The Bad Santa Tour, Win Liquid Summer, Sauce Boss Swag Store, Sweet Potato Oranges, Hunan Chinese Restaurant,

White Mountain Blues Fest 2012

It’s that time again. December is hitting me from behind. Hard to believe another year has passed. But we have one more tour before we bid 2012 adieu.  We will be hitting all our old haunts on this tour. Here’s the scoop on our Baaaad Santa Tour.

Win a case of Liquid Summer Hot Sauce.
Here’s how to do it. Go to the Sauce Boss Facebook page and “Like” it.  Post your guess as to what my best recipe of the year is. If you are the first to guess it correctly, you will receive a case of Liquid Summer in time to stuff yer stocking. Contest ends Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 at 11:59 pm EST.

Now’s the perfect time to do yer holiday shopping at the Sauce Boss Store. Hot Sauce–you know you need a case of sauce for the holidaze. CDs– have you gotten “Live at the Green Parrot” yet? It’s live, live, live!  Check this deal out:   Your choice:  Any CD and any two bottles of sauce only $20.

Cornbread stuffing and  Sweet Potato Oranges

My Grandmother used to make these sweet potatoes in oranges. She would put a marshmallow on top of each of them and bake em.  This is my own version of “Mimi’s Sweet Potato Oranges”.

3 large sweet Potatoes
6 oranges
6 oz. soft tofu
Dash of each: Cinnamon, Allspice, Cloves
3 tbls maple syrup
Bake or wave the potatoes. Cut the oranges in half and juice them. Drink all but 1/2 cup of the juice. Mash the juice with the rest of the ingredients, and put the mixture in the orange shells. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 or 20 minutes.

Hunan Chinese Restaurant
386-328-0222 10 Eastgate Square Hwy 17 South East Palatka, FL 32131 Mon–Thurs: 11 am-9:30 pm Fri-Sat: 11am-10:30 pm Sun: 12 pm-9pm Lunch Special – 11 am-3 pm

Here’s a good one. I love it when I find a modest, out of the way place with true artisans doing what they love to do, and doing it soooo well. Our server, Linda was super attentive, and perfectly capable of making sure that our “special” dietary needs were met. Every dish from the kitchen was top notch and the portions were grand. Steamed dumplings. At most restaurants ya get six little teasers. I guess that’s why they call em appetizers. But at Hunan, there’s enough to fill up two people, never mind the entree. Every dish we had was more than enough. And the whole vibe and attitude was one of facilitating a great meal. It’s the difference between having a job, and doing your life’s work. The work that you were meant to do. The work that make’s you happy and prosperous in riches beyond money. Thank you Linda and you able partner in the kitchen for making our meal, our evening, and our lives better.

Special Meeting of the Minds Edition: Your key west Survival Kit.

OK, I hope all you parrotheads are ready to PARTY at the Parrot. We are coming to get ya. Here’s a little laid back post for all y’all. We are gearing up for the meeting of the minds. Making our way down through Florida and ending up in key west. So why don’t y’all come on down and join us. We hit Sanford, Sebastian,  and Delray Beach, with Planet Gumbo gigs in Lake Worth and Miami. Then on to the Green Parrot. Here’s the skinny on the gigs.

The perfect pick me up is the Liquid Summer Bloody Mary. No time to feel hung over when you have “minds” to meet.

LIQUID SUMMER MAKES THE BEST BLOODY MARY…EVER!
1 cup V-8
1 teaspoon LIQUID SUMMER HOT SAUCE
1 teaspoon Horseradish
Dash of celery salt
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons lemon juice
A couple shots of vodka
Mix ingredients together and pour into a glass of ice.
Fresh stalk of celery and olives

 

Show your sauciness with the Sauce Boss chef hat. The perfect attire for the food filled fun to be had in key west, or how bout Saturday nite in the boudoir. Just wear the hat with nothing else. It is guaranteed.  We are holding a bunch of them for key west shows. If you can’t make the show, buy em at the Sauce Boss Store.

