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.

A Radical Sabbatical

I'm away surfing

JBay until the 13th of July.

I will

on posts when I get back.

Dinner - 6/??

This was dinner a week or so ago. Vegetarian chili from Trader Joe's (which was much better than expected), corn on the cob & cornbread with honey on top. It was good.


In other news, apparently I'm the only last night's patty contributor that still eats...

6/4/7 - Summertime Dinner

Grilled cheese on homemade wheat bread with avocado, romaine lettuce & cilantro (both from my garden). Corn on the cob. Salad with cashews, dried cherries & avocado, with Annie's Goddess dressing.

I've recently realized how good fresh baked bread is. It's pretty easy to make (this one didn't turn out as well as the one Juliette & I made, but it was still good) and it's so good when it comes out of the oven. It makes the house smell good & I decided I should wear an apron when making it, so that's also exciting.

Favorite summertime foods:
corn on the cob (especially cooked on the bbq)
cherries
peaches/nectarines (especially on cereal, cheerios double especially)
otter pops/big sticks
lemon soy yogurt with frozen raspberries mashed in
macaroni salad

5/28 - Breakfast

Homemade wheat bread (that Juliette & I made the day before) toasted, with homemade jam (that Britton, Juliette & I made the week before). Can't beat that.

5/26 - Overboard

Saturday I hung out with Paul all day. Drew joined us for some evening activities. Our eating habits that day were out of control. It started with a donut around noon from the corner donut shop at 55th & Shattuck. After a few hours of going around town, we went to lanesplitters.

Here I got a zip tune up. A thin slice & a salad for $3.25. Not so bad. L.S's in the day time is pretty great. But for some reason it turns to garbage after 5 or 6pm (as I believe is apparent in Ryan's post about our L.S's dinner a few months back).

After lunch we rode to the liquor store & I got some ice cream & Paul got some weird gummy candy. We played Tony Hawk, went to Concord and came back to meet up with Drew. We went to Peet's but since I don't "get" coffee, I was along for the ride. After watching some of Asphalt Jungle, we decided to go to in'n'out.


This is where I went over the top. Grilled cheese without sauce, add grill onions. Plus fries. It's the best. After I ate it, Paul & Drew still had another burger/grilled cheese to eat. I mentioned that another one sounded good. They agreed & I purchased. However, as soon as I purchased, I immediately regretted it. 2 grilled cheese? What was I thinking? I wasn't hungry. But I ate it in the car on the way home. My stomach wasn't my #1 fan on Saturday, May 26th. We also ate this around 9pm & I went to bed 2 hours later. I had weird dreams & I blame my stupid amounts of food before bed.

5/27, Sunday, I tried to make up for it by eating a little bit better: cereal, cherries, homemade baked tortilla chips with homemade salsa, homemade bread & half a quesadilla. oh woops, I also ate ice cream. I need to cut this shit out. Seriously.