This weekend I was very busy, and a combination of odd public transport experiences and a lack of desire to be traipsing over the Valley in the course of a morning meant that I did not do L this week.
I did try something new, which I will get to soon. This is very rare, as a lot of you know. I have a tendency to seek out new things, and what starts as a pool, turns to a puddle and then a trickle if you remain in one city doing this. The trickle eventually becomes a drip, especially if you have friends from all over the world, but now reside here, helping you to find things you have never eaten.
The drops come in the form of fusion, Crocodile Teppanyaki, or odd flavours, wasabi and mint ice cream. There are still heaps of things I haven’t eaten, but the things available in Brisbane that I haven’t tried are getting fewer. Not that this is bad, if anything it means I need to get a passport.
Until then, I shall continue to eat at new places (for me) in Brisbane. Sunday we ate at Pit Boss American BBQ & Eats, in Coorparoo.
I love Ribs
I’m not ashamed to admit it, I love ribs. I love the mess they make, I love the flavour and if I can get away with it I love licking the plate clean. I usually miss bits of sauce on my face when I clean it afterwards, and most the time I wind up with sauce on my clothes. Once on my forehead. Sticky fingers. The lingering taste of sauce.
My favourite ribs are from Ribbets, but Pit Boss had some pretty good ribs too. They weren’t very fatty, it mostly felt like I was eating lean meat, and they came off the bone pretty easily. Naturally I ordered them spicy.
The plate came out with a small stack of ribs covered in bbq sauce. With a bowl of chips and slaw on the side, not a lot of slaw but it was there. The chips were good, they were well cooked and covered in bbq salt. I really liked the bbq salt flavour, but I am really glad I ordered 2 cherry colas as well. The slaw was there, it tasted like an afterthought. I am pretty sure if you are buying a plate of ribs you are not thinking “I hope I get slaw”. Maybe you are, but I am not. I am thinking “I wonder if it will actually be spicy”.
Not for me.
At first I thought it was just that they gave me mild ribs, and they may have, but as I look at the packet of 2 X Spicy Hot Chicken Flavour Ramen I think it may have been my palate. They were still delicious. Not as good as Ribbets, but definitely worth having again.
This combined with dessert made me want to nap.
Dessert
I got three scoops of ice cream for dessert.
The first scoop I am going to talk about was the last one I ate. Key Lime pie ice cream. t was bright green and sprinkled with biscuit crumbs. It tasted like key lime pie plus. Making this thing into an ice cream flavour was a great idea. By the time I got to it though, it had melted enough that it took me about 30 seconds to eat it. Still tasted pretty good.
The second scoop, and the one I ate, or at least finished, second, was Peanut Butter and Jelly ice cream. It tasted like someone had a make your own ice cream kit and thought that using actual peanut butter and jelly was better than using just those flavours. They were right. I am not usually a peanut butter person, unless it is mixed with garlic (my mouth not was so lump it) but this was really good. It felt like there were chunks of peanut butter throughout it. I want more just thinking about it.
The last scoop I want to talk about.
The first one I ate.
The new flavour I hadn’t tried before.
I had always wonder what something like this would be like ever since I saw a similar thing on a Heston Blumenthal show.
Was.
SMOKED MAPLE BACON FLAVOURED ICE CREAM!
Ok, this stuff was everything it said on the box. I tasted like smoked maple bacon. It tasted like ice cream. The texture got a little weird toward the end, but hey IT’S BACON. I was amazed at how this tasted. I was expecting it to taste more like ice cream with a hint of bacon. Like when your friend makes home made spirits and it tastes more like the alcohol bit and less like the flavour it’s meant to. This genuinely tasted like smoked maple bacon. It was pretty good.
I know I am known for adding chili sauce to a lot of things, such as waffles and ice cream, coffee, popcorn, chocolate etc, but I genuinely think this would go awesomely with hot chili sauce. On it’s own it was great, chili smoked maple bacon ice cream though would be amazing.
Stopping there…
I am going to wrap up here as my head now is trying to imagine what Sriracha, Smoked Maple Bacon Ice Cream and Bees would taste like combined.
I love the fact I actually have all of those flavours in my memory to mix in my head.
I wonder if I supplied my own bees and Sriracha would Pit Boss be upset?
Probably not.
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