After a night of heavy meeting of minds, the place to go is Sandy’s Cafe. Amazing cuban sandwiches, and my favorite, the media noche. Scrumpdillieshish!
1026 White Street  Key West, FL 33040 (305) 295-0159

Fla./Midwest Tour, Sauce Swag, Laughing Seed, Veggies For Dinner, Radio Airplay

Summertime is here. Let’s BBQ!

June’s a trip–New Smyrna Beach & Destin in Florida, then headed to the Midwest: Grove OK, St Louis Mo, Cedar Rapids IA, and Lima OH. Come see us!

New Sauce Boss Swag –Create your one of a kind Sauce Boss shirt with the new Poster Art at Cafe Press.  Tons of styles to choose from in sizes from infants to XXXXL.  Buttons and magnets and mugs and bags too.  And if you want to print a free Sauce Boss poster,  just go to the Sauce Boss Website and print your own.  Thanks so much to Eric Ilasenko for the use of his great photo!

Laughing Seed Café
40 Wall St. Asheville, NC  28801 828-252-3445
Open every day except Tuesday

Organic, Seasonal, Farm to Table Vegetarian Cuisine With an International Flair Locally sourced ingredients from area farms
I’ve eaten at the Laughing Seed twice, and both times I ordered the same thing.  The hemp seed garden burger.  Good, good, good. Nestled downtown in Ashville, NC, with a gaggle of boisterous entrepreneurial foodie types, cookin a wide variety of nouvelleish bill of fair, this one stands out for healthy lunch and dinner choices.

Hearty, healthy, and really tasty!

I’m really getting into the veggies!

Yep, it’s great.! Vegetables make me feel so much better.  I made sourdough banana rasin muffins, sweet potatoes, beans with mushrooms and onions, turnip greens, and a salad made with homegrown organic tomatoes, cukes, corn, olives stuffed with garlic, and capers. I then cut flowers for the table, and proceeded to CHOW DOWN!  It feels so good to create nice stuff.

Local organic produce, and fresh baked bread makes this vegetarian meal delicious.

“Live at the Green Parrot” got up to # 7 on the Florida Roots Music Report charts thanks to great radio promotion by Frank Roszak.  But PLEASE call up your local public radio station’s blues DJ and request “Killer Tone” by the Sauce Boss to help us keep getting more airplay.  Here’s a list of some of the blues shows all over the world that are already playing cuts from “Live “: BoomBoom Roadhouse Vinkovci, Croatia; 3Way FM Jusblooz, Warnambool, Australia;  All Blues 558, France; Alternate Root, ASFM, Netherlands; Bendeboue Blues 217, France; Blues Cafe, Stevens Point WI, Blues Deluxe (Syndicated on 107 Stations) US; Blues Doctor, Toronto, Canada; Blues Palace KMHD, Portland OR; Bluezy, Ridderkerk, The Netherlands;  CFRO, Vancouver, Canada; Chico News, Chico, CA; CHMR, St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada; CJRD, Bellerose, Canada; CKIA, Basseville QB Canada; CKUT, Montreal, Canada; Cross’ Blues, Gap, France; Dave’s Blues Mix Star FM, Australia; Emission Pulsions, Herserange, France;  Full Time Blues, Louisville KY;  GTFM Blues Wales, Pontypridd, UK; Hotel Du Blues CKUT, Montreal, Canada; Jazz and Blues Tour, Alphen aan de Rijn, The Netherlands; Jazz Jazz, Germany; KAFM, Grand Junction CO; KAOS, Olympia WA; KBRZ, Houston TX; KCOR, Kansas City MO; KFAI, Minneapolis MN; KFSR, Fresno CA; KINK FM, Portland OR; KIPO, Honolulu HI; KKJZ, Long Beach, CA; KMBH, Harlingen TX; KMCE, Willits CA; KMXT, Kodiak AK; KSPQ, White Plains MO; KTEP,El Paso TX; KTUH, Honolulu HI; KWCW, Walla Walla WA; KXCI, Tucson AZ; Maxwell St (Terremarine FM), Echillais, France; Midnight Flyer, Norman Davis; Mystery Train, Italy; Nashville Blues Society, Nashville TN; Radio Blues Intense, Correze France; Radio Canut, Lyon, France; Radio Carcomo, Madrid, Spain; Radio Coteaux, Saint-Blancard, France; Radio Holstebro, Holstebro, Denmark; Radio Quartz, Mons, Belgium; Rock Times, Germany; CKRL, Quebec, Canada; Smokestack Lightning (Syndicated on 10+ stations), Orlando FL; Sweet Home Chicago Radio 666, France; The World of Blues.com (April 11, 2012), Internet; WBGU, Bowling Green KY; WFPK Louisville KY; WCMC, Raleigh NC; WCNI, New London CT; WCVF, Fredonia, NY; WDPS, Dayton OH; WDST, Woodstock NY; WDVX, Knoxville TN; WFHB, Bloomington IN; WFPK, Fort Mill SC; WGLT, Normal IL; WHUS Storrs CT; Wildman Steve, Auburn AL; WKCC, Kankakee IL; WMEB, Orono, ME; WMRW, Warren VT; WMWV, Conway NH; WQLN Erie PA; WRFG, Atlanta GA; WUMA, Amherst MA; WWCU, Cullowhee, NC; WWNT, Dothan AL; WXCI, Danbury CT, XM Radio on BB’s Bluesville station

