Sauce Boss “Live at the Green Parrot” CD, Green Curry, and Robert Is Here

ORDER YOURS HERE.  You’re gonna want one cause it’s HOT!  A live show with a gumbo-slinging swagger that only the Sauce Boss can deliver. After a lifetime of music, travel, and food, over a million miles on the road, over 180,000 bowls of gumbo served for free, thousands of gigs, tons of hot sauce, over a hundred original songs on thirteen albums, scores of free concerts at homeless shelters and soup kitchens, after all this   . . . it’s time for a live album. Recorded in November 2011 in Key West, Florida, “Live at the Green Parrot” is definitive Sauce Boss. It’s edgy, slide guitar, rockin blues grooves, with a large side of fun in the Sauce Boss tradition.  These songs come straight out of the life of a true character, adventurer, raconteur, and poet.  Come and get it.

Sauce Boss- Guitar & Vocals
John Hart – Guitar
Jassen Wilber – Bass
Justin Headley – Drums

UPCOMING SHOWS  Tallahassee, Pensacola Beach, Tampa (CD Release Party at Skippers), Sanford, Leesburg, Orange Beach, Mobile, Ashland, VA, and D.C.

Green Curry With Vegetables
Here’s a really healthy and hearty meal that’s also really easy to make.
Coconut water
Bok choy
Green beans
Mushrooms
Grilled Tofu
Onions
1 heaping tbls green curry paste
1/4 cup of Peanut butter
2 tbs Liquid Summer Hot Sauce
1 tbs honey
Brown rice

Cut up all the veggies and saute in 1/2 cup of coconut water in a wok. Add tofu.
Sauce: Mix peanut butter with a little coconut water, honey,  Liquid Summer, and curry paste
Add the sauce to the veggie mixture and simmer for a minute or so. Serve over brown rice.

Robert Is Here
19200 SW 34th St. Homestead, FL 33034
fresh@robertishere.com
305-246-1592
8 AM to 7 PM
Closed Sept. and Oct.

When Robert was six years old, his father set him down with some cucumbers to sell by the side of the road. Nobody bought.  So the next day he put a sign on the table that said, “Robert Is Here”.  Within a few hours, the cukes were gone.  Fast forward to 2012 and Robert is still selling cucumbers at the road side stand in Homestead, Florida.  However since that time way back when, Robert Is Here has blossomed into an incredible cornucopia of a fruit  market. On yer way to key west you’d do yerself a favor by stopping and loading up on papayas, passion fruit, mangos, jack fruit, sopodilla, bananas, oranges, guavas, sapote, a plethora of tropical fruit not found in key west. They have cold coconuts that they drill a hole and stick a straw in for a refreshing healthful beverage. These guys just love sharing good food with folks. So on the way to the keys, I stop to see what’s up at Robert Is Here.

CD Release Parties, Grouper Amandine a la Sauce Boss, AND…the World’s Best Chili Dog (maybe)

That’s right! Hot N Heavy is coming soon. If you want to be one of the first to get yours, you can pre-order it at our new SAUCE BOSS STORE. You can also pre-order our newest sauce: Hot and Heavy Peach Sauce. We have the recipe for a good time DOWN.  Yer not gonna believe how gooood this stuff is.  Our official release is March 23rd, but for our special  friends, we’re sneaking a few discs and bottles for early release parties.  Here’s where we will be in the next few weeks. Tallahassee, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Pensacola, Pelham GA, Coral Gables, and Melbourne.If you can’t make any of our Florida  and Georgia shows, you can listen to a live Sauce Boss show this Saturday night (3/6/10) at the BBC (that’s the Bradfordville Blues Club). Hank 99 FM is going to be broadcasting it live over the air and on the internet from 10:00pm to 11:30 pm.

Grouper Amandine a la Sauce Boss
1 pound grouper filet
4 Tbs olive oil
1/2  pound almonds chopped
2 Tbs mustard
2 Tbs Liquid Summer Hot Sauce
1 Tbs honey
Grease a cast iron frying pan with half of the olive oil
Slop the fish around on both sides coating it with the oil
Bake at 350 degrees
Mix remaining ingredients
When the fish is almost done, put the almond mixture on top of the fish and finish it off in the oven.
Serve with lemon

LAFAYETTE CONEY ISLAND
118 W Lafayette Blvd  Detroit, MI 48226 (313) 964-8198

“Coney Island hot dog (also Coney Dog or Coney) refers to a hot dog made of beef with casing, topped with an all meat chili, diced onion and yellow mustard.  The variety is a fixture in Detroit Michigan, served there and in the “heartland” states of the American Midwest.  Despite the name, the preparation style has little direct association with Coney Island itself beyond recognition of the birthplace of the original hot dog… Coney Islands generally offer a choice of either Flint or Detroit style coney dogs.  Flint style is characterized by a dry chili more similar to ground beef than chili, while Detroit style is more soupy, heavy with chili and cumin powders.” So says the oracle, Wikipedia.

Late Nite Coney Customers

There is a debate raging as to which style and indeed, which Coney Island restaurant is the best.  In 1917, Gust Keros and his brother established the American Coney Island in Detroit.  Soon after they opened, an argument ensued, and they split the restaurant, starting a culinary feud which has lasted  the better part of a century. To this day, the Lafayette Coney Island and The American Coney Island stand in resolute defiance of one another, right next door, dishing out what each considers the best chili dog in the world.

