Midnight Snack gets sorta fancy, sorta freakish

by Joe DiStefano, Posted Mar 28th 2007 @ 12:03AM

I've gotta warn everyone, this edition of Midnight Snack is a tad odd. I raided the fridge and my junk food cupboard. The base for this nosh is Tao Kae Noi, strips of crispy nori seaweed with a light chili pepper flavor. Just to calm your fears, rest assured that the pink stuff is not strawberry mousse, and the red stuff is not bits of cherry.

The pink rosettes are smoked salmon pate. I guess the seaweed just wasn't fishy enough for me. I tried a few pieces with just the pate at first. The smokiness and creaminess provided a pleasing counterpoint to the crisp fried seaweed. After eating a few pieces, I felt it needed something more and not just visually. After wracking my brain, I hit upon it a dollop of Sriracha sauce.

Aha, I exclaimed to myself as I bit into one I had created the perfect snack food. For you see, after all my fussing around I concocted something that tasted like an extra-spicy barbecue potato chip.

Filed Under: Food Oddities, Ingredients
Tags: cherries, fish, Midnight Snack, MidnightSnack, nori, oddities, potato chips, PotatoChips, salmon pate, SalmonPate, seaweed, spices, Sriracha, Tao Kae Noi, TaoKaeNoi, vegetables