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Eating at Food Cart ‘Oh Boy! Po Boy!’ in Bakersfield, California

So as you all know, if you have been following my last few post, I road tripped to Las Vegas from Oregon Via California. Currently, in the time line, I am stopped for the night in Bakersfield, California. And I can’t not go checkout some dope food carts. Or in this case a food cart, as I am only stationary for a few hours.

I always like doing research prior to my trips for, food spots that I might want to try while I’m traveling. I had several options, but settled on ‘Oh Boy! Po Boy!’ food cart in the Bakersfield area. After checking out their Yelp reviews and their Instagram, I found out where they were located.

‘Oh Boy! Po Boy’ currently is only open 3 days a week and they are in a different places on those days, Thursday-Saturday. I happened to catch the cart on a Thursday, therefore, they were located in the rear of Great Change Brewers in Bakersfield.

Photo from Oh Boy! Po Boy website.

I always checkout the menu before I go to most restaurants. And if there are pictures of the food, even better; I can get an idea of what to expect.

‘Oh Boy! Po Boy!’ menu is super simple. However, after checking out their Instagram, I discovered that they had one secret menu item.

This small, unassuming trailer, of which I passed by twice. Thus, having to call to make sure I was in the right place. It doesn’t look like much, and the sign they have was so small (get a bigger sign!!! 😉 ).

But, once I walked up to the cart, I was greeted by a nice young man name Austin who happen to be both Chef and Owner of ‘Oh Boy! Po Boy!’

Super kind individual, showed me what I would be getting, if I wanted to eat there, but I decided to take my meal to go so I could enjoy it in the comfort of my hotel room.

I mention the secret menu item before, which is what I order. A 2 face Po Boy and Chicharron plate.

Now if you want to know what I thought about the food, you will have to check the video put on my YouTube Channel.

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Cake Mix Cookies 3 Ways

Hey everyone, I hope you are having a great December and that your Holidays have been relaxing. Christmas Eve, traditional, my daughters and I make cookies. But now they are getting older and not so important to make cookies, which is fine. But I still like to do it, so this year I decided to try a new recipe that I saw from one of my favorite YouTuber. The recipe has been around for a long time, but I just found it recently. Cake Mix Cookies are so easy and you can add whatever flavors you decide.

For my Cake mix cookies I used Vanilla cake mix but you can use which ever you like and I also changed the oil. I used butter instead of vegetable or canola oil. So below I will include the base recipe and be sure to check out the video to see my process.

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Base Cake Mix Cookie Recipe: 1 box of Cake Mix, 1/4cup of flour, 2 extra large or jumbo eggs, 1/2 cup melted Butter

Ingredients for Cake Mix Cookies

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Painting My Converse Sneakers

Hey my Foodie friends. I just got my first pair of Converse Sneakers, the Converse Move. These are platform sneaker and they are really comfortable to me. However, I could not just wear the shoes plain. I had to paint them to fit me. Your suppose to paint your converse right???

Type of Paint

I am a big researcher and knew that I could not use any kind of paint on canvas sneakers. I found the most common brand was Angelus Acrylic Leather paint. I went to my local art store and found they had some in stock. But if you do not have a dedicated art store, you can find Angelus on Amazon. (Click here). I also needed painters tape to mask where I did not want the paint. Along with the colors, I also got a finishing medium in the same brand to protect my work and to give it a shine. I purchased Satin Finish instead of a flat or glossy; it produces just enough shine for my liking.

Paint Brushes

Because I was working with acrylic, I needed acrylic brushes to ensure the paint went on smoothly. I found some at Walmart, but Here are some from Amazon.

Other Required Materials

Some of the other things I need was a cup of water; a palette to mix paint colors or a piece of wax paper or plastic work well too; towels to wipe paint on or brushes and to lay down on the painting surface so it doesn’t get messy; blow dryer to make the drying process faster in between coats.

Designs

Now I have my supplies, what to paint… Something food-related of course. I sketched out what I wanted on my shoes; a bowl of ramen and a food truck. Now it was time to create.

Where to Paint

I decided to paint on the outside of the sneaker as it was the only area that did not have a logo. And I also painted the strip in the very back as well.

The Finished Product

The whole process took about 5-6 hours to finish both shoes and I let them dry a full 24 before I wore them. This was an awesome experience and I love how they came out. The design is so me; Foodie all the way!

