10 posts tagged “food”
Grey day leads to nesting leads to an evening split between Real Foods and my kitchen.
In progress: spinich + orange + tomato + raw goat cheese salad w/ raspberry vinaigrette.
What is your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table?
Submitted by Kadeeae.
Maple sugar pie. I learned to make it a few years ago when a friend asked me to bring a traditional Canadian Thanksgiving dish to an American Thanksgiving dinner (held in the UK, natch). (I also made poutine. Which isn't a traditional Thanksgiving food. But perhaps it should be.)
Back when I lived in Seattle I discovered that Tim's Cascade Style Wasabi potato chips work as a near-instant cure anytime I find myself feeling nauseous. (Like, say, after being in the Space Needle on a windy day. What can I say, I have sensitive inner ears.) They're hard to find down here, so for the past year I've been falling back on other spicy chip flavours. though they've never been able to quite do the trick.
On the train home today I was struck by an almost overwhelming wave of nausea (reading on my phone + horrible smell). I went to the pharmacy after I got home hoping to find...something, anything...that would make me feel better. And found these:
Sold.
A few chips into the bag and I'm feeling much, much better. The only downside is that they're a whole lot stronger than the Tim's chips so the trade-off is less nausea, more tears.
I've recently become a convert to fresh-ground-nothing-but-peanuts-added peanut butter that I grind myself at Real Foods every weekend (okay...well...I flip the switch on the grinding machine myself). The other day, I discovered that the Whole Foods on 4th has an almond grinder. Wow. Nothing says (and tastes like) healthy-but-decadent breakfast like fresh ground almond butter on whole wheat English muffins.
(Another amazing food combination I’ve discovered – goat cheese and honeycomb. Trust me on this.)
I know, I know, I said no more book purchases after Powell's until I made progress on my book queue. But, um, oops:
To be fair, I'd have bought these at Powells had they not been too bulky to fit in my carry-on bag. And, they'll be good catalysts for some other projects I want to take on over the summer (more photography, more cooking). And, the longer my book queue grows, the easier it will be to resist a £75 subscription to Monocle Magazine. (So. Very. Tempting.) But now, really, no more books. (I reserve the right to suspend this when I go to Seattle next month. I'm already salivating at the thought of a book-buying-bender at Bailey/Coy.)
Bonfire! Sadly, shut down by the beach police early on as it wasn't in a designated fire pit.
Karaoke! Bonfire-alternative.
Reverie! Because a weekend isn't a weekend without time spent at Reverie.
Blue Bottle! I picked up some beans for good-coffee-starved Richard. And a latte for ristretto-starved me. (Blue Bottle is the Vivace of San Francisco, but without the attitude.)
Grey V-Neck T! From RAG co-op.
Oysters! At Yabbies in Russian Hill. Decent seafood, horrible service. I'll stick to EOS.
Audium! 50s experimental sound art. Probably more impressive before the days of THX and home-7.1 surround systems.
City Hall! The walk down Van Ness is much more pleasant at night.
Sunflowers! My bodega has replaced their buckets of cala lilys with buckets of sunflowers. Summer's here.
Not pictured:
- Scrubbing the bathroom to Northern State.
- Buying a new point-and-shoot digital camera. (Because I'm still torn between the SD900 and SD800 IS).
- Dinner w/ the cool upstairs neighbours. (Because it hasn't happened yet.)
I wonder if this was what that US Customs officer was looking for when he asked to inspect the case of cereal I was bringing back from Vancouver.
Oops. I could have sworn I'd read a review of Bourbon & Branch's food menu. Ha. It's a good thing I figured out that they don't have a kitchen before I arrived ravenous, prepared for a spread. I'm used to the Washington law that says bars must serve food. (Bleu Bistro after midnight: "Here, have a box of Snackwells.")
Hmm...now I have to plan dinner...pasta or Gardenburger?
It's been a good couple of days for my palate:
- Friday -- Dinner at EOS. More wine at The Library. A nightcap at The Redwood Room.
- Saturday -- Discovered "Drunk Goat" cheese. Highly recommended. Available at a Bay Area cheese shop near you. I suspect it will be on the menu at my next "wine and grilled cheese" party.
- Sunday -- Cookies and cream gelato from that place in Noe Valley. It was 25C out and my lips were sun-burnt. I had no choice, it was medicinal.
- Monday -- An excellent grilled vegetable, pesto and feta sandwich in South Park. Wing and beer night with my neighbours. (Sadly, it was discovered that my new favourite beer, whose name I don't know, doesn't seem to be sold anywhere but at Kezar.)
- Tomorrow -- Plans for
dinner(see two posts up) drinks at Bourbon and Branch. I've heard good things. My "no scotch" rule will likely be relaxed for the evening.
