Dinner

Leftover asian market steak, sliced and stuffed with mushrooms, spinach, pinenuts and blue cheese, served with sweet potatoes topped with bacon and molasses (pan fried in the bacon fat, of course). Don't be fooled though, the background bacon you see here was for Chris's separate bacon-fried-dumpling and potatoes dish (unpictured). Also present was a loaf of chocolate bread with embedded dried cherries bread from Whole Foods. I realized that I accidentally flipped the high ISO switch on my camera a week or so ago and never noticed, so all of my pictures recently have been on on the unfortunate side in terms of color saturation. But i can deal.

KNIFE ACTION MINUS BREAD ACTION

Omelette

Four egg omelet that through serendipity turned into this glorious fat egg-pankcake sitting atop a throne of mixed sausages and various vegetables. Garnished with some sad basil and two cherry tomatoes. A rediscovery of a marvelous dinner between me and chris one night back when we had time for such endeavors. And groceries. I need to post more food, I have so many pictures to share.

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Summer Food

The rest of what we were eating before late studio nights:

The Return of Sushi Night
I missed first sushi night, but i heard there was a lot of sushi involved. There was still a lot leftover this time as well, as we had a hard time conquering Mt.Sushi. Kayla, head sushi chef, got really nice sashimi tuna cuts from whole foods, which i will probably never taste again. We ended up with three or four different rolls, each involving tuna or spicy tuna in some variation with avocado. There was an extreme miso soup...lots of vegetables and bits and bops, a hearty American take on miso soup, that was very warming. Loose leaf green tea, and a cabbage salad (for dessert?). As an appetizer with the miso, I also made some tsukemono for the first time, a lightly pickled cucumber dish that I was pretty happy with. The major tragedy of the night was the lack of wasabi, and the fact that we have no normal soy sauce in our house (a problem that still needs to be remedied). Only weird smokey soy sauce from New Asian Market and some horrible mushroom soy sauce. An awkward combination of sriracha and amino (funny soy sauce substitute) sort of worked, but I would have preferred my kikoman.

miso pot

miso bowl

also, a cat was involved

Roast Chicken
Picked up a roast chicken from whole foods, served with potato leek soup made from scratch by jeremy and chris, soup masters. There was also lots of gravy. I only got before and after pictures of the chicken though, so you'll have to use your imagination. The remants of the chicken served as a great broth the next day for chicken noodle soup from scratch, involving homemade noodles via chris. Fat, fat, funny, delicious, noodles.


Taco Snack
I dont even really remember what was in these, but they were delicious and jeremy and i ate 4 or 5 each, followed by half a burrito with the remaining mix. Perfect with some lime, and a good excuse to get rid of mediocre tortillas.

food from the summer

ANTIQUERIA DE OAXACA
5200 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles

One of my favorite places to eat this summer, conveniently located right by my work. I wish I had more of an excuse to eat there, but no one would ever drive into the city so I'd always end up just grabbing something for myself on the way home. Below is the appetizer plate #2(for two, although it's easily enough for four), and has everything that you would ever want. Memelitas, deliciously fat and grilled corn cakes, served with tsajo (grilled beef), the best quesadilla i think i've ever had, a chile relleno, fried pork skin, all served with this amazing stringy oaxacan cheese, a black bean sauce, and a guacamole that they do not skimp out on (even with everything they give you to put it on, I've never actually ran out of it).

I'm not sure if it's "proper" to combine it all, but it doesn't really matter, because together it makes the best sopes i've had since I was a kid. Okay well, it's probably the only sopes I've had since I was a kid and we tragically moved away from our neighbors/landlords, this Mexican couple who used to cook the most delicious food. Why are sopes so delicious, yet so hard to find? Together it all just makes a super delicious corn-cake cocktail of meat, cheese, and nostalgia, and I can't wait to go back more when I return for the winter. Also worthy of being mentioned, they have one of the best horchatas i've ever had, served with bits of melon and almonds inside, if I'm remembering correctly, something excitingly new and tasty to me. I also owe a big thanks to Allyn, who enlightened me to look into los angeles oaxacan restaurants. Long story short, friends of the valley, it is well worth the 20-minute drive to melrose to eat this, so get on it.

sooo goood i missss you

FISHLIPS SUSHI TRUCK
somewhere around

I know the idea of sushi from a truck is something really unappealing, but the Fishlips sushi truck has some pretty good sushi, considering its coming out a truck. Just look at how cute their little temari sushi balls are! Everything I tasted from there was fresh and delicious, and I have no complaints about it. What really caught my eye on the menu was the tropical salmon roll (avocado, cucumber, asparagus, kaiware, yama-gobo, bell pepper, salmon, lemon, mango, ponzu sauce), but they were all out of it when we got there (the downside of serving out of a truck), so I settled for the shrimp caterpillar roll instead. Guy and Jake got these little sets that were a really good value (temari sushi + california/spicy/or crunchy roll for $6-8). When we went they were parked right outside of CSUN, making it a convenient, quick, tasty and fairly cheap sushi expedition, so go find out where they are and get some sushi.

armenian sushi eater

Too much writing about food im hungry now, i think jeremy is making vegetable broth it smells delicious so im going to go.

