Sat, May 3, 2008

9.36am - blueberry-flaxseed smoothie, at home10.38am - my crustless veggie quiche w/ soy chicken, gruyere cheese and fresh rosemary from Greg's parents' garden (and no, I did not eat the whole thing all at once...)

11.18am - quiche w/ salad, toasted bread and coffee soy milk, at home, with Ritesh

3.12pm - a Gala apple, at home, in front of our incredibly fragrant jasmine bush

3.50pm - an extra slice of quiche, at home

4.09pm - absinthe chocolate from Italy, at home. Tastes like cough syrup.

4.34pm - to make up for that absinthe chocolate, a little sandwich w/ German truffle chocolate (organic, fair trade), at home

9.01pm - Ritesh wanted to go to Simpang Asia after seeing the pictures I've been taking there. Here's what he picked: chicken w/ spicy eggplant sauce, tamarind soup...

9.03pm - ...Indonesian chicken soup w/ extra lime, hot sauce and shrimp crackers...

9.06pm - and a whole, fried and almost caramelized tilapia, very sweet tasting and delicious (came recommended by the waitress)

9.10pm - and of course the famous avocado-chocolate smoothie, my favorite

9.49pm - Simpang Asia is really an Indonesian grocery store with a tacked on cafe, and they happened to sell these German coconut treats: Raffaello, on the drive home, with Ritesh

Sat, April 26, 2008 - Thanks, Laura!

11am - blueberry-flaxseed smoothie, at home2.49pm - stir-fried kale, fried egg w/ cayenne and black pepper, open-faced radish sandwich on buttered whole grain bread, at home

3.41 - So this is the chocolate pasta! Thanks for your comments, Laura - as you can see, I went with a combination of your suggestions... the strawberries were beginning to go bad, so I cooked them up in a nice, chunky sauce (with some lemon juice, to preserve the color). The nuts were a great idea - I used pistachios just for the color contrast. Then added some dollops of whipped cream just because. So I was very happy with sauce and toppings. The pasta itself, however, is another story... I really wanted to like it, and I really like the idea of it, but truth be told, it is really not that good. Sadly. It's just kind of ... bland. No deep, rich, chocolaty flavor. No sauce in the world can make up for this much blah. Makes me want to try a flourless chocolate cake next, for some of that real, serious, intense chocolate flavor...

Well, and this was it for the day. It's been too hot to eat, really, for one. Plus I fell asleep somewhat early, ahem, and slept right through dinner time, and all I can say in my defense is that it's been a rough week and I haven't been getting much sleep, what with the craziness at work and all the major turn-the-house-upside-down spring cleaning I've been doing at home. I was up to the wee hours every night this week, going through every cabinet, every drawer, every shelf and every single box in every closet and sorting and tossing out and donating and recycling and re-organizing and cleaning and dusting and washing and... you get the picture. Add to that Ritesh being gone and now this heat, all of a sudden - what else is a girl supposed to do on a Saturday night? I'll take some beauty sleep anytime, thank you very much...