GrubGirl.

I finally got around to making Mrs. Eula J.’s easy macaroni & cheese recipe. It’s what’s gonna bring Velveeta back! Here’s my version of it.

Ingredients

• 1 regular package of Small Elbow Macaroni (I believe this is about 12 oz.)
• 1/2 lb of Velveeta Cheese (or the Lucerne knockoff…it’s a block of cheese product)
• 1 cup of milk
• 1 tablespoon of butter
• salt & pepper to taste
• 4 tablespoons Italian seasoned bread crumbs (optional)
• Louisiana hot sauce (optional)

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees

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Brenda’s French Soul Food
652 Polk St. (@ Eddy)
Closed Sundays

Beignets, grits, grillades…what is all that? Knowing a few share of southerners and one New Orleans native, I decided to take TBJ to check out what all the fuss was about with Brenda’s. I needed someone along who could do an authenticity check on this grub. What intrigued me about Brenda’s was that they say no entree is more than $10 there. Better not be for breakfast, ok??

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Hard Knox Cafe
2526 3rd St.
San Francisco, CA
415-648-3770
M-Sat 11 am - 9 pm
Sun 11 am - 5 pm

Located out in the boonies, I mean, Dogpatch district near Portrero Hill, lies a tasty soul food restaurant. It’s apparently known by a lot of locals as when Mr. Sanchez took me there for dinner, we narrowly beat the rush.

I can’t tell if this place is really a dive or a contrived dive, with the corrugated metal roofing used for wall paneling, and the various random signs nailed to that wall. Patrons are pretty diverse here, too. Clean cut yuppies, fashionably scruffy hipsters, and local residents all mix together among the vinyl-seated red booths and counter.

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I just got back from my first WordCamp users conference. This is the blogging system that I (and millions of others, apparently) use and I wanted to learn more about best practices on how to give my readers the content they want. (More on that later.) But I have to share what sold it for me. The value of the MEALS. For a mere $25 registration fee, this is what I got:

• 15 presentations across 2 days
• 2 breakfasts (lots of fresh pastries, good coffee, Peet’s tea!)
• Unlimited amounts of bottled water (Ok, volunteers, I hope you didn’t throw away any of those leftovers)

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