Other Things

I'm back in providence, so come visit me. School doesnt start for a week and a half, which gives me lots of free time, something im really enjoying. i know i spent the entire summer sitting at home doing nothing, but i finally feel like im able to relax, while at home i just felt like i was wasting time. its really hot in my room right now, but once september is over ill be thankful for it.

I only went to disneyland three times this summer. but i did renew my annual pass. My new picture is wack. Our trips included lots of chimichanga eating, and jalapeno cheese pretzel eating. There was lots of eating other things, too, like clam chowder. But that was just alright (an unfortunately bad decision over the gumbo). Other things ingested include: churros, cobb salad(s), cold coffee, lots of hot coffee, apple pie, beef gumbo, pickles, and ice cream. I wanted to get a corn dog too, but never got around to it. I was also really bad at taking pictures of everything.

Perfect fried lunch in a perfect fake saloon

Some first-bite action

And as usual, our trip was pretttyyy crazy.

Im glad i got to go on Pinnochio before I left (which was clsoed for the first half of the summer). Also, crazy empty the last day we went, which was nice. 25-min wait for space mountain at noon, first ride of the day, a pretty rare occurence. New small world is pretty dope too, although I think it was already like that when I went in the spring...but whatever, go on it, sweet escape from the heat. Also, conveniently located right next to a churro stand.

Back home, I guess my city is on fire right now. Or at least the mountains next door to my city. Whatever, but it looked pretty sweet driving home at night, as you were merging onto the 210-W it almost looked like you were driving right into the depths of Mordor. I liked to play lightningbolt loudly and drive really fast and pretend something really big was about to happen whenever i drove home, which is something I'll actually miss. I will not, however, miss the freeways heading into the valley, where I probably spent the majority of my summer. In traffic. With no air conditioning.

But its getting better, somtehing like 45% contained now, which is a lot better than the 5% when I was leaving. Which is cool, because breathing kind of sucked when I was there.

Back to providence, our house was really gross, but is a lot better now, so I think Lily can visit. Like I said, im not really doing anything, which is really nice, I have a lot of small things I want to finish before school starts. We picked up an old four track tape recorder and this sweet old VHS camera from 2nd life yesterday--the camera is totally 90s pro-grade, so lots of good stuff will be coming from those. Also, live dance remixes of middle eastern casette tapes played through a bunch of analog effects(??) Picked up this really sweet childrens book called Chimpsey at Play today from some place on Wickenden I'd never been, really sweet illustrations by Dic Loscalzo. I love how they tell the story, too. A good excuse to learn how to use my new (old) scanner/printer/whatever i found at the end of last year. Apparently, it works.




But now that I'm back, i should hopefully update more often. Something about having no free time makes me want to update more than when I have absolutely nothing to do.

RR

This burger was beautiful. Do i regret eating it? Maybe. But it was still deliciotastic.

what summer is doing to me

breakfast:
eggs, toast, extra thick bacon, homemade fried hashbrowns

lunch:
8 oz. Burger Bar, turkey burger with sauteed mustard greens, bacon, cave-aged gruyere, horshradish dijonaise, onion, pickle, tomato, ketchup, some roasted baby broccoli and a side of french fries

dinner:
Carls Jr, western bacon cheeseburger, french fries

inbetween:
a whole bag of tortilla chips, way too much cheese sauce and salsa for one person

slices of homemade flourless chocolate cake and fruit cobbler, topped with two scoops vanilla ice cream


after finishing that second cheeseburger at 1:00 am and realizing I had bacon and some form of fried potatoes with every meal I havent been hungry since. i wish i had a camera on me and realized what i was doing to myself throughout the day so i could have documented it.

john and i woke up the next day and had whitecastle for breakfast and watched three movies in a row.

Best Midnight Snack Ever

Fresh albacore midnight sashimi, fills my belly oh so good

sorry ive been so bad at updating this, ive been really busy (read: lazy) lately, but i promise ill get back in the habit. but at least ive been better at updating the the tumblr than i usually am. so there's that.