I have eaten the Flint and  Detroit varieties, and I must say the slop, goop, mish mash, hot dawg soup of Detroit has my vote.  It’s like playin slide guitar.  You don’t want it to be too clean, to clear, too pristine. You need the proper amount of extortion in the amp. You want slop. You want the notes to blend together, like cane syrup and butter on a big stack of hoe cakes.  It’s this blending that galvanizes the rich overtones. Pure sound.  So it is with coney dogs.  I mean it’s three in the morning after a balls to the walls jamming set at the Greektown Casino.  Any body want a salad?  I don’t think so.

Couple o' coney dogs

Virginia, DC, AND Florida, The Other Whartons on TV, Boss Ganouj, Oysters in Pensacola.

Photo : Jim McKinley

Ashland, VA, and Washington DC.  Then back to Florida – St. Pete with Dr. John, key west for the “Meeting of the Minds”, and Starke at Cowboys.

DAUGHTERS OF WHARTON TAKE OVER TV

Annie Wharton on Project Runway

Number one daughter, Annie was just on Project Runway modeling her redesigned wedding dress which won the design challenge of the week.  She was baaaad.    Last blog I mentioned number two daughter, Mary, kickin ass at the Toronto film fest with her Joan Baez biopic.  Those Wharton girls are sooo…TV.

Mary and Joan Baez

NEW ALBUM SOON COME

The recording is almost done.  Now to mix and master for a 2010 release.  The album is funky, gospel, blues, with some zydeco, and a heapin helpin of Slide guitar.   Featured on the CD will be Justin Headley, drums, Robert “Freightrain” Parker, bass, and also Biscuit Miller on bass. This is the funkiest and groovinest yet.  Stay tuned for the good tunes.

BOSSA GANOUJ

Here’s my own slant to Baba Ganouj.  Instead of tahini, I use home made almond butter and also a little bit of my Liquid Summer Hot Sauce
2 Cups almonds
3 or four Tbs olive oil
Juice of one lemon
Two Tbs Liquid Summer Hot Sauce (With the holidaze upon us, do NOT forget to order yours HERE)
2 one Lb. eggplants
4 Cloves garlic finely minced
Pita bread for dipping

Cut eggplants in half and place on a greased cookie sheet (cut side down) for 45 min at 375 degrees.  Grind almonds with blender.  Put powdered almonds into a food processor and add olive oil until the mixture is the consistency of humus.  In a bowl, mix almond butter, lemon juice, garlic, and Liquid Summer.  Scoop out the eggplant and add it to the mixture.  Mix well

Bossa Ganouj

MARINA OYSTER BARN

505 BAYOU BLVD. PENSACOLA, FL 850-433-0511

The little disclaimer on the take out menu gives you an idea of what goes on at the oyster barn.  “When we are filled to capacity, we regret that we will not be able to fill take out orders.”  Situated on Bayou Texar since 1969, the Rooks Family Seafood Restaurant has been filled to capacity a lot of the time, dishing out real fresh seafood.  The service is great, the food cooked to perfection, the ambience, casual as a marina setting can be.  $6.50 gets you a mullet sandwich with fries or slaw.  And Dale’s Special is cole slaw, cheese, and grilled onions on any sandwich for half a buck.  In addition to the regular seafood dishes, the lunch specials (from five to eight dollars) include chicken and dumplins.  And the hush puppies are fabulous.  I can’t stand it.  Once in a while, I must have a hush puppy. Of course…don’t forget about the fresh shucked oysters!
Tuesday – Thursday 11 am – 8:30 pm
Friday & Saturday 11 am – 9 pm
Sunday – 11 am – 2 pm

NORTHEAST TOUR, H & H RESTAURANT, OVER THE TOP SALMON SALSA WITH RED ROE

MEGAROCK R & B FEST in DuBois, PA,  BLUES FEST INTERNATIONAL in London and Windsor, Ontario. Club dates in Lorain, OH, Sharon, PA, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY. “Ride Sally, Ride!”

H & H RESTAURANT, MACON GA

In Macon Georgia there lives a legend. Mama Weeze.  In the hey day of Capricorn Records, the likes of Duane and Greg, Otis, and virtually everybody in rock and roll came to the H & H Restaurant.  Mama Weeze made sure that those boys had a great meal of soul food under their belts before returning to the studio.  Before they hit the road, Mama Weeze made sure they were well fortified. Now if you want the real deal with a heapin helping of rock ‘n roll history, the H & H is required reading.  Check out the pictures on the wall, the ambience, the vibe, the food. And a true spirit of hospitality like nowhere else.

Here’s the veggie plate with lima beans, okra and tomatoes, turnip greens and squash casserole–definitely comfort food and when we left, it was ALL gone.

RED ROE WITH SALMON, MANGO AND SALSA
Here’s a totally over the top recipe for those who love seafood.
One lb. of red mullet roe
Filet of Salmon
4 or 5 mangos cut up with a splash of Liquid Summer and Grande Marnier.
Salsa made with Tomatoes, onions, cilantro, jalapeno peppers, Liquid Summer Hot Sauce
Put the filet in a large frying pan.  Place the mangos and roe around the fish.  Top with the salsa and bake.