Smoke Your Own Meat, Bake Your Own Buns – MSF is Back
MSF is back! This week’s bun-smoking and meat-baking Tag Team – The Broken Record and Humphry Slocombe! (Well, no meat ice cream of Humphry’s yet, though you never know with these Mission baconistas…)
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| Burrata with Rosemary Oil and Yam chips |
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| Farro, Beech Mushroom, Macadamia Nut, Grape, Marjoram, and Verjus Vinaigrette |
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| Brisket Sandwich: Broken Record’s Brisket & homemade Bun w/ Caramelized Onion, Pickled Fennel, Avocado Salsa, side Radish Salad |
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| PB & J: Berkshire Kurobuta Pork Belly and Jicama with Pickled Jalapeno and Cilantro Aioli on our homemade Flatbread |
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| MSF Rice: Smoky Rice fried in Duck Fat with Liberty Duck Confit, Duck Cracklins, Shitake, and Cauliflower |
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| VSF Rice: Smoky Rice fried in olive oil with Shitake, Cauliflower and Tofu Tempura |
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| Dessert: a scoop of Secret Breakfast, or Vietnamese Blue Bottle Coffee, or Balsamic Caramel ice cream |
David Lee Roth + Microsoft = Running with the Devil, Indeed
This is perhaps the funniest thing I have heard since I first got a computer.
I was weeping by the end of it, unable to breath. I don’t what’s funnier, the dissonance or actually listening to the lyrics. (David has the little tirade at 1:25 I must say.)
Does this prove that Microsoft is indeed the devil? Or is Songsmith is the best piece of software they’ve ever made? I’m not quite sure.
But oh dear god I just CAN’T STOP LISTENING TO IT (please help)
UPDATE:
This Microsoft ad for Songsmith is so genuinely horrific, yet I had to share. Like, “Hey, this spoiled milk taste awful, try it!” Oh, the humanity. (Thanks for the emotional scarring, Daring Fireball.)
I stopped watching after the dad stole his devil child’s laptop took it to the coffee shop and started singing to it in front of the barista, and they come skipping over to watch. I just couldn’t take it any more. I felt bad for the actors.
What’s worse — that the actors willingly did this, or that someone at Microsoft actually thought the ad would be a good idea?
The DLR ‘remix’ at the top of the song will seem cleansing in comparison after watching any of this utterly, fascinatingly BAD piece of work. (Yet I how love the top song! Such a confusing range of emotions!)
City Food Specialties; Grill Me Some Pizza
I have a theory that each city has the ability to do one or two high-volume convenience foods really well, where the average option is really quite good — but this specialization consumes so much karmik food preparation energy that the other quick food options are average at best, if not sad. (Note that I’m not talking about restaurants here, in which we have an embarrassing surplus of talent, but rather non-chain, walk-in, walk-out.)
| City | Food Done Well | Food That Suffers | ||
| San Francisco | burritos | pizza | ||
| New York | pizza, chinese | mexican | ||
| Vancouver | sushi | pizza, mexican | ||
| Singapore | street-vendor noodles | ? | ||
| London | kababs, fish and chips | pizza |
Obviously some cultural and geographic issues at work — I don’t expect Singapore to be good at mexican food. But god help you find a decent burrito in Vancouver (or mexican in general), and pizza is pretty useless there. But you can’t shake a stick and not hit good sushi — Vancouver has sushi density like the Mission has burritos, and the good sushi is really, really good.
Anyway, as prior discussions on Mission Mission attest, I’m a thin crust guy (aka elitist pizza snob) and I’m not thrilled with the quality of pizza in the city (Delfina Pizza excepted), so I usually make my own.
Fun as it is to take pictures of other people’s food, here’s my specialty, grilled pizza:
Obligatory panorama (click to zoom):
Ready to be sliced:
oddly shaped slices taste better:
if Hockney made pizza…
It’s pretty straight-forward:
- pre-heat your grill, medium-high
- prep toppings
- roll dough very thin (I use whole foods, two pizzas to a bag of dough), maybe a foot in diameter
- brush olive oil on one side
- flip oily side on grill (this part is hard, takes practice, you will curse me – you may want a beer first)
- brush olive oil on the new top side
- may want to rotate (x-axis, yaw) after a couple of minutes to avoid hotspots if your bbq is wonky — peek underneath to see how it’s doing
- drink more beer
- wait for dough to start bubbling — should only have a few if any char marks underneath, decently crispy, but not too crispy
- flip, add ingredients, non-solids first (I like tomato + quatro fromagio, or pesto + asiago, or the above, tomato + mozz + dollops of pesto flung from a spoon at moderate distance)
- may want to lower heat a little so toppings don’t dry out
- peek underneath, rotate if necessary, wait for nice grill marks
- slice on random, radiating angles
- eat quickly as it will not retain heat for long
- make another one (don’t forget beer)
Concrete Evidence The M1ss1on Is #1
These are all up and down M1ss1on in La Lengua:
I would love to see a 3 subbing for an E. “C3SAR CHAV3Z.”
Or better yet use the whole “1337” substitution scheme: V473NC14 5TR33T!
across the street from Dolores Park
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Phat Philly, Thumbs Up
Sign of good food = I forget to take a picture of the food. That’s was a damn fine sandwich, and I do love waffle fries.
The reason they ship the bread in is now clear to me — it obviously holds special powers in order to maintain structural integrity while under the onslaught of the powerful cheesesteak juices.
Yeht teg rieht eci dloc reeb txen keew.
Cesar Chaves, Jesús Ahorra
Update: So much for the Cesar Chavez theory. (Maybe there’s some greedy intersection that says “SANCHEZZZ”.)
DPT definitely needs to buy more letters. Though they so totally could have used two Vs.
Concrete Marks The Mission
Contractor #1: “Crap, we’re out of N’s.”
Contractor #2: “Use half a W.”
Contractor #1: “I *already* used the W for the M.”
Contractor #2: “Crap. Do we have any Z’s we can rotate?”
Contractor #1: “No — they’re with the crew on Cesar Chavez.”
Contractor #2: “Crap crap CRAP. Hey, I know! We just finished Valencia — use that V, and then use another upside-down V!”
Contractor #1: “Dude, you are a genius.”
(10 minutes later…) Contractor 2: “Dude, are you dyslexic?”
Contractor #1: “Looks kind of cool, actually — italexic!”
Meanwhile, further down Mission…
Valencia Cyclorama
Here’s to Valencia Cyclery, fixing a flat on a baby stroller in 10 minutes. Thanks, guys.
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Burrito Justice 