7--11 Massacre

bad idea yes but i regret nothing

Full

THE DAY OF FREE FOOD
(or why today was awesome)

Breakfast: Free coffee from Carr Haus, and a mango that was almost too ripe

Lunch: Homemade sandwich on free raisin bread from Carr Haus's closing

Dinner: For our meeting in film narrative we were supposed to have a BBQ/danceoff. But because of inclement weather, it was rescheduled to pizza party. I was expecting just a few pizzas and some boring presentations. But rather, in addition to pizzas Gloria made a spectacular summer salad with raisins and grilled onions, a tray of red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting (each topped with fresh berries), and a bag (literally, a Nordstrom's bag) of some of the best homemade cookies ive had. They were Frankenstein cookies, basically a combination of every great cookie you could imagine. I love Gloria Masciarotte, ignore what anyone else says, take her class (aside from her cookie magic, she gives the most interesting lectures ive had).

Post Dinner: Free midnight breakfast at The Met, featuring the usual assortment of slightly-better-than-mediocre breakfast treats. And two cups of free coffee.

Now: I really should be working on finals rather than blogging about food, but I'd rather relive this delectable day for a few more moments before diving into a world of hex and pixels.

HOLY FUCK

Lunch Today

To strangely contrast what I put inside my body last night, I had a spectacular sandwich from Farmstead downtown for lunch today. I had never been to their downtown location, though I have always admired their sandwiches from afar. They definitely hold up to what I had imagined them to be. This was the Jabbon Beurre, a simple ham sandwich perfected. Perfectly toasted, fluffy french bread, ham, a sweet and creamy butter, cornichons, and dijon mustard. I have it step by step, so its like youre actually eating the sandwich. And to top it all of, it was a beautiful day outside, perfect weather, birds-a-chirpin. SPECTABADOOBULAR

WILL I SURVIVE

My recent obsession with large sandwiches appears to be more than just a fleeting love affair, as things like this usually go with me. Im seeing how far i can push these huge sandwiches before the met ladies start charging me for a bar plate instead of a side bowl. and then what comes after that? only time will tell. I made a beautiful sandwich on Thursday for consuming during a class screening. It was big enough that my met box wouldnt close, and i almost couldnt finish it. Unfortunately I hadn't predicted the problem of layers and layers of sweet, sweet crunchy onions combined with the quiet atmosphere of two documentary films. i will make note of this for future reference.

Unfortunately I couldnt get a photo of the thursday sandwich, but I do have some from my friday sandwich. And while this is a departure from my current fat sandwich obsession (hard to build a massive sandwich at Carr Haus, ill have to find a way around this eventually), i still dig a beautiful, simple sandwich. and man, just try to look at this sandwich and not salivate.

oh baby

and yes, i am writting about sandwiches on my saturday night. but its out of procrastination, not desperation. really.


(and maybe just a little bit of love, too.)

Dinner

A wonderful combination of everything I love at the moment:
-Spinach
-Cashews (salted)
-Pink Lady Apple
-Blueburrrries
-Honey Mustard Vinaigrette (just a drizzle)

Eaten while listening to The Wall, a flurry of enjoyment assaults the senses. I have to say, the Pink Lady almost takes place over my new found love, Goji Apples..but not quite.

Alex and Joseph made apple pie

So excited for Thanksgiving.

Pumpkin Pie

Gianna made pumpin pie earlier this year. I kind of helped. All hand made! We wanted to cook the seeds, but no one knew how to, so we cooked one batch in a pan and put the rest in the oven. The pan ones were better. Now that thanksgiving is coming up, I think more pies are called for.

Lily's Grilled Cheese

Lily's dual grilled cheeses. Mine (green) was cheddar, hers (yellow), i believe, was jarlsberg. I give it an A+.

A Tribute to Spike's: The Final Meals

Dylan's Dog
It was called like a '69 Chevy or something I think. Melted cheese, bacon, honey mustard. Not my favorite hot dog I've gotten from there, but still delicious (of course, how could it not be)

Joseph's Dog
Ill have to ask him what was on it, because i really have no recollection. From the picture, I would say bacon, mustard, and cheese, although im sure theres more to it than that because I know he didnt get what I got.

Lily's Dog

Hers was something like the Lone Ranger I think. It had BBQ sauce.

Its a shame i cant remember the names of everything everyone had, because im sure they were all clever puns of some sort, and i think this blog could use more puns. Oh well. And after looking at this blog, i have to say that this food is very yellow.