Burger Challenge # 26

There are very few chain burger joints on the list. Two, I think, and they certainly aren't the usual highway stops. Despite being a chain, we just love Five Guys Burgers and Fries. A regular burger comes with 2 patties. You pay a little less for just one patty. You pay a little extra for cheese or bacon. Every other topping is free, and there are about 15 of them. You could even get all of them if you wanted. The fries are plain, or cajun, and if you go with 2 people, just order the smaller of the 2 sizes. It's plenty.This is the second installment of our burger challenge; to eat at all 40 places on Cincinnati Magazine's list of the best burgers in town and Five Guys was number 26 on the list, hence the title of this post.

#35 Gordo's Cafe was first.

To see the photos from our hamburger Ohio trip, where we checked out the 6 best burgers in the state, according to George Motz, click here.

To see the photos of our Hamburger Honeymoon, click here.

Burger Challenge # 35

Ok, First stop Gordo's Pub and Grill, Norwood, OH

The Cincinnati Magazine article says, "This modest pub serves an immodestly sized, bulbous burger stacked with roasted poblano chiles, sauteed mushrooms, onions, smoked bacon, garlicky Boursin cheese, and mayonnaise. It's a good burger that would have been a great burger had the medium rare we ordered not been served well done."

Huh

Well, we decided to try it anyway.
This was mushroomy app.
My burger was the Jean-Robert. If you're from Cincinnati, you know who that is. It had grape compote on top, aka, grape jam. Ryan had something with bacon, I don't even remember what. It was pretty good. I'd recommend the place, but wouldn't call it the best burger. hmmm. I kinda feel bad about saying that.


This is our first attempt at eating all 40 burgers that Cincinnati Magazine recommends.

If you would like to see the pictures from our Six Best Burgers in Ohio trip, they are here.

To see our Hamburger honeymoon photos, see here.

Burger Challenge

Mr. Pie and I love burgers. We love them so much, that many of you know that we based our honeymoon on finding the best burgers in the south of these united states. We've seen everything, from ones made of Kobe to fois gras to emu, tofu, mushrooms, chickpeas..etc. We love it all, too.This is the Ghetto Burger from Ann's Snack Bar in Atlanta, GA

Well, recently, Cincinnati Magazine put out a list in one of their issues of the 40 Best Burgers in Cincinnati.

We'll take that challenge.

Unfortunately, I can't link you to the article to see the list, but I copied it from the issue at the library.

Get ready, get the tums. Here we come.

Perfect Brownie Pan

Makes perfect brownies! The only catch is that you have to use an ass-load of cooking spray on the dividers and then it's a bitch to clean. You also have to push down really hard if you put nuts in your batter. Oh, well.

Damn!

A little goes a long way!

Ryan's Dad died a couple weeks ago. Those of you listening know that Ryan is my husband. His Dad was one bad-ass. We've been caught up in all the grieving for a bad-ass that you can expect.

But in the mean time, we saw some an awesome cicada on the long way home from work:Here in the Cincinnasty, we have 17 year Cicadas, but we have a few queer ones that show up off schedule. They're my fave.

My BBF Karen went to the renegade craft fair today. Can way say waaaaaay jealous?!?!?!?! Jesus. I can't.

More on-schedule blogging to follow. I love you. You know who you are.

You're a lot of horrible things, but a plum cake isn't one of them

Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Unfortunately, however, you are also a horrible plum cake.

I found that in my very own neighborhood of Clifton, which is reason 5465 why I like it so much. A few years ago I found these:

They had labels that read "Random Acts of Knitting" I loved it!

Needlepoint schoolin'

Look what I've been up to!

Inspired by my friend Katie's friend, Sam, I wanted to try my crafty hands at needlepoint. I went to Michael's crafts, armed with some 50% coupons, ready to get started. This is when I discovered that there are about 3243 different kinds of needlepoint. I settled on punch needle, since it looked the most self explanatory, and it was. Some people also call it "pretty punch." I've made that cute owl up there so far and now I am working on a cardinal. I can't wait to get really good at it so that I can make my own patterns, and then, eventually, learn all the other forms of needle point!

What have you been crafty at lately?