Glorious Meals on Wheels

Tucson’s Best Kept Secret

For a delightful and inexpensive night of tasteful exploration, try the Tucson Food Truck Roundup.

This Sunday, January 29, 4-8 pm, corner of Sixth Street/Seventh Avenue

Each Food Truck is its own kitchen on wheels. Each chef has her/his own way of combining fresh ingredients. We like keeping this event relatively unknown, and kind of small, so that we can all enjoy sampling different food truck cuisine. A little Sunday afternoon exploration.

Tables and chairs will be set up at the Benjamin Plumbing Supply parking lot and Tucson’s food trucks are invited to drop by.

Participating Food Trucks and brief description:
Mafooco (Korean Tacos)
Jane’s Rolling Wok (Chinese)
Guero Loco Bubba Q (smoked meats)
Jamie’s Bitchen Kitchen (Cuban sandwich)
Robdogs (variety of toppings. soy dogs, too.)
Red Pepper Mexican Gourmet
Jones St. Bistro (Premier Appearance!)
Cyclopsicle (frozen dessert on a stick)
Luncha Libre (Mexican gourmet)
Stolen Recipe BBQ (delicious smoked BBQ)
Baja Tacos (seafood oriented tacos)
Isabella’s Ice Cream (dairy and nondairy)
Street Delights (one word: pie)
Shinobu Diego’s Tacos y Burritos
Pinup Pastries (whoopie pies with a smile)
Street Kitchen (sesame chicken with zucchini tempura, edamame)
Vero Amore Neopolitan Pizza
Jake’s Donuts and Funnel Cakes (New to the Roundup!)
Seis Curbside (Mexican Nouveau cuisine)
Planet of the Crepes, 5 pm arrival (sweet or savory)
Possibly – Animal Farm after the Gem Show
Roasted Corn on the cob
Q UP! Barbeque(BBQ nachos, chicken wings)

Vegetarian samplings also available throughout.

On stage:
4:30 – 6 – The Shawn Kebler Trio (Jazz Fusion)

6:15 – 7:45 Those Beatles Guys (Beatles Tribute)

Thanks to Benjamin Plumbing Supply, the Southern Arizona Arts and Culture Alliance (SAACA), Yelp.com, JulieGraphics.com, and Tucson Food Trucks.

`A portion of the proceeds support Dinnerware Artspace.
`See Artists in Action: Mel Dominguez and David Tineo.
`The Art Library will be set up. Look through arts related books.
`Balloon twisting entertainment in food lines, and other buskers.
`Lots of onsite parking, and on street parking.
`Yappy Hour – bring friendly dogs

If you’re using your map app, enter: 76 E. Sixth Street, Tucson, Az. for directions.

The next Tucson Food Truck Roundup will gather February 6h, at the parking lot of the Tower Theatres in Marana, 5 -9 pm.
MyTowerTheatres.com for directions.

Food Truck Roundup - Jan 9

A variety of menu items to sample, watch the full moon rise, see The WonderFools, see an art exhibit by Neil Collins, listen to live music by ToReeNee Wolf.

Tucson Food Truck Roundup!
Monday, January 9, 2012
5-9 pm

New Location: 76 E. Sixth Street.
(Sixth Street/7th Ave). Parking on site.

Huge selection of Tucson Food Trucks, and 1-2 menu item descriptions:
-Guero Loco’s Bubba-Que, (“sMoK’n….up some BBq”)
-The Patty Wagon, (Gourmet hamburgers)
-Animal Farm, (falafel with tzatziki sauce, Berkshire pork belly banh mi)

-Mafooco, (Korean Tacos, Kimchi Quesadillas)
-Robdogs, (variety of hot dogs, toppings including chili or sauerkraut)
-Jamie’s Bitchin’ Kitchen, (Caribbean Jerk Chicken, Mojo Criollo Pork Cuban Sandwich)

-Cyclopsicle,(mango dipped in Chipotle Chocolate)
-Seis Curbside Kitchen, (Mexican food with a flare: yucatan tacos, burros, panuchas stuffed with black beans.)
-Pin Up Pastries, (Tracy’s whoopie pies, cake ops, cupcakes)

-Street Delights, (Variety of pies, creme brulee, chocolate cake)
-Stolen Recipe BBQ, (St. Louis style ribs smoked over pecan wood.)
-Vero Amore (Authentic Neapolitan Pizza)
-from Phoenix: Luncha Libre, (Oaxaca Quesadillas, Tortas, SW Salads)

An inexpensive dining night out with great company.
Live Music by ToReeNee Wolf,
Performance by The WonderFools,
Art exhibit by Neil Adam Collins, and
Arts activities for kids.

And don’t forget, it’s Yappy Hour! So, bring the pet!

A project of Dinnerware Artspace and Tucson Food Trucks.

Clean out refrigerator day

Today, November 15, is clean out your refrigerator day. I’m not making this up. There seems to be a day for everything these days.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, November 15 is this particular day because people will start buying food for Thanksgiving and the December holidays and now is a good as time as any to clean out the refrigerator.

About three months ago, I cleaned out my refrigerator — it was not pretty and I have managed to keep in sparse and sparkling.

In November 2006 I wrote a blog post for Circle of Food about cleaning out my refrigerator. I’ll share it with you:

Food Humor: Kitchen Chaos – What’s in Your Refrigerator?

At the end of every month, I somehow feel that a milestone has passed and want to conquer some project whether it be big or small. I looked at my desk and almost fainted. Then I looked at my other desk neglected across the room and had a panic attack. Thinking that the refrigerator would be a good place to start, I opened it. Ugh. The contents were not pretty and it was just as cluttered as the rest of my life but at least I wouldn’t have to decide to file or read everything. I’m embarrassed to write this but I threw away a carton of milk that expired July 27. Gross.

Here’s a list of what I tossed:

–Carcass of a rotisserie chicken
–3 eggs in a carton that expired October 11
–2 half empty cartons of shriveled cherry tomatoes
–very rotten cucumber
–½ bag of spinach dated during spinach scare
–½ bag of lettuce brown around the edges
–several mostly empty 32 oz yogurt containers with various expiration dates earlier in the month
–½ rotten banana
–unopened carton of vanilla soy milk that expired Feb 06
–Tupperware container with unidentified food source that resembled a Chiapet
–2 half empty jars of salsa one rimmed with mold
–jar of jalapenos with a mystery expiration date
–several restaurant doggie bags each with few bites of something now indiscernable
–Consorgio Jamaica Jerk 10 Minute Marinade expired/June 06/one third full
–Annie’s Natural papaya salad dressing expired Feb 06/one third full
–Trader Joe’s Ponzu Sauce half full, expired Feb 04
–San-J peanut dipping sauce no expiration date but smells funny
–Trader Joe’s peanut vinaigrette expired Sept 06 half full
–Assorted batteries expired
–Apple peach sauce no expiration date but has an odd smell
–Trader Joe’s Tuscan salad dressing expired Aug 06 mostly empty
–Kroger 100% grated parmesan cheese expired Feb 03 mostly full

As I was sharing this story with a friend who loves to cook, she was nodding her head vigorously the entire time. We both blamed it on Trader Joe’s because they have so many cool products, sauces, and dressings that it’s easy to buy some and use once or twice. Then they get pushed to the back of the bus as new items enter.

I guess I will have to break the habit of being a sauce queen.

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So, the burning question of the day is — what’s in your refrigerator?