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Parking Wars: A Ballet

July 15, 2010 in food by Moye | 4 comments

It’s been quite an adventure watching the battle between the restaurants along Miracle Mile and the delicious food trucks that come by during lunch. This month, the building across the street has been taking the lame road by paying their staff to hog all the parking spots along Wilshire so only a couple trucks (the ones who are there early enough) are able to set up for the lunch crowd.

A friend told me about this daily ritual and this morning, I got to work early to check it out and capture some stuff on my phone for the video above. Pretty crazy!

I have a feeling that these trucks are fine with the most of the spots being taken up by junk cars; having less space available for food trucks also means less competition for them, so they’re still able to make a good amount of money from the lunch hour.

And for those restaurants across the street? They should be more worried about The Counter opening up in August. I’m not a huge fan of their burgers but holy crap, their apple pie milkshakes are amazing. This also means milkshakes are now less than a block away from me, every Monday through Friday. Uggggh, I should stock up on muumuus in preparation for the calorie festival that’s going to happen in my life in the next couple of months.

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Saddest Pistachio Bag Ever

July 13, 2010 in food by Moye | No comments

Saddest bag of pistachios

Today for lunch, I enjoyed a box from Cart for a Cause, a local food truck that features celebrity chefs who create special menus for $10, all of which benefits St. Vincent Meals on Wheels (aka homeless old people). It was delicious. I had a panchetta burrata sandwich, a yummy oatmeal cookie, a POM drink and…this lame bag of pistachios. Seriously, I had to pick between two brands of nuts and I decided to go for Everybody’s Nuts, which gave me THIS. SIX PISTACHIOS. Thanks, guys. I no longer support your goofy campaign.

Um…yeah. This is how lame my life is. I’m blogging about the number of pistachios I got in a bag. Someone shoot me.

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Pasta Tutorial

June 27, 2010 in Asians, food by Moye | 1 comment

My dad dropped off some of his pasta leftovers for me to eat. It came with instructions. Thankfully, I know my alphabet so I think I’ll be able to follow this easily.

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My Little Seedlings

June 11, 2010 in food by Moye | 2 comments

Seedlings

Meet my new cilantro family! I’ve never successfully grown plants from seed before, so the fact that these coriander seeds actually sprouted and grow bigger every day just blows me away. The last time I tried this, I sowed strawberry seeds in a cute little strawberry pot and waited week after week before finally giving up. Maybe I didn’t really water the pot or anything, but it still broke my heart.

Now I know I can do this! Also, my plans to live among a huge pasture of mouth-wateringly-scented cilantro is almost complete. I just need like 564 more of these jiffy pots, and I’m set.

Nature is amazing!

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Happy No Donut Day!

June 4, 2010 in Thoughts, food by Moye | 1 comment

According to this video, the Salvation Army declared the first Friday of every June as National Donut Day. Today’s National Donut Day also marks the first year that I haven’t had any donuts (not including those formative years when I couldn’t eat solid food) and as this video also points out, I’m better off without them! Well, I am for the next six months anyways. I can’t wait until 2011 when I eat an entire box of maple bars alone. It will be glorious.

But there’s also another reason why I’m boycotting National Donut Day. Dunkin Donuts finally announced the winner of their “Create the Next Donut” contest, who put together a disgusting combination of banana fosters cream, peanut butter shavings and chocolate frosting called ‘Monkey-See, Monkey-Donut.” Why not just call it “Moye-See, Moye-Throw-up” and get it over with. Ugh, BANANAS?! IN A DONUT? I don’t think I’ve heard of anything more offensive.

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Mission Accomplished

March 12, 2010 in Thoughts, food by Moye | 3 comments

We did it! I currently want to barf, not because the food at French Laundry was gross, but because we just subjected ourselves to a 8 course lunch that was beyond our imaginations and now I can never eat food again. So that’s a bit of an exaggeration and the bill made my stomach clench a bit, but the experience was perfect. Have you ever sat down to a meal where absolutely everything was delicious and you wished it was common courtesy to lick your plate clean? Yeah, that was pretty much our lunch today. The decor was classic and simple, the tables were evenly spaced between us, I will never eat another scallop as yummy as today and even if I did act like an immature 13 year old (Waiter: Are you all here to celebrate something special for this meal? Me: Yeah, that we’re AWESOME.), I’m counting this as one of my top 3 meals of a lifetime.

The hardest part was spying on the other diners and noticing each received a delicate plate of coffee and sugary donuts. I thought this would have marked the end of my year long bet against B (that I wouldn’t eat a donut for 365 days) because how would anyone be able to turn away food from Thomas Keller, especially if it was a plate of freshly made DONUTS? AHH.  Luckily (but still sadly), I didn’t realize this was a signature dish that you had to order so even though I waited and waited with dread, I was able to leave without breaking my resolution. Phew.

