something old & something new

quang with bill & keila
veg soup.. best ever.
beef & shrimp bun
wontons w.red pork
beef & egg roll bun

potluck @ church -
sauerkraut & carrot salad (w.cilantro)
2 cottage cheese loaves
BEETS !!!
fruity salads

sarah & jeremy's gummables
tofu salad, pudding galore, deviled eggs, olives (good one from byerlys), hummus, prunes, spinach/artichoke dip

saffron on tasting week - with jon<3
awesome, awesome soup.

Eggplant Dip + Hummus

Wine Flight along side

Jersusalem Artichoke Soup
smoked salmon and sumac

Duck Breast
saffron couscous, apricots and pistachios

Coconut & Almond Cake
blood orange-hibiscus sorbet

nice beans

valentine's day is a perfect day to show the world how much you love a deal.

jon & i returned to one of our fav's.. blue nile. b1g1 free MPR + b1g1 free drinks..yay.

this time we ordered differently. i'd written down on this handy blogger what foods we actually liked the best.. so we tried to order from the MENU. :-o. Successfully members of the clean plate club.. the only thing we needed was bigger fava beans.. but we'll deal as we're both plenty gassy today ;)

ordered: berberre lamb, side of fava. green beans, side of red lentils. came w.spicy sauce + yogurt.. and lots of bread. it was AWESOME, as always.

jon: Cabernet (blech), reann: white zin (it was pink.. in honor of valentine's day, i'm not so sure.. but it tasted good = sugar!)

jon made me cake(s) for a present. white cake from scratch. it is NOT easy. not not not at all. jon is awesome and he did it, there was drama, he did it again. we had a taste off, oil won, drama over.

No meat

Friday night we went to the SLP Tavern for bowling. I had some good sauerkraut pizza. Jon had the craziest filet o fish I have ever seen. Crazy as in large.. on big bread. Lots of fish, too.

It was fun.

don't be pesticized

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speak your mind

someone might be listening.. somewhere out there.

so i went to liberty's randomly on friday, feb 1st because it was a new month & their flavor calendar wasn't listed on their website (plus i was on the way back from the lib). i knew pumpkin cheesecake, eggnog, and SF banana all had a chance of being in the freezer.

what i did NOT know.. is that vicki (owner) had read my emails & postings on chowhound so vigilantly. so.. perusing the cooler, trying to pick which 2/ 3 i should get, i look @ the board. well, well.. it's BIRTHDAY CAKE.. with that, i drop the pints... and nearly pass out. vicki says 'what's wrong?'.. i mouth 'that's my favorite' .. to which she replies 'are you reann?' ..

anywho. we talk for a while, she is lovely, shows me the menu for the month. feb 1: birthday cake, feb 2: cinnamon roll "for ReAnn" .. verbatim. i am almost crying i'm laughing so hard. what a lovely lady.

i order birthday cake kid size (i am NOT hungry at ALllllllllll), which she gives me for free.

i am so trying to hold it back from jon because i wanted to suprise him w.cinnamon roll on saturday, but we were quite booked up with our plans, so i had to bust out my menu. he freaked, too. quite fun.

we went the next day & got a medium.. again, not hungry.. so brought it home. ate it w.green tea cake in engage-a-versary style.

sunday jon was in WI, so i went to get the leftover pints. ended up with quarts of birthday cake & cinnamon roll. i have spent $13 on worse things.

colassal cafe: feb 2, 2008
it was a solid engage-a-versary pick. next brunch.. the independent? or lucia's..?

apple/brie/walnut pancake - okay.. this was awesome. i might get it again, or at least figure out how to make a yeasty pancake. my only trouble is that i'm not in love with brie nor walnuts. maybe they'll make me a pancake with apples and whatever the heck honey syrup they put on top. yum.

mole/chorizo/egg/bean/potato burrito thingy. the inside of this was awesome. i wanted to love it so much.. thing is, i don't really love red mole sauce. it was good, but i don't love it. i liked the parts w.out mole better. good salsa?!

good coffee.. really, it was nice tasting. they even gave me skim.

randomly sampled: trader joe's wintery blend coffee is good. jamaican blue mtn coffee that "everyone loves" at whole foods.. notsomuch.

convinced.

jeremy made mexican food for us on tuesday. it was really nice. i got to eat lots of marshmallows & green tea ice cream. it made me forget it was 900 below outside.

thursday i convinced my dad & jon to order the tacos al pastor @ la mixteca (it wasn't that hard). they also LOVED it.. yay. i had the ceviche. i like that.

tonight is coffman (and potential wings.. erg).

i guess tomorrow we're going out for breakfast. i may go to TNT. there is food tasting at whole foods, and lack of gluten at F&N.

happy feb.