The Foodnista

Great Googamooga!!!!

The first Great Googamooga festival held in Brooklyn’s Neathermead Park over the weekend was definitely a sight to see! All of the boroughs came out to sample the goods from over 40 vendors and shops. Rising temperatures, limited food supply and long lines were not enough to keep partrons from having a good time. Many happily waited for patiently to get to the front of the line to try out everything from clam chowder to maple flavored cotton candy. 

While you bounced from booth to booth hoping to get a shot at the coveted food, there was plenty of entertainment to keep everyone amused and hype throughout the day. The real treat was the final set by none other than The Roots. They took the stage and launched into a live set list of Roots classics. If you were fortunate enough to get free tickets to the Googamooga then aces to you, but if you shelled out the additional $250 for the VIP extra googa tickets you got something else. Namely not enough food options or availability and an apology plus full refund from the producers of the event. It seems that they were not prepared for the amount of people that signed up, so they said sorry this ones on us. 

All in all the great googamooga was a great time. I’m sure we all learned a lot from this experience (I learned to get there right when it starts to get the most food intake). Next year I’m sure we will be met with many of the same vendors but hopefully not the same issues. 

Food Files: The Prime Burger

PB and…J

Have you ever had a warm peanut butter and jelly sandwich? I love them. Years ago when I was low on funds and was hungry I decided to make a pb and j sandwich but because it was cold out and I wanted to feel filled up I tossed it in a pan and voila! I had just created my new favorite comfort food. 

I made these for my boo one day who kind of scoffed at the idea of a plain old peanut butter and jelly until I told him you have to have it warmed this way. Once he ate it he was hooked too and said it was absolutely delicious!

When The Chips Are Down

I’ve been experiencing a bit of a slump in my finances lately. Though it is something that I don’t want to readily admit, it is a bit stinging and annoying when I pass by a shoe store, or see a sweater that I l want or a restaurant that I so eagerly want to pop in to. I think today I hit an even lower point than I had imagined. Coming from a few errands I decided that I couldn’t continue to run on the fumes left over from my morning coffee and grab a snack before heading home. I quickly checked my change purse for some coins ($1.55) and headed to the newsstand for some chips. Perusing the assortment I chose some ranch peppery concoction and checked the bag for a price. I didn’t find one so I asked the man behind the counter. Of course he was on the phone and after a rousing pantomime he told me they were $2. For a small bag of chips? Fine. I plopped the chips back on the shelf and quickly left. 

Has it really come to this that I can’t afford an over priced bag of chips at any given moment? No matter that I have a debit card, they weren’t going to take that. I found my lack of coins as a somewhat parallel to a lack of happy or something in my life. I’m so bogged down that I even when I know I am in need of something and can feel the urge to get it, I can’t because I don’t have the proper funding. It’s like I need to land a fantastic gig but I don’t have enough skill or pizazz to get it. If that’s true I not only need to get more coins in my change purse and carry cash I  need to put my focus in a better direction. Needless to say all was not lost. I stopped into my local bodega and got a large bag of  UTZ chips for a whopping dollar. I guess this is the point where I would learn that if I wait it out and try another door I can get what I want and probably a lot more of it too…hmmm, maybe…