Sun, Sept 21 - Anisette

10.38am - Silver Palate oatmeal boiled in coconut-rice milk, with caramelized apples and walnuts and some leftover chocolate sauce, at home, with Ritesh.2.07pm - leftover Indian food from last night, at home.

2.13pm - the cherry-lychee-vodka sorbet I made last week is still good!

Spent the afternoon reading through the Bouchon and French Laundry cookbooks and I can tell you, there are only so many recipes for French onion soup and other bistro fare that you can read before you begin to get some serious craving. French onion soup, apparently, needs to be started a couple of days before consumption, and involves, amongst other things, caramelizing onions for five hours. While stirring every 15 min. Having obviously missed the boat for today (we don't even have any onions in the house, for starters), I had no choice but to head over to Alain Giraud's new bistro, Anisette.

Anisette does manage to have a French feel, half a block from the Third Street Promenade. Love the red leather banquette, and the tiles on the floor remind me of my grandma's kitchen. Did I tell you my grandma owned a restaurant? Not for nothing that I'm a little obsessed w/ food...

5.31pm - and here it is, ta da! Anisette's famed soupe a l'oignon!

5,50pm - moules frites, at Anisette. Best fries I've had all year! Perfect!

6.19pm - an impeccable creme caramel, with a nicely tart passion fruit caramel. On the side, a couple of lemon cookies (hiding in the handle of the cream container), and some real whipped cream w/ vanilla bean. Heaven!

Wed, Sept 10 - totally uninspired

10.26am - veggie breakfast pizza from Wolfgang Puck's, outside Gelson's 10.31pm - veggie juice, outside Gelson's

2.54pm - an underwhelming French-Canadian pear 'yogourt' with some cereal grains, at work

4.12pm - this one was better: yogurt made with cultured coconut milk, pretty cool. No ersatz for lunch, though. Way too much work today.

6.30pm - no comment.

Wed, May 14, 2008

8.10am - omega-3 bar, after bootcamp.9.25am - home-made sweet bread rolls, at work

12.21pm - Indian cabbage, at work.

14.21h - well, this was Ritesh's egg curry from last night. Ate it all before I remembered to take a picture.

15.29h - green tea frozen yogurt w/ fresh raspberries and mochi, from Pinkberry, outside work.

16.15h - we had a building fire drill today, and all good corporate citizens who evacuated the building during the drill were rewarded with a chocolate chip cookie upon their return. I used the fire drill to run off to Pinkberry for my frozen yogurt, so the cookie lady was gone by the time I came back. But a kind-hearted co-worker managed to find me a cookie anyway...

19.57h - lemon chicken wrap and side of falafel, at California Pita, with Ritesh.

19.57h - Ritesh's shish kebab pita and side of fries which we shared, at California Pita.

Sun, Feb 17, 2008 - Mammoth

8.44am - bagel w/ peanut butter and banana, at the M Inn, Mammoth, with Ritesh1.30pm - chili at the Tamarack Lodge, with Ritesh

1.36pm - French Onion Soup, at Tamarack Lodge, with Ritesh

3.34pm - a fuji after skiing up to frozen Lake Mary, at 8960ft (in fast 300om Hoehe), with Ritesh

3.55pm - Fruit&Nut Toblerone while cross-country skiing back down Lake Mary Road

5.57pm - a Spanish Red whose name I forgot, plus bread and olive oil-balsamico dip at Petra's Bistro & Wine Bar (named not after me, but after the owner's Austrian mother), Mammoth, with Ritesh

6.00pm - Lobster Miso, Udon noodles, Spinach, at Petra's, with Ritesh

6.01pm - Fries w/ Garlic Aoli, at Petra's, with Ritesh

6.05pm - Wild mushroom and crispy leeks soup, at Petra's, with Ritesh

7.05pm - Amaretto Sour at the Mammoth Brewing Company, with Ritesh

Sun, Jan 20, 2008

crepes citron sucre et chocolat framboise. a la maison

5 tangerines and a pear, at home

In-n-out burger and fries, with Ritesh (his is on the left, my protein-style burger without the bun on the right, somewhere under the lettuce

Wed, Jan 16, 2008

8.52am - peanutbutter and jelly sandwich, boiled egg, OJ and the nasty antibiotic cocktail that's been messing up my system for the last few days (and 6 more days to go, urgh)10.02am - fruit salad from Amanda's birthday buffet, at work
12.55pm - Italian wedding soup from Gelson's,

blueberry corn bread from Whole Foods, outside work
6.59pm - home baked fries with chipotle mayo, at home
7.58pm - German treats out of Mom's delayed Christmas package, at home

Tue, Jan 15, 2008

9.50am - peanut butter and jelly toast, at work 11.50am - leftover Tom Kah soup from Bangkok West, lime rice pilaf, at work
1.35pm - Apple Bundt cake from Coral Tree Cafe, at the park behind Fox Studios
3.31pm - pineapple juice, at work (hotel pool next door)
6.36pm - McDonald's fries, on the way home from work
8.17pm - Amy's cheeseless pizza w/ artichokes, shitake mushrooms and

caramelized onions, ginger ale, at home, with Ritesh

Wed, Jan 9, 2008

Aufgrund verstimmten Magens kein Frühstück.

12.10pm - angus burger and garlic-ginger fries at Bread Bar

3.50pm - soy hot chocolate, madeleines, (and a caramel macchiato for Cecy) w/ Gary Marenzi's Starbucks card, outside work

5.17pm - one fuji, on the lunchroom terrace at work

8.25pm - hot rice cereal w/ raspberry sauce, at home

8.32pm - 5 walnuts, at home