As Mommi & Bengie are leaving tomorrow we went out and celebrated my birthday with a dinner at Il Fornaio courtesy of Bengie. Prawns, gnocchi, pork chop wrapped with pork, lobster ravioli & tiramisu… While it wasn’t like the food in Italy it still gave me that overstuffed feeling on the drive back home.
Category Archives: Food
Barin mini reunion
Mommi & Bengie flew in tonight. Sandy had corned beef in slow cooker all day. We dined on it for dinner.
Weekend
Had a pretty lazy weekend, ate out, mowed the lawn. Oh but we did manage to go a birthday party for Beth. Here’s some random stuff…
LA adventures
Had some training in the home office (I haven’t been there in 3 yrs). Later we had a short visit with my Ma. The tonkotsu ramen at Ramen Yamadaya was to die for… I got mine with a big slab of pork belly. I also had a chance to revisit one of my favorite pastrami …
Maverick
Had to travel to Reno and there are a limited number of flights, so I decided to drive. I stopped over to see Jimi & Amy… okay I wanted to meet Maverick. Oh Jimi made an outstanding 4 course dinner, whatever. Maverick! They also have 3 fat kats. It’ll take 4 washings to get rid …
Gung Hay Fat Choy
Last night we ate at our local Chinese restaurant to honor the new year.
MLK Day
We both had the day off so after a nice breakfast of duck hash & eggs, we drove to the local shopping center to do some errands. We sat in the car listening to the MLK I Have a Dream speech. It was quite inspirational. For Christmas, Sandy gave me a gift certificate for a number …
Famoso
As the boys are leaving tomorrow morning Aleki wanted to have a famoso burrito before he left. We went to our usual La Penca Azul. Aleki did finish that burrito, it was about the size of my arm.
Horatio’s
Today we had lunch at Horatio’s in San Leandro. The bread pudding was to die for… Today I bought lunch at Horatio’s in San Leandro.
Some Dim Sum
Yesterday we went out to brunch for New Years in Emeryville. I got so excited I forgot to photograph the food.