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“your father asked me … if he could borrow my nasal irrigator…thinking he was being pro-active in fighting the cold that’s got him sniffling non-stop already…he just wanted to use the irrigator to inject jelly into the croissants he was baking. “
Posts published during April, 2008
Thursday night we went to Millennium for dinner. And yeah, it is all that and a bag of chips. Unfortunately, all the pics are crappy. It was all candle lit and I wasn’t going to be rude and use a flash.We started off with some fried potatoes that were absolutely perfect. Big planks that had a thin and crispy outside and perfectly soft inside. I have no idea what was in the dipping sauce that came with them, but it was brown and yummy. The thing about Millennium is that the food is all crazy complicated. Sometimes, you just can’t figure it out.
I also got these Vietnamese inspired dolmas. They were crusted in sesame seeds, had a thai coconut curry sauce and there was a salad with avocado. Amazing with a sharp bite of lemongrass. I’ve never had such a light and lovely thai coconut curry.
Kevin got the black bean torte. It was as if that mole tortilla stack I made a while back went to an Ivy League school rather than tech school. Smokey wonderful black beans and several sauces & salsas. Crap we could have stopped here. But no….
I had these edamame shiitake cakes with brown rice and coconut sauce, greens, and then there were a bunch of vegetables up under the greens, mostly asparagus and sugar snap peas. So good! I did have to walk away from some brown rice though. I mean, had to squeeze dessert in somehow.
Kevin had a chard roulade stuffed with tofu cheese. It had tiny black beans and asparagus on the side.The dessert picture didn’t come out well enough to consider posting. We let the waitress pick and she brought a small orange bundt cake soaked in more orange, covered in caramel sauce and with mint sorbet on the side. How many times can I say “holy crap that was good?” I ate my half, but I may have lost a few years off my life for finishing it. It may well have been worth it.
Kevin is going to be soooo mad that I went to Herbivore for breakfast this morning while he had to sit in his class. Hey, I had to eat, right? I chose to go to the one on Valencia, since I spent a lot of time in the Mission when I lived here. It was nice to see some familiar landmarks like that big ‘ol prison looking building, the Bombay Market and Munroe Motors where I threw away a lot of money trying to keep my Triumph running.
It was kind of hard to decide, but I ultimately went with the tofu scramble with spinach, tomatoes and mushrooms. The scramble was nice and moist from the tomatoes, but not soggy. Nutritional yeast was used, but not with a heavy hand, not that that’s a bad thing. And it was crumbled up really tiny. I don’t care, but some people like it chunky better.
The potatoes were partially mashed redskins. It was almost like they used a panini press on the grill to get the creamy & chunky inside and crisp and brown outside effect. They may have been slightly salty, but overall amazing. Although I really can’t tell you why they were yellow.
The toast was a nice artisan bread with lots of holes and a crisp and chewy crust. It came with a jam that was tart and might have been made in house.
Anyway, no real complaints here. Maybe Kevin and I will try the Divisadero location.
View from the hotel does not suck. That’s Coit Tower center front.
I’ll Flickr tons more later from my camera rather than the iPhone. Oh
yes, there will be gratituous food porn.
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Current TV presents an exclusive premiere of British trip-hop phenomenon Portishead’s studio performance as they unveil seven songs from their new
album “Third” in Portishead, England.
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uh, what?
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poop.
Hey, three pounds is a lot of Teese…so expect to see a few more Teese goodies here. I’ve been wanting to bake more breads, because I really don’t have a lot of experience with it. Then I ran across this recipe. It reminded me of the cheese breads I ate in Italy many years ago and seemed like a good way to use up some Teese. All I did is swap out Teese for regular cheese in the recipe. Since the recipe’s already posted online, I’ll just give you a few pics of the process.



Oh yeah, and dinner one night was teese bread dipped in pizza sauce with spinach so we could pretend we were eating healthy.
Salad
1 cup Lundberg wild rice/brown rice blend, cooked
1 cup quinoa, cooked
2 tangerines, peeled, sectioned and cut into bite sized pieces
1 blood orange, peeled, sectioned and cut into bite sized pieces
2 scallions, sliced
Dressing
1/8 cup soy sauce
1/8 cup rice wine vinegar
1/2 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 medium clove of garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon orange or tangerine zest
3/8 cup olive oil
Garnish
1/8 cup walnuts, chopped and toasted lightly in a dry pan
Mix together all the salad ingredients in a big bowl. Whisk all the dressing ingredients except oil together in a separate bowl. Gradually whisk in oil or use immersion blender. Add dressing to salad, to taste. Sprinkle toasted walnuts on top. Eat cold or at room temperature. Will be better if flavors can combine for a couple of hours.
Actually, every vegan potluck I’ve been to has completely rocked. And this one was no exception. Outside, at the park, nice Spring day and a ton of excellent food. This thing happened way back on Sunday. I know, that’s like 5 years ago in internet time. Also, I’m a dumbass and didn’t take any pics. But that’s okay because other people did.
I brought these crustless quiches. I did make some changes to the recipe. I used olive oil instead of cooking spray in the pan. Also, I doubled the recipe, but instead of doubling the mushrooms I added broccoli. Oh, and I think I sprinkled some extra nutritional yeast in there. And, I tossed together a quick citrus grain salad that was basically just wild rice/brown rice blend mixed with some quinoa, scallions, toasted walnuts, tangerines and blood orange with a sesame citrus dressing.
Thanks to Ashley Nicole to pulling this together. I’m sorry more of our vegan lunch group didn’t make it. They missed out!
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