sun-dried tomatoes!

07Apr08

Current novelty item: sun-dried tomatoes.

I watched Alton Brown recommend these in his pasta episode, they came in the Evelyn’s Favorite Pasta dish at the Cheesecake Factory (thats TWO pasta dishes that aren’t smothered in cream sauce!!!), and they were layered in Patrick’s chicken & eggplant sandwich at Foodheads (which I highly recommend in case I never get around to writing about it).

After asking a few employees, I finally found them on a rack with prepackaged nut and dried fruit mixes. Kind of odd, but whatever, I was just pleased HEB had enough class to stock them. I was so excited about them I decided to make my own version of Evelyn’s Favorite (less pasta, less oil). I ate a few pieces while cutting them and then decided to just shove whole ones in my mouth. They are appealing, but there is a slight bitter taste if you put a whole one in your mouth without anything else.

Basically, everyone should use this item to spruce up an ordinary dish (either sub for normal tomatoes or keep both or put it in regardless of whether there were tomatoes to begin with).

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