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Skriven 2006-10-25 08:10:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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Mass. eats

Gethsemane Farms Kentucky Bourbon butter walnut fudge - there's
not much here to nosh on, and I'm reduced to eating Christmas
presents that I had no intention of eating. I had no right to
like this junk - the ingredients list goes sugar, white chocolate,
evaporated milk, marshmallow, butter, Bourbon, walnuts, invert
sugar, corn syrup, and salt, most of which are things I don't
care to eat and which in the aggregate form a monstrous "diabetes
on a plate" - but found it surprisingly pleasant. It was very
buttery, Bourbony, and walnutty, with a really subtle milk
caramel taste that reminded me of the White Rabbit candies that
I used to love so much. I had two ounces for lunch - immediately
started to sweat profusely. This was way up there on the
concentrated Calories scale.

Bianco's hot Italian sausage - my friend Ernie used to wax poetic
about these, which are made in a butcher shop a shortish distance
from the apartment. I never bothered to walk those couple miles
but was pleased when trays of the sausage started turning up at
the local supermarket. I bought six of them (sausages, not trays).
Ate a couple right off, put a couple into sauce, and froze a
couple. Straight, they're pretty good, very juicy, nice pork
flavor with a good balance of spices (until I hit that inevitable
whole fennel seed). In sauce, the flavors became a bit muted - I
guess here a saltier, more aggressively-spiced sausage might do
better -; a little braising made these into little more than meatballs,
although I must admit that on biting into a reasonable-sized chunk,
the heat (white and red pepper) continued to linger in my mouth
longer than expected. I blame a dearth of garlic: the fact that
the main clientele appears to be grillers may have something to do
with that (burned garlic is an acquired taste).

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Two flavors of Blue Diamond almonds. 

BOLD Maui onion and garlic - no Allium nose, in fact little
aroma at all. On the palate - dehydrated onion and green onion,
not much if any garlic. A little almond taste that gives way
to an onion-soup finish. Not very good, maybe C.

BOLD Wasabi and soy - a cheap soy sauce nose; on the palate, a
touch of onion (as though made on the same line as the above),
followed by a hit of horseradish, followed by soy sauce, then
more horseradish. Sort of like what happens when you put way
too much green stuff on your piece of sushi. Unfortunately,
hardly any almond taste at all until the very finish, which is
of almond skin (not the nut itself). Fair to poor, C- or so.
P.S. I ate the rest of the (tiny) can when I was really hungry
and would upgrade the rating on that experience to C+.
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