If you guys have ever painted your sneakers, I would love to see them. You can leave in the comments or tag me in your photo on Instagram @Gloriousgal and I will repost you on my Story.

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How to Make Shrimp Egg Foo Yung with Brown Gravy

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Ingredients:

  • 5 Jumbo eggs
  • 1 bag Bean Sprouts
  • 10 Jumbo or Colossal Shrimp
  • 5 Cremini Mushrooms
  • 1 Tbsp. Butter
  • 2 Tsp Cooking Starch
  • 1/2 Large Onion
  • 1 Tbsp. Diced Garlic
  • Kosher Salt
  • Cooking Oil
  • Powder Beef Soup or Bouillon cube

Tools:

  • Cutting Board
  • Knife
  • Large Pan or Wok
  • Large Spoon used for mixing or scooping soup
  • Spatula
  • Plate
  • Paper Towel
  • Sauce Pot
  • Small Spoon
  • Large Mixing bowl
  • Strainer
  • 1 cup measuring cup

Direction:

  1. DO THIS FIRST: In sauce Pot Boil bean sprouts for 3 minutes and drain and rinse in cold water to stop cooking.
  1. Let the sprouts sit in strainer until ready for use.
  1. In same pot, add 2 cups water and beef powder. Let come to boil. Slice 2 mushroom and added
  1. Let boil for 5 minutes. Dissolve 2 tsp of cooking Starch in 3 tsp of water and add to beef broth.
  1. Stir and let simmer on low heat while cook remainder of dish
  1. Cut Jumbo Shrimp into bite size pieces
  1. Slice 3 Mushrooms
  1. Dice Onion
  1. Add these ingredients and bean sprouts to Bowl
  1. Add 5 eggs and mix. Add Salt to taste (a few pinches)
  1. Heat oil in Pan or Wok on high heat until you start to see smoke and then turn down to medium high heat.
  1. You want about 2 to 3 inches high of oil. Once oil is hot, add a heaping spoon full of your mix into the oil near
  1. The side of the pan, easing the last bit in the oil slowly. (watch video above for example)
  1. Take spatula and begin bathing egg in hot oil. After the edges start to brown, flip over and bathe again.
  1. Egg is done when it is firm when you add pressure with the spatula.
  1. When done cooking drain on plate and paper towel or if you have a cookie rack, that will work to.
  1. You can cook about 2 at a time if you are making them large.
  1. Keep an eye on you oil temp. You may want to turn the heat up after awhile because you will see white bubble
  1. And it will look as if it is cooking slower DO NOT, YOU WILL BURN YOU FOOD AND/OR OIL
  1. Plate your Egg Foo Yung and top with your brown Gravy. This goes well with rice or even quinoa
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New Website

Hey everyone, giving you a update. After many hours of chatting and on the phone help, I have moved all my subscribers and followers over to the new site so you have nothing to do but check it out. You will receive the same notification of new post and such as before and the old site is now private. So lock in https://gloriousgalstudio.net

As for what’s new: my store is active with just 3 items for now. Because of COVID, a lot of my products are unavailable right now, but I am hoping in the coming weeks my t-shirt and sweatshirts will be available. All designs are my brain children, so I hope you will support my creative products. Most product revolve around food, travel and self-care themes.

I am also integrating my photography portfolio into this site, but they will come as new post although my initial postings were 2 year ago, that transfer failed, so I will do it manually.

There are a few posts that also did not transfer over and I may or may not repost them again in the future.

Needless to say the transfer has been anything but smooth and I am still working on restoring feature photos on most of my older post, but for the most part everything is coming along and the new website is up and running and now allows me the freedom to shape my website the way I want!!!

So I hope you all continue to stick with me through this journey, I have so much to share with you on food, travel, photography and more!!!

-Gloria

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Asian Fusion at Bites Restaurant in Forest Grove, Oregon

One of the things I love about the Portland, Oregon metro area is that, it has a plethora of awesome food. Even better is that you don’t have to go into the heart of Portland to find great food because the smaller cities and towns around the area have some great food options as well. Bites Restaurant in Forest Grove is one such place.

Locally Sourced

Bites is an Asian Fusion Restaurant that sources a good portions of its ingredients and products locally. They get their meat from local Carlton Farms in Carlton, Oregon and their on-tap brews from area breweries. Such a great example of community businesses supporting each other.

