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Pursuing quality gastronomical endeavors for the general ...

Last Update: Mon Jun 2 15:20:56 2008

+ oh noooooooo! RIP Bright Food Shop + One of my favorite foods is no longer available to me. The green posole at Bright Food Shop is no more, because Bright Food Shop [...] money -- in CHELSEA -- to pay their rent... then the rent is TOO FUCKING HIGH, assholes. Stupid greedy jerk landlords. I am sad.

+ o'coco's: stupid name, great chocolate taste + I was at the mall with my mother, and was overcome by hunger at one point -- and of course my mother has random bargain-store [...] I am a pushover for anything crunchy and crispy. And if i can jack up two pleasure centers at once for 90 calories, all the better.

+ sprouted brown rice from Trader Joe's + Last time I was at Trader Joe's, I saw they had several products made with sprouted brown rice. I'd recently been reading that [...] buy some regular uncooked sprouted brown rice, cook it, and whip up some seaweed-sesame-salt furikake of my own to mix into it. Yums.

+ wild willy's burgers + Tonight i was feeling a vague, unformed craving for sushi, but tallasiandude wasn't feeling that, but he was feeling like we should [...] and bun. The burgers actually remind me a lot of the burgers at Jubilee Juice in Chicago, big and flat and soft and fresh and

+ my life + and i do still love my cat, despite the time he clawed his way up my face then threw up on my hair at 7am. ...

+ stove ownership + Truer words were never spoke than in this xkcd comic . Though honestly, I consume so much of my bacon at greasy spoon diners, ...

+ bento distractions + I ran across Just Bento , the sister site to Just Hungry (which appears to be back in action and at full force, yay -- i was sad [...] sesame oil. a dash of soy sauce is ok too, if it needs salt. mix together, keep in fridge. good with japanese or korean dinners -

+ toby's penn cove mussels + This is the view from the sidewalk next to Toby's Tavern in Coupeville, WA on Whidbey Island. I stopped there with my [...] Mussels yummy. Beer good. Ogg like mussels and beer. Ogg not take very good low-light pictures. Internet forgive Ogg?

+ i love sushi, yes i do + extra special temporary contest, while you wait for me to get around to the actual post: can you identify the beer? the rectangular [...] lake and chatting with my new pal Joe the sushi chef who used to live in Vancouver when he first came to North America from Tokyo.

+ Scooter's burger-n-shake + Ay yi yi, tallasiandude points out to me that there are NO POSTS again. I SUCK. My profoundest apologies to all of you who actually [...] real fruit in it since I had to pick the blackberry seeds out of my teeth when i got home. Not bad for walking distance from home...

+ bouillabaisse & birthday cake + [ARGH. I forgot to post this b/c it had no photos. Lame. Posting now, a month late.] My Daddy's birthday is coming up, [...] bread from Whole Foods was particularly nice, because it has a finer, more uniform crumb than other kinds, which makes for a solid

+ Chicago: Hot Chocolate + We took C out to Hot Chocolate, since he'd never been there, and we love it, and J&D also love it, and it was just a lovefest all [...] ice cream and pretzel continues to be the perfect dessert. Be still my heart. Sorbets were amusing, since we ordered coconu

+ Chicago: Noodles at Marshall Field's + [this post has been waiting a MONTH for me to get off my keister and upload the pictures that go with it. sigh. better late than [...] and of white pepper, with fresh bits of bok choy and egg and carrot and shiitake and bean sprout, and more lovely moist soft pork.

+ kitchen notes: oden & ma po tofu + Just a couple of notes to self: - A while ago, i made some oden using the dried flavor packet you can buy at the Japanese [...] specified to drizzle sesame oil on each serving, but since i overdid it a little on the peanut oil, i skipped it. And yes, we ate it

+ bacon club eats + The delights at Bacon Club run the gamut from subtle scones to insane desserts to the bacon-wrapped classics. Everything was good, [...] cook equal parts B-grade maple syrup and bacon fat to the hard crack stage, mix with popcorn, crisped bacon pieces and pecans. Sh