yesterday pierre & i went to the farmer's market that i haven't been to in 2 weeks so i was really excited...
we decided to have lunch there & since we were being rather indecisive we got a bit of everything
we got taquitos & a tamale plate from this vegan mexican stand & the combo plate from the thai stand (satay, veggie curry, chicken curry)
pierre took pictures of the food & we ate everything hahah
the black beans were really good...the tamale & taquitos didn't taste vegan...it was yum...
as for the thai...the curry was good but i think we both decided the satay plate would probably be better....
sunday we got brunch before i went to campus market
since he wanted to help me with my list we went to la note:)
it's so adorable
it's like really simple yummy food kicked up a bit but it's still casual & they probably make so much
because they just had to perfect those few recipes
anyways...it was wonderful
pierre had the two egg breakfast & he smeared his toast w/ raspberry jam that was on the table that i'm guessing was freshly made...
i really wanted the pancakes which is kinda rare for me but they sounded so good! (i'm surprised i didn't get the french toast or an omelette) i got the lemon gingerbread pancakes w/ poached pears & a side of scrambled eggs
the eggs were perfectly scrambled...i don't think i've had eggs that yum before...& the gingerbread was so yum! though there was too much of it..it was like eating a huge cake haha...& it was topped w/ poached pears & a blueberry compote ish stuff...
haha i had to finish the pancakes cuz i always told pierre to not waste his food so i was sooo stuffed but it was really good...i want to try to make pancakes now! we'll see...i want those grill/griddle things first
thank you pierre for sharing in yumminess w/ me:)
at campus market i saw a few things i never even knew existed: reese's cookies, jolly rancher rocks (a container of little jolly ranchers about the size of a smint), green tea soymilk, cooked rice that you can just microwave straight, etc
at work i was reading a cook's tour...
i read half a long time ago & i decided to pick it up again & gawd i remember why it was so entertaining...he's an amazing writer..he describes things so well & he completely speaks his mind...here are a few random quotes i thought were great...(i was reading the tokyo chapter)
"Their streets may be noisy, riotous Mobius strips of flashing lights, screaming jumbotrons, rank after rank of tightly constrained, identically dressed humanity (this year, all young women will dye their hair red!), their TV variety shows insanely hyperactive hosts, cloyingly cute, fluffy, pyschedelic-hued animal characters and doll-eyed cartoon heroines, their porn some of the ugliest, most brutal, and most disturbing on earth, their popular sexual obsessions may even make the German look well adjusted, and they may indeed teach their school children that all that nasty World War II nonsense never really happened, but from a cook's perspective, who cares? I was there to eat."
"They played and sang. One danced. You've seen bits of this kind of traditional Japanese dance - on television or in movies - and you've heard that high-pitched warbling, and you've thought, Jesus! It sounds like someone's torturing a cat! You just hadn't had enough sake to appreciate it. You weren't sitting in that timeless dining room, after a long bath, reflecting on those mountains. You hadn't eaten the mean I'd just enjoyed. The music was lovely, the slow-motion dance mesmerizing to watch. I felt like a feudal lord. I no longer cared about the silly clothes I was wearing. In fact, I felt cool. It was good to be the king. I was ready to order out the cavalry, burn castles, strategize with my warloards in the rock garden, think deep thoughts while I watched the winter cherry blossoms bloom."
plus any guy that talks about blowfish(fugu) in japan & brings up the simpsons' episode regarding blowfish is by default awesome
"As I understood it - from careful study of barroom speculation and an episode of The Simpsons - fugu meal was a game of chicken with all those delicious..."
& when i read this i thought of what you told me once jon thysell haha...so this one is for you
"...I pondered my environment. I stared out the window, all thoughts of the outside world quickly banished. There is nothing in my room, just that single flower, the paper walls, the wide expanse of floor. In no time, I felt my metabolism shift, my whole system undergoing some kind of temporary metamorphosis from neurotic, hyperactive, short attention-spanned New Yorker to a character in a Kurosawa samurai flick. The surroundings were identical. I felt I could sit there forever in my yukata motionless, doing nothing more involved than contemplating an orange."