Tomorrow: back to Ad Hoc and then the gym.

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Somewhere Over the Rainbow Pancakes

March 1, 2010 in Thoughts, baking, food by Moye | 7 comments

This weekend saw the follow-up to our Giant Cupcake Baking Adventure with a giant Rainbow Pancake. I thought we were going to make mini pie jars but it turns out that Lisa doesn’t really like pies for some odd reason but seriously, how can you NOT like pie? It’s the most amazing thing in the world. It’s like a giant pastry of goodness that you eat in slices.

So we compromised with Rainbow Pancakes, which was a lot harder than you think. Not only do you have to find a good pancake recipe (which we made from scratch, thank you very much, with milk pilfered from the office kitchen, which I had nothing to do with, thank you very much), but you also had to make sure there was enough food dye to create the vibrant colors of the light spectrum.

Giant Rainbow Pancake

But we did it! I also love our new camera.

Giant Rainbow Pancake

Giant Rainbow Pancake

Giant Rainbow Pancake

The difference in the pancakes’ thickness was due to our lack of planning in how many pancake rainbows we were going to make and then ending up just making one giant pancake per color. Yeah. Listen, this is tiring work.

Giant Rainbow Pancake

Also, my camera makes Lisa feel very self conscious but how could I resist? She’s so photogenic.
Giant Rainbow Pancake

Coming up next month: a giant Oreo cookie cake. We are not kidding. We just have to figure out what to put inside, since apparently all the Fluff we had for our cupcake is all gone.

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No More Donuts!

February 23, 2010 in Thoughts, baking, food by Moye | No comments

Ugh. This is so annoying. It’s not even the end of February and this ban against donuts is getting hard and harder. At first I thought it would be easy, since I’m not surrounded by these delicious fried breakfast treats, but then friends started sending me pictures of their local Dunkin Donuts over Twitter (which is really mean) and now THIS.

Last night, I came home to a brand new Williams Sonoma catalog with a cover that featured–you guessed it–homemade donuts as part of their “comfort food recipe” selection. Awesome. So it doesn’t matter that there aren’t any Dunkin Donuts around me. I can just deep fry my own donuts at home. And look at all their donut accessories! AHH.

Wait, what? Is that donut too small for you? Then check out this Giant Donut Cake Pan where you can bake your very own enormous donut, complete with chocolate glaze and sprinkes.

This is ridiculous. LEAVE ME ALONE, DONUTS. 10 more months.

The universe hates me.

PS. So I have this theory. I really want that Giant Donut Cake Pan. Since it’s really a cake (and not deep fried like a donut), it doesn’t count as a donut, right? So I can eat this and still keep my resolution, right? RIGHT? Right.

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Time To Make Moye Donuts!

February 9, 2010 in Thoughts, baking, food by Moye | No comments

The evil Dunkin Donuts (evil because they will never say if and when they’re expanding to the West Coast) is hosting their annual “Create Dunkin’s Next Donut” contest where you can (duh) create your own special fried treat with a chance of having it turned into an actual real donut.

I’m almost a month into my 2010 bet to not eat a donut for a whole year, which is going quite swimmingly if you even cared, but I’m still having a lot of fun trying to invent delicious and awesome flavors.

For example, here’s the one I made for B. It’s got all of his favorite things, all mixed up together into complete and utter grossness: a blueberry cake donut stick with peanut butter frosting and Heath bar crumble topping. GROSS. Thank god they didn’t offer any banana options.

So here’s my ultimate favorite donut of all time!

BAM! Maple glazed bar topped with sprinkles in the official Dunkin Donuts colors (pink and orange). What can I say? I like to keep things classy, simple and completely unoriginal. There is nothing better than a maple bar.

Too bad I can’t even eat one until 2011. ;_;

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Giant Cupcake Baking Adventure

January 25, 2010 in Thoughts, baking, food by Moye | 1 comment

Yesterday, Lisa and I embarked on a crazy and wild adventure where our goal was to bake a giant cupcake. (It’s 25 times the size of a normal cupcake!) I’m happy to say that we accomplished this with much success (and oozing and explosion).

So I’d like to present to you our giant S’Mores cupcake, made from Mark Bittman’s Simple Chocolate cake recipe, stuffed with marshmallow fluff, topped with vanilla buttercream frosting and decorated with graham crackers–ALL MADE FROM SCRATCH!! Well, except for the graham crackers and fluff.

No, we’re not sure how it tasted because by the time we were done, the fluff filling kept oozing out and it just seemed too sad to destroy a giant cupcake that we had spent all afternoon making.

Really, giant cupcakes are really hard to put together. Also, this cupcake was NOT 25 times larger than a regular cupcake. Whoever designed this pan clearly never enjoyed an actual cupcake from Sprinkles or Magnolia, because we estimated that maybe this cupcake was more like 5 times larger than normal.

More photos after the jump!

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