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And this is still the best chocolate cake in the world. Okay, I’m kind of lying because this was a fresh cake I got from Cookie Casa and not something frozen from our reception last year, so who knows what that would have tasted like but my original statement still stands. This is the best chocolate cake in the world. And I hope we eat this every October for many years to come. <3
Tags: Cake
So, Lisa and I haven’t had any Giant Baking Adventures lately, but it’s mostly her fault. I mean, I’ve been a little busy with various things in my life that I can’t really recall right now, but she’s such a social butterfly with so much going on that it’s hard to find a time or a place to bake. That’s all a lie. We’re kind of out of ideas of giant things to bake. We still have a giant cinnamon bun to bake, but having to wait for the dough to rise and all that makes things complicated.
But then I saw this PUMPKIN PIE IN A CUPCAKE and we were like, OMG WE HAVE TO MAKE THIS. Pie in a cupcake whaaaat? *brain explodes* Why not make a Giant Pumpkin Pie in a Cupcake, since we already have a giant cupcake pan AND my amazing culinary pie skills to begin with?
So let’s do this. How? I have no idea.
Tags: baking, Giant Baking Adventures, Pumpkin Pie
The other night, I skipped out on a company party so I could make a batch of omurice for dinner. I know I’ve said this before, but I’m pretty amazing when it comes to making this, from the fried rice to the perfectly golden omelet. Of course, when you hand the bottle of ketchup over to someone who has the maturity levels of a third grader, this happens.
Tags: japanese food, omurice, penis
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.
Tags: food, food trucks, los angeles
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.
Tags: Cart for a Cause, food
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.
Tags: Dad, Instructions, Pasta
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!
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.
Tags: bananas, Donut, dunkin donuts, National Donut Day
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.
Tags: French Laundry, Thomas Keller
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.
But we did it! I also love our new camera.
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.
Also, my camera makes Lisa feel very self conscious but how could I resist? She’s so photogenic.
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.
Tags: here's the problem, Lisa, pancakes, Rainbow pancakes
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