnings for the programs on my cable channel, then I have the TV off during that time.

I did catch the premiere of the LMG when she first came out.

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Tweeting taco trucks?

This is almost two different topics.

Taco trucks...there are the Mexican version of a roach coach. We have had a problem with trucks that are not licensed to serve food, stay in one area and the neighborhood complains about them being there for various reasons.
Too many people parking on the street, littering, loitering and stuff like that.

Recently the owner of a empty car lot had the idea of inviting the trucks to go there and serve food. I guess he was charging rent to them-THAT idea ran afoul of the city laws and ended rather quickly. So, some of the more popular trucks will post their location on the internet.


In the same clip there was a truck that served Korean BBQ on tortillas.
The sauces in KBBQ are rather sweet and have wonderful spicyness to them.

I think I know what they would taste like....