Just some odd and ends to get the weekend started:
Links – the edible kind:
I know Jo from Truly Thankful must be kind of curious as to what happened to all those sausages she generously gave me on my trip to Mountain View. Well I did manage to take a few pictures over the last few weeks when I remembered to.
The Sheboygan Brats ended up in a little beer bath:
And in a nice toasted bun with some brown mustard and sauerkraut:
With the andouille, I quickly whipped up a Jambalaya:
I really don’t remember what the heck I did. Though I did forget one thing; believe it or not, I forgot the rice! Yes, I forgot to make rice. I’m still trying to live that one down. So we ended up eating this on some toasted French Dip Rolls:
It ended being quite Delici-yoso!!! And the sausages from Dittmer’s were excellent! Thanks again, Jo!
Now links of the other kind:
I usually check referring sites; sometimes with some interesting results. Though none quite match up with Pam’s "What Brings You to These Parts" post. A few days ago I noticed a referring site that I did not recognize. When I clicked on the URL, it turned out to be a site called Casing the Joint, and it belongs to a Gentleman called Jay Porter who happens to be Proprietor of a Local Restaurant called The Linkery. It’s his personal restaurant blog; sort of the other side of the counter. Though many of the posts are "informational", that is, weekly specials and menu changes, some are very interesting, such as his "musing of reviews of his Restaurant". I even posted a comment, asking his opinion of posts/reviews of his Restaurant by Food Bloggers, and he even answered, both on his blog, and sent me a very nice Email to boot. In addition, I found it very interesting that he has links to Beth’s, Angie’s, Annie’s, and My blog, among others. I got his permission to link to his blog, and here’s his response to Bloggers doing posts on his restaurant:
"I wouldn’t presume to tell you how to blog! Truly.
I think the food blogs are a great source of serious food writing in town, between the fact that the writers are unpaid and that they have no space limitations, as a reader I get great insights into the bloggers’ experience.
As I mentioned in this post, I respect the subjective views of every reviewer, no matter what they are. That’s frankly the best part about reading food writing.
As far as the factual stuff, I think blogs are rightfully held to a lower standard than print newspapers, because a blogger can immediately correct, in the original post, an error which is called to his attention. Which newspapers can’t really do.
Anyway, please come in and blog about it. It’s very good (and helpful) to read opinions from real people. I actually Google us regularly to see what bloggers and forum users are saying about us, figuring this is probably very accurate feedback, and we can best learn what we should be (or are correctly) working on. "
"Let me add this thought: the best possible event that could increase restaurant quality in this town would be the emergence of twenty or so popular, critical, honest, prolific food bloggers, each with unique tastes, perspectives, and budgets, blogging about all their restaurant visits. In an environment like that, all restaurants would be heavily incented to provide great quality and value at least to a certain segment of the eating-out community. "
Looks like someone really cares about what us regular customers think about their restaurant!
And BTW, did you get the "link" tie-in….the place is called, The Linkery! This Internet stuff is pretty interesting, ain’t it?
Have a Great Weekend!