What a fine Sunday evening to get drunk and talk about books!!
I recently received a new cookbook from Blogging for Books and after drinking several whiskeys at my Steelers bar this afternoon, I figured why not make myself something delicious and get further hammered.
Enter The Grand Central Market Cookbook. For all you NOOBS out there, the GCM is this cool ass place in DTLA that has pretty great food and epic lines for said food. It's my go to tourist destination because I feel like it gives a pretty LA vibe, but is still fun to hang out in. I've been to a handful of the venues: Eggslut, Golden Road, Oysters, Mcconnells. It's pretty freakin sweet. And now they have a cookbook! All these places AND MORE feature some delicious sounding stuff.
The book itself is cool, it has everything from breakfast to dessert and tons of fun shit in between. THERE IS A WHOLE SECTION ABOUT SALSAS! And it's well designed, lots of cool pictures and quotes about LA.
So after a bunch of whiskeeeyyyyy on iiiiiice, I decided to make a bomb ass cocktail and some ah-MAH-zing tacos.
The drink comes from the "Courage and Craft" Stall (A-1!!!!!!). They talk about how there are three conventional cocktail families: The Fix, The Buck, and The Maid. I chose the fix which is lemon juice, simple syrup, bourbon (OH HELLO THERE FRIEND), and seasonal fruit. I chose plums??
APPARENTLY what distinguishes THE FIX is that it's served over CRUSHED ICE. Enter MY HAMMER:
The drink was pretty fucking easy to make and VERY delicious (I'm on my second one).
So now it's time for the main course. There was a whole section dedicated to tacos, so it seemed like the best route to take. Golden Road Brewing (STALL A-9!!!!) (They make a big deal about telling you what stall these places are in, but they don't include a map, so it seems pretty fucking stupid to mention the stall. Like, when I'm there, I'm just going to look for the NAME not like oh, I made delicious tacos from that cookbook. The name is escaping me, but I TOTALLY REMEMBER THE STALL NUMBER!) had these CRUNCHY AVOCADO TACOS and while they said they were vegan (nothing dries me up like the word vegan) they looked pretty good and I had some ripe avocados so let's DO THIS SHIT.
They're served with a salsa from the SECTION OF SALSAS! And you know what, I think the salsa was the biggest bitch to make. JUST LOOK AT ALL THESE STEPS:
After making the salsa, it's time to batter, bread, and fry up some avocados. The batter calls for an entire beer, and don't tell anyone, I did not use Golden Road beer. (Sorry guys, I had some rando beers in my fridge that I felt like wasting.) This was not as daunting as I assumed it would be, but at this point, I was pretty drunk:
After that, it was basically just throwing all the shit together and TAH DAH FOOD TIME BITCHES:
They were pretty fucking good. The whole time my face was like this:
Probably cause I was drunk though.
FUCK.
Sorry, I was busy CLEANING UP THE ENTIRE DRINK I SPILLED ON MY COUCH. Does bourbon stain??? Where was I???
Well, I completely lost track of what I was talking about... sooo let's just rank this shit.
Would I talk about this book while drunk? I don't know man. I'll definitely tell the story of ruining my couch. I'm pretty sure I'll talk about the tacos too. They were good. Ten out of ten, would eat again.
Would I recommend this book while drunk? I mean, it's a fine book for a free book. I wouldn't tell anyone to spend their money on it. Just go to the stalls and buy the food instead. The book probably costs more than a cocktail and some tacos. You could probably even get ice cream too. OOoooOooooOOooo ice cream...
Sorry readers, I really lost my stamina after I lost my delicious cocktail to the couch gods. I was hoping tonight would be a double header since I need to talk about Jackson, but that was a major buzzkill. I need to find something to drink before I can even think about another DBR.
