What do you do when you have a packet of sweet italian sausage in the fridge and you have to do something with it? You fry it up!
And luckily you have some onions and peppers hanging around so you cook those up too.
And then you  make yourself some delicious sausage sandwiches. But then you realize that when you were in Denver you had Biker Jim’s and he used cream cheese as a requisite condiment, so you use the cream cheese that’s in your fridge too. And it becomes an even more glorious sausage sandwich.

I got to attend the second FoodBuzz Blogger Festival this year, once again in San Francisco. For the opening night festivities, we headed out to Fort Mason for a Welcome Reception and Street Food Fair. They had these adorable mini cupcakes arranged to form a FoodBuzz sign.
They tasted awesome too. I’m not sure what flavors they were, but I’m guessing pumpkin or spice or something. They were definitely fall flavors.
There were also beautiful arrangements on the tables of some fruits, cheeses, breads, and crackers.
Roli Roti was there again this year, with their crazy porchetta sandwiches. There’s nothing like pork skin to make a sandwich taste better. And these fingerling potatoes were awesome, and you could totally tell they were cooked in pork fat.
Mind Your Tongue had some viking gumbo. They call it this because the chef is of viking heritage. But this is not gumbo, nor is it an old viking recipe. But it’s not bad.
They also had vegan paella. This wasn’t really paella either, but this was better than their “gumbo”.
Tacolicious provided a bunch of tacos. Honestly, I wasn’t very impressed with this at all. It was mostly blah.
French street food? Why yes! This is the truck version of Chez Spencer.
Here is the new england lobster cappuccino soup and the braised lamb chunks sandwich. Good stuff.
But my favorite thing of the evening was Namu’s korean tacos. They were ssam style tacos made with kalbi short ribs, seasoned rice, pickled daikon and kimchee salsa, kimchee remoulade, and a drizzle of housemade teriyaki sauce, folded into japanese and korean toasted seaweed. This is my type of taco! What a fun night!

I had to go to New Orleans for work and had a little bit of time to roam around on the weekend. After unsuccessfully trying to dine at Eat, we ended up at Magnolia Grill. They bill themselves as a diner. We even sat at the counter. It’s nothing fancy, but cute and inviting on the inside. There’s some outdoor seating too.
The blackened shrimp po boy. We sure did have our share of po boys while we were here. It’s super simple, just a bunch of blackened shrimp inside french bread, served with lettuce and tomato. It’s simple and good.
I vowed to myself that while I was in New Orleans, I would only eat New Orleans cuisine. So here we have the crawfish etouffee. I liked this but this was probably the most authentic etouffee I’ve ever had, so I was surprised by how strong and seafood-y it was. It made me realize how weak the other etouffees I’ve had had been. It’s probably all in the roux. It’s not fancy food here, just good food at decent prices. It’s a nice and casual option.