Now this isn’t my first experience at Bites. I came here over a year ago and tried a few items and they were tasty. But this time, with new additions to their menu, we (my oldest daughter and I) tried several new things. But first, the menu.

The Menu

This menu has a bit of everything; from pasta and ramen, to burgers and fish options; most having notes of Asian flavor; from kimchi to tempura and everything in between. However, although the menu is a fusion of a lot of Asian-American flavors , there are some Mexican and Italian influences and flavors, all combining to create some very tasty options.

This time around we ordered 3 menu items to share. Let go from my least favorite (still good though) to my favorite.

Classic Gyoza

We order two small plates as the menu calls them, the first being the the Classic Gyoza. This small dumpling is filled with pork and pan fried. The skin was nice and thin and the filling was flavorful; there was just the right amount of filling. The Gyoza sauce that comes on the side was not my favorite thing, as it has a off putting after flavor. The dumpling were good without it.

K-Town Tacos

We also order the K-Town tacos with the kabli beef as our protein choice. This dish has two soft yellow corn tortillas with kalbi beef, lettuce onions, tomatoes (which I had omitted), jalapeños and a aioli with a side of Beer Fries. When I saw this dish, it looked a bit dry and I thought I was going to need some sauce to add to the top like I do most of my tacos, but no. This taco needed nothing but for me to eat it. The beef was tender and seasoned and grilled very well; the veggies balanced the meat out and made it filling and the aioli bound it all together. And those beer fries… let’s just say, I am glad they have those as a separate small plate item because I can definitely eat a plate of those alone.

Dynamite Nachos

The second small plate item we ordered and by far my favorite menu item so far (I haven’t tried everything yet, but I will at some point) are the Dynamite Nachos. These are corn tortilla chips with tempura shrimp, chunky Pico De Gallo guacamole, cheese and aioli. Now I have a sensitivity to tomatoes so I usually will have them removed from my dishes, but you can not remove tomatoes from Pico De Gallo of course, so I just left it and I am glad I did. So fresh and tasty especially with the chunky avocado. The shrimps were tender and yummy, but the thing that brought the whole dish together was the aioli. The aioli was like a sweet chili sauce that elevated all the flavors and made this menu item number one in my book. These are the best restaurant nachos I have had, dethroning my long time favorite Old Chicago’s Italian Nachos.

Great Restaurant

Overall, if you happen to be in the Portland, Oregon metro area and you are looking for good food outside of the hustle and bustle of the major city, check out the surrounding smaller towns in the area. You could be missing out on some beautiful food gems like Bites in Forest Grove otherwise.

By the way this Is Not a sponsored post. All opinions and photography are my own.

Until next time, remember to Cook, Eat and Enjoy!!!

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Christmas Gift Ideas: Top 6 Food And Cookbooks

Being a Personal Chef and a food lover, I enjoy a good cookbook. Of course, being in the age of technology, books can be download on our phones and other devices that we can take with us easily. However, I still love a good ole fashioned book, especially when it comes to cookbooks or food books of any kind. And since we are weeks away from Christmas, I wanted to give you guys some Christmas gift ideas for the food lovers in your life or even for yourself. These books are in no special order. The links below are my affiliate links and I have linked to the hard copy of these books.

1.Thug Kitchen The Offical Cook Book

This cookbook is all about getting people to eat their veggies with no hold bars on the language. The recipes are veggie-focused but do not sacrifice flavor. They also have a few other books in the collections. Additionally, they have a website and a Podcast.
2.Fork Over Knives Cookbook
If you are looking for another cookbook that is centered around whole-foods and a plant-based diet, this one is your winner with over 200 recipes.
3. The Complete Air Fryer CookBook…
If you have an Air Fryer or thinking about getting one, this is the cookbook for you, giving you 600 recipes specifically for the Air Fryer. Everything from fried to Baked meals.
4. The Ultimate Instant Pot Cookbook
If you have an Instant Pot, this is the cookbook for you with 800 recipes.

 

5. Salt Fat Acid Heat

This book is very popular and actually has a series on Netflix. This book explains the whys and fundamentals of good cooking.
6. The Flavor Bible
This last book every cook should have in their library. This book will be sure to inspire those who love to cook and experiment in the kitchen.
I hope this gives you some ideas for Christmas. Until next time, remember to Cook, Eat and Enjoy.