Mango Friday

Today I had to cut up about 20 mangoes.  Just the smell in the room made me swoon.  It's not better than sex but it's close.  Blogging is kind of new for me so any input is always appreciated.  I'll be talking about restaurants, food, and whatever else comes to mind.  Since I'm pretty darn passionate about food that should be the majority, but we'll just have to wait and see if I can do this at all.  The written word is clearly not my forte, but I should improve with time.  My cooking has improved in that manner so I write from experience.

It's so cool that mangoes come in so many flavors, sizes and colors.  I didn't take pictures of this batch but a few them deserved to be in pictures.  Believe it or not some of them had pits that deserved to be in pictures.  Very small flat pits that are perfect for nibbling.  Yes I like my steak to be on the bone.  No, I'm into women so no snide remarks about that last line.

I might lose my job today and it doesn't matter.  Why, cause I just cut 10 pounds of beautiful juicy mangoes.  I'm also about to sit down to leftover, cold, bulgogi lamb rib.  The last one since my kids must have eaten all the other leftovers.  Damn shame.  What a gorgeous fatty piece of meat.  The bulgogi baste and sauce only made it more addictive.

Lastly for today (I think).  I was chatting with somebody yesterday and they were eating cold sushi from Publix.  Couple things I need to say here. 

1.  Never eat cold sushi unless there is no option.  Refrigerated rice tastes terrible.  If you are anywhere near downtown Ft. Lauderdale or even if you're not.  Get over to Sushi 1 and get some take out sushi.  It is the best sushi in town for the money.

2.  Having lived in Japan for a few years I definitely have a better understanding of the rice issue than most American but still don't have the palette of the Japanese.  Having said that Sushi 1's rice is excellent.  They do it as well as anyone in South Florida.

3.  If supreme Sushi is what you want you could go to Nobu(but only if money doesn't matter at all.  A Trumpian sense is necessary to eat there) where the Sushi is excellent, but the service is abysmal.  I would send any Japanese person I know to Matsuri which is on the edge of the Gables at Bird and Red Road.  They always have Toro which is hard to find elsewhere.  They usually have a few different types of Toro(Yessss).  If you don't know what Toro is it's fatty tuna belly.  One of the best things you can eat.  And if you want to eat it now's the time.  Who knows when we'll kill off the Tuna population. 

Thanks for hanging with me for a little while today.  Talk at you tomorrow.