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“Live” Is Here! Free Download of “The Goog”, and Cafe Acadiana

Schedule
Tampa, Orlando, Leesburg, Orange Beach, Mobile,
Ashland, VA, D.C., and North Carolina.
Album release parties as we go. Please join us.

Aw right! Live is HERE! Get it NOW!

Today–April 24–is the official release date of  ”Live at the Green Parrot”.  Now available for your listening pleasure, you can hear it and order it on CDBaby and I-Tunes. You can also buy it at the Sauce Boss Store.  The early buzz have been great, beyond all expectations. It already made #8 in the Roots Music Charts in Florida. This one is over the top, out the box, down the street, and completely gonzo. I hope y’all enjoy it. Here are a few reviews:

http://www.muzikreviews.com/reviews.php?ID=2115
http://midwestrecord.com/MWR461.html
http://www.newsreview.com/chico/live-at-the-green-parrot/content?oid=576156

And from the German magazine, Jazz Jazz:
“…` he plays somewhere between JB Hutto, ZZ Top and Led Zeppelin. In combination, this is completely nuts unique and wonderful. So far one of the most remarkable live albums of 2012″ 

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 serving 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

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE:  call your favorite Blues DJ and request a cut from “Live at the Green Parrot”.  Time’s a wasting’! Betcha ya they have a copy already.  We just sent out over 600 CDs to radio stations all over the US and in Europe and South America.

THE GOOG IS OUT TO GETCHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s right, Brother. That’s right, Sister. Google knows what yer thinkin at this very moment. Just the fact that you’re reading this message could very well lead to a monstrous inconvenience. When the “powers that be”  find out that you ….well…I’m just sayin…just because I’m paranoid…What I mean is…When the Goog finds out what you are doing, yer liable to end up in hot water.
What are you doing, and why are you here?
What are you doing, and why are you here?
What are you doing, and why are you here?
What are you doing, and why are you here?

…

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CAFÉ ACADIA 337-942-7645 732 SOUTH UNION, OPELOUSAS, LA

You ride three or four hundred miles on two wheels, ya get hongry for some real food that will hang with ya for a good long while. Lucky me, I just happened to be passin through Opelousas round about dinner time and so I stopped for fuel for me and machine. For the real deal Acadian cuisine, this is the place. I tried the Catfish Gerald – grilled catfish covered in etoufee. Lunch specials are from around six to nine dollars.  There’s plenty to choose from on the menu. Steak, all manner of seafood, po-boys, burgers, salads, and the typical Cajun Creole bill of fare.  Etoufee on top of a ribeye will keep you going all afternoon, and into the evening. Hey Laba’!

Machine thirsty, stomach growling. Had to take a break from the road on a 700 mile ride. Recharge with some authentic Cajun cookin. SWEEEET!