Jalapen-NO

Why don't the Auntie Anne's in my area (around the Arsenal of Democracy HQ) have the jalapeño pretzels? They are the best pretzel Auntie Anne's makes.

Of course, my Eastern European heritage is against making savory foods sweet. They only sell the almond, sesame, and raisin pretzels here. I consider raisin pretzels almost as much a blasphemy against pretzels as the raisin bagel (do not get me started about blueberry bagels).

Pineapeño

Today's dinner was fish, which means that the Sherbs was nowhere nearby. I liked it anyway. It was tilapia, baked with pepper, served over rice with a pineapple and jalapeño relish and a honey and balsalmic vinegar sauce.

It was delicious, but I don't know how it would work without some dead animal protein, to which the Sherbs is opposed.

A short search of the Food Network recipe library (you can add it to your Mozilla search tab on this page) reveals that the only pineapple and jalapeño recipe they have is Emeril's "Pineapple Jalapeño Sorbet." And people wonder why I always change the channel when Mr. Lagasse is on.

Seriously, though, the sorbet has a perverse fascination for me. Spicy cold dessert sounds like it shouldn't work, but it just might. Maybe if the sorbet was mixed with some limoncello (lemon would be a complementary citrus flavor to the pineapple), which would make it a dessert which is cold, spicy, and alcoholic, then you'd be talking.

(how to I "peño" everything? HTML special characters, my friend.)