7/29 - Sick Dinner

Being sick is the worst, especially in the summertime, double especially when you're on vacation. Yesterday for dinner I had lentil soup, bread with smoked gouda and ginger ale.

7/27 - Love & Haight

What a clever name for a sandwich shop. Or just a shop on Haight in general. Very, very clever.

I had never been here, which is surprising. I had a very good vegetarian sandwich that wasn't terribly expensive. Sourdough roll, veggies add avocado, with "chicken" steak. The steak was hot but not too hot to wilt the vegetables. It had a nice contrast of hot & cold. The fake meat didn't make me feel grossie like some kinds do (ahem-Great Wall-ahem). I really enjoyed my sandwich.
PS: I took this picture on the "food" setting on my new camera. It's kind of dark. I increased the exposure to make it lighter for the next picture. It looked exactly the same. Maybe I just don't have a trained eye in the art of digital cameras.

7/22/7-Sharing Snacks

Today I made tofu sticks and brought them to the punk dj day at the Missouri Lounge. They were eatin up real quick like. I got the recipe from Mel's vegan blog and adapted it a bit. I pressed tofu for a long time, dunked in a flour mixture (wheat flour, cumin, garlic, salt, pepper, nutritional yeast), then a liquid mixture (soymilk, siracha, apple cider vinegar, soy sauce), then back in the flour mixture. Drizzled with olive oil & baked. Afterwards I put lemon juice on them & topped with cilantro and chives. Yum yum yum.

7/12/7 - Dinner

I've been trying to come up with more things to bbq. Earlier this week, it hit me. Paninis! And just when I thought that was all I could come up with, I saw a tv cook make some sort of bbq potato salad. So that's basically what we did yesterday. It was delightful.


We thinly sliced potatoes, put olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic on them and put them on the bbq. They were better then I thought they would be. The sandwiches had: cheese (provolone, smoked guda, and/or mozerella), fresh basil, tomato, avocado, grilled zuchini and onions. We drizzled olive oil on them and rubbed the bread with garlic. We put a cast iron skillet down on top of it to panini-fy it. It was great. Another bbq triumph.

7/1/7 - Snack?

Before the bbq we decided to go to Bay Street as Kristin had a coupon for the Sunglass Hut (which isn't a hut anymore, by the way) and her fancy phone broke so she needed to go to Cingular. Paul and I visited Issac at the bake shop and got free cupcakes. Then we went to Cingular. In the back there is a play station set up for kids. I sat down at it with Paul and started building train tracks. We realized they're probably really germy so we stopped. I looked across the table, and this is what I saw:
Fried chicken. Hanging out on the table. Just hanging. Maxin' and relaxin. With some encouragement from Drew & Paul, I decided to take a picture. After I snapped this fabulous photo (literally maybe 5 seconds later) this little boy comes running up to me with a chicken bone sticking out of his mouth and says (in a passive whiny sort of high pitched voice), "hey that's my chiiicken." He then grabs it and runs away. Drew's (and Kristin's) reaction follows:
While, I am aware this wasn't MY meal, I felt it was my responsibility to share his meal with the last night's patty community.

July 1 - BBQ 'za

Today we triumphed. What was almost a failure turned into a complete success within minutes.

After careful planning and what I thought would work perfectly, we attempted to bbq pizza on a charcoal grill. After trying to light the bbq for maybe 45 minutes (and failing miserably) we reluctantly decided to bake the pizza. I felt defeated. However, after realizing it was in fact, lit and hot, Kristin & I put our pizzas on the grill next to the bread to make bruscetta. It heated the toppings really fast, possibly too fast. It had a completely different taste to any pizza you bake in the oven (obvies). I can't really describe it but I made everybody try it to see what I was talking about. It was just, different. But better than a normal pizza by far. The bruscetta also took on a different flavor, totes next level. We triumphed. I can't wait to do it again.

Pictured below: bbq pizza with Trader Joe's herb dough, olives, artichoke hearts & kidney beans, and bruscetta. I should have taken a picture of the grill marks as you can't really tell that it was bbqed.