Last night we met Kathy at Enssaro in Oakland for our 1st Ethiopian dinner. We didn’t have a clue so we let Kathy do all the ordering. The food was wonderful as the Harar Beer was too. It was fun eating with our hands. Although I was a bit puzzled by the mousse cake desert …
Category Archives: Food
Pork Sisig I
Allow me to get on a soap box for a minute. We appear to be in the minority in this world that wastes food. I get tired of the attitude, “Do you know what’s in a hot dog?” With that in mind… I like pork sisig so Sandy bought me the pig parts to experiment …
Asena
Tonight we met Uncle Russell and Aunty Sachi for dinner at Asena here in downtown Alameda. Let’s see pear martini, endive salad, gnocchi, panna cotta & liquored up coffee.
Arlene
Met Arlene for lunch today at Old Port Lobster Shack in Redwood City. The lobster rolls were great.
Mary Ann @ Kalesa
Mary Ann (Bunny) wuz in town so we met her at Kalesa in Milpitas for lunch. Now we just ate at Gerry’s on Friday so it’s been a Filipino food marathon. I have acquired a taste for pork sisig and refuse to go to a Filipino restaurant that doesn’t serve it.
Blue Berry
I bought Sandy a blueberry plant and never took it out of the original pot thinking I would kill it. Today we got 1 whole blueberry. I am the man!
Mochi
While at the Tofu Festival yesterday I purchased a box of Harajuku Mochi Chocolat. This was based purely on its description–strawberry filled mochi with a dusting of chocolate. It looks like horse turds, but man this is a good find…
Toe Fu In Festation
Today we went into Japan Town in San Francisco to check out the Tofu Festival. Later we went to Sapporo-Ya for a Ramen lunch.
Post Birthday
Today we had brunch at Pappos, then followed that with an X men movie.
26 hrs in Paradise
Flew in around noon, done by 5. I had to fly 2400 mi just to have dinner with Teddy & Christine. Flew out at 1:15PM in pouring rain. Have a nice vacation Teddy & Christine.