Breakfast Beat

I just found out yesterday that Amish Market (a local ~high end supermarket and lunch counter) has a continental breakfast buffet from 7 to 11 AM for $4.99 a pound. It's great! Yesterday, I got bacon and sausage and french toast and a crepe from the buffet and a banana on the side for $3.07. Today, I got bacon, sausage, french toast, caramelized bananas with strawberries, and a hash brown for $3.11. Koh got sausage, a hash brown, a veggie omelette, and a brioche. Also, you get free butter and crap, and their jellies include an extremely attractive apple butter option. Hooray! They also have two kinds of oatmeal.

Fair Food!

Here's what I ate at the Los Angeles County Fair:
1 hot dog with mustard and ketchup.
A few chili cheese fries.
1 1/2 deep-fried Oreos. These are fine. As ACJ pointed out, you don't like them but you want to keep eating them. jee suggested they may have been Hydrox, which I doubt since it would expose the seller to enormous legal liability.
I wanted to get some ice cream from the ice cream place near the cow pen for obvious logical reasons but the line was too long.
1 root beer float.
1 baked potato with chili.
1 iced tea.

Swedish Feast!

This week I went to the home of my friends Brian and Malin. Malin is Swedish and she made a delicious Swedish feast:
Meatballs (I ate 12, they were small)
Boiled potatoes (3)
Gravy (seemed like butter, cream and a few spices)
Green beans
Pickles (Swedish people love pickles)

Restaurant Round-up

Peter Luger's - seemed nice, I had a good sandwich. I think my lunchmates may have enjoyed it even more than I did, but I definitely liked it.

Planet Hollywood - Sucks so much!

Mars 2112 - Not as bad as Planet Hollywood, but does not have much to recommend it.

The Jekyll and Hyde Club - I love this place! We had a totally fun time here! It really shames other theme restaurant by being so super-fun in ways that other lame theme restaurants can only dream of. Love this place! Didn't have any food, I'm not sure how the food is.

The Horrible Truth!

The Subway near my new office sucks!

They always mangle the bread. They use a tiny little knife to cut it, and I'm not even sure that it's a bread knife. They can't cut the bread in halves well, they always flatten the bread when they're cutting a loaf into a 6" piece. They can't put the ingredients on right - I get vegetables spilling out of the end, I got a meatball marinara with two meatballs stuck squeezed in together on one end crosswise rather than lengthwise, and so consequently I had a big chunk of meatball-less bread. Sometimes the ingredients are all slid over to the bottom or top half of the roll, and so the bread closes in an awkward extruded "J" shape that is unpleasant and difficult to eat. They don't seem to care about what they're doing, and it shows with their lousy, lackluster sandwiches.

Subway near my new office, boo to you!

Lunch, 2006-9-18

Some fried shrimp, two stuffed grape leaves, two cheese pies, some caesar salad, some guacamole, and some tilapia.

This is the first meal I've had in weeks that was not pizza, hot and sour soup, and a modest cheese course.

Guest Reporter: Nancy Pelosi

"Many Hill watchers wonder how the sixty-six-year-old Pelosi can toil so hard while remaining immaculately dressed and consistently perky. One answer: massive consumption of high-quality chocolate."
- hattip: The Atlantic.

Yesterday

Breakfast-Brunch:
Blueberry muffin
OJ

1 packet Maruchan ramen, beef flavor
Some dark chocolate

Grand Central Market:
1 chicken taco
Horchada
1 scoop coffee ice cream*

Village Pizza:
2 slices pepperoni pizza
Iced tea*

"Goodnight and Good Luck":
Orangina

* Tea and coffee ice cream are both permitted in White September despite their caffeine content.

September 2, 2006

Breakfast:
Blueberries and Raspberries

Guava Kombucha Tea

Lunch:
Leftover zucchini lasagne

Dinner:
Raw Burrito from Erewhon. Not very good.

Farmers Market:
Miller Lite
Fat Tire

DC's:
Gin and Tonic

Soop Sok:
Lemon Soju

September 1, 2006

Breakfast:
Nectarine
Trilogy Kombucha Tea

Lunch:
Leftover Taco

Snack:
Pasta sauce and Pesto on 2 kinds of raw cracker/bread (The flax crackers were much better)

2 cups coffee, black, at Insomnia Cafe

SC's:
2-3 glasses white wine

Dinner:
Leftover zucchini lasagne

SC's:
1 gin and tonic
more white wine

Little Bar:
Soju Margarita
Some of DC's beer (Great White?)

Danger's:
A little bit of beer

From the Field!

Fact: Having grown enamored of the woman in the Jana water ads, I decided to try out the 1st place winner at the 2005 Paris Aqua Expo. It proved unremarkable!

Fact: I purchased a package of Armour's new honey flavoured brown and serve sausages. They'll never improve on the original recipe!

Intoxicant-Free September!

Today is the first day of what I hope to make a month free of alchohol and caffeinated beverages. I have to allow the caffeine in chocolate, however, which keeps this from being full-on Mormonism.

Breakfast:
OJ
Tiger Milk bar
Raisins
3 baby carrots
Orangina

Orangina will be my new coffee.

Lunch from Wood Ranch:
Babyback ribs
Baked beans
Garlic roll

So far I'm feeling great.

August 31, 2006

Breakfast:
Smoothie containing frozen blueberries, raspberries, banana. Plus: dried goji berries, ground flax seed, spirulina powder, and hemp protein powder. This smoothie was brown.

A 1oz shot of wheatgrass from Robek's*

Lunch:
Leftover "taco" from yesterday.

Snack:
A carob quinoa bar from Erewhon. This was gross.

1 cup coffee**, black. From Insomnia cafe.

Dinner:
Zucchini Lasagne. A variation from the Rawvolution cookbook recipe. Strips of zucchini (I used green and yellow), topped with a sauce made up of: tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, garlic, onion, red bell pepper, mushrooms (I used cremini), sunflower seeds, lemon juice, nama shoyu, fresh basil, and fresh oregano. This was actually quite good.

*One summer in high school I worked at a juice bar called Zuka Juice (later purchased by Jamba Juice.) For our "initiation" we were forced to drink a shot of wheatgrass, if that gives you any indication of how pleasant that substance is to drink.


**I am still figuring out the rules on what's allowed and what's not. I'm pretty sure the coffee I had was not, but some raw food restaurants offer hot coffee, so I'm letting it slide for now.