My beloved Small Bar: we often refer to them as “the living room”. I love them, but we are there very often, and the menu can get kind of old. Fortunately the specials menu changes up a lot, and is usually pretty interesting and creative. Tonight, of the four of us dining, three of us got the special “Borracho Burger”. We were sitting at the bar, and I could watch the cook making it. While the burger was on the grill, and the cheese was melting on top, he took a bottle of tequila and drizzled generous amounts over the patties, coaxing some pretty big flames up from underneath. It was delicious! Guacamole, melted chihuahua cheese, an enormous pile of pico de gallo, a slice of lime – it was just tart enough, just spicy enough, just savory enough. An excellent burger!
Sorry for the Simpsons reference. There are some words I can’t see without a Simpsons quote popping into the brainspace.
Hey, how are we liking the new format? Does the food diary part get lost, or is it okay? Should I wait and post the whole week of food in one entry? Be honest, I can take it. :)
Am I supposed to see the food diary or is that the question? I think you could do a weekly on the food, but I like it alongside more, especially when your comic features a part of the diary in detail. And now I want burgers for breakfast.
AH, no, they’re their own entries now: http://www.sauceome.com/?p=980
But maybe that’s the answer I’m looking for – it’s not really working, is it? Hmmm. I am reluctant to give up the additional space that I get when I don’t do the diary alongside, and I’m not sure what I’d do with the extra day… let me try a different thing this week, and we’ll see how that works first. :)
I like the alongside, too!
I always felt like the food diary was for you, and the rest of the comic was for us, so separating them seems OK. And yet, and yet: the food diary is one thing that differentiates this comic from other diary comics; you’re giving up some uniqueness. Also, I gotta admit, particularly in your more ruminative comics, sometimes I think “well what’s she eating?” and then go check in the food column. But then I am kind of food obsessed.
I like the new format, but I like the alongside better. I have been really enjoying the content of your latest comics.
I had never heard of Chihuahua cheese. I am sure you can imagine the image floating in my mind until I looked it up. :)
ditto!
I didn’t think I’d mind the loss of the diary, but I just love when the stories and the food diary coincide. There’s something really… endearing, I think is the word I want. And fascinating, too.
Am trying to decide why that it, exactly, but I think it has to do with how it shoes the relationship of what people eat to how they live in a really detailed and every day kind of way.