It's that time of the year

With the holidays coming up, we decided to create a special holiday catering menu. If you'd rather spend time with your loved ones than slave away behind the stove, give us a call. If you're tired of the kitchen catching on fire, send us an e-mail. If you just want a delicious home-cooked Chinese-inspired meal, Facebook or Twitter us. This is just a sample menu. If you can think it up, we can probably cook it up. Just let us know what you're looking for and we'll work with you to create the best line-up for your special event.

We'll be doing a sampling of a few of these dishes at our truck stops this week.Check our calendar to see where we'll be and stop by for a free sample with any food purchase. Each day, we'll announce what item we'll be sampling that day.


We also plan on doing a canned food drive the week of Thanksgiving. Exact details will be announced the week of, but it will be something along the lines of bring a can, get $X off your sandwich.

We got another snow day last week. These Texans are slowly learning that we have to get up earlier to shuck the snow off the car.

PooShoe and Mama Liu decided to visit Chautauqua Park in Boulder this past Saturday. While it was very beautiful, Mama Liu almost got blown away by the 30-40 mph winds. PooShoe's left contact got blown up into the far corner of her eye and was stuck there for an hour. Fantastic. We made it less than 1/3 mile up the trail before turning back and hiding out in the car.

Cooking experiment of the week: Chocolate-Pumpkin Marble Cake. Lots of butter but mighty delicious. Used freshly pureed pumpkin and added toasted walnuts to the pumpkin batter and mint chocolate chips to the chocolate batter. The "do not touch" sign was to keep Gliu away while it was cooling. Also, we tried our hands at Hawaiian Sweet Bread Rolls. These didn't turn out quite as well. The dough was super sticky and we ended up having to add (too much) flour, which made them pretty dry and biscuit-like instead of light and fluffy. Might give these a shot another time. In any case, turned them into pretty tasty sliders. Beef patties stuffed with Monterrey Jack and topped with guacamole and caramelized onions. Yum.

Ridic story of the week: PooShoe is still giving out incorrect change to customers. Fortunately for the customers it's always too much change. Fortunately for The Sesame Seed the customers are honest citizens that alert PooShoe of her mistake and return the excess change. One word for PooShoe -- Kumon.