The wife busted this dish out a few nights ago. Tasty times!
Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Broccoli, Tofu and Quinoa
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
3 ingredients, 3 steps = really good hot cocoa
Sunday, March 28th, 2010Some folks think that you need to get those little packets of mix to make a good cup of cocoa. They're wrong! Here's how we do it at home:
Ingredients:
- 1 super heaping teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder (preferably, fair trade and organic)
- 1 teaspoon sugar (maybe two if you're using milk. we use sweetened soy milk so we cut it down to 1)
- 1 mug of milk
Steps:
- Measure ingredients into your mug
- Spoon in 4-5 teaspoons of hot milk into the mug and thoroughly stir into a slurry
- Pour in milk while stiring
Enjoy! (ostensibly the 4th step ;)
Oakland & SF Photos, Coffee and Scotch Whiskey
Monday, March 1st, 2010Ok, this'll be a good ramble. In order of the photos below, first up is the PG&E embarcadero substation. Huge buildings that have no windows are not for humans. They seem to always be for some utility company. Weird and cool looking. Next up is a shot of a late I made at work. Microfoam is looking good, latte art, not so much. We'll get there, just you wait and see. Next up, the shocking truth about the price of a bottle of decent scotch. The first is Eddie's Liquors which has a bottle for $70. Then Trador Joe's has the same bottle for $37. Shocking! After than is the 411 30th building in oakland. Some what unassuming until you check out the details (art deco?) of the lobby. I love this old stuff.
Last night I did a ride from our house, through downtown oakland, through china town, past laney, all the way south down to the park street bridge, all the way around alameda, and the double back almost the same way you came. Along the way I went through the defunct airforce base. The next photo after 411 30th shots are the HUGE doors (no street view) on the base. I love 'em! On the way back I stumbled upon The Hotel Oakland. Woah! This building is 1 square block and looks like it's from New York city. It's on 13th off of Broadway, who knew?! Wikipedia suggests it's on the list of Alameda County Historical Landmarks and some random site has this history:
"A residence and health center for the elderly. The building housed the finest hotel in Oakland until it went out of business in the Great Depression; in 1943 it became an army hospital and by the 1960s a VA hospital. From 1963 to 1979 it was vacant, before being reborn into its current use."
Lastly, a sunset shot of the good ol tribune tower. Hi Modern Cafe!
Pizza and Dough From Scratch
Sunday, February 14th, 2010Note to self – don't make the water too hot or you'll kill the yeast.
WordPress Exploit, Fog, Fruit, Plants and Plates
Saturday, October 24th, 2009Here's a random collection of items that happened over the last 10 or so days.
My friend's blog got hacked! This is because of a WordPress exploit that allows a user to create an admin user and log into your blog. They can then upload random stuffs to do all sorts of nasties. Your best bet is to first check that your blog hasn't been hacked and then upgrade to the latest version. Sadly, if you've already been hacked, the new admin user in there and upgrading won't boot this user. Plip has upgraded as we weren't hacked, but we lost our Plipish theme. That'll come back soon, promise.
Our friend from twtitw joined us for a commute on the Ferry to SF. It's a lovely way to commute, they take bicycles and sometimes you get spooky fog! Then, when you get to SF, you're at the ferry building where you can get tasty treats. See pics below.
I was commuting home from a friends house on Wednesday night and there was a big sign that said "Wet plates ahead". Just before there was one that said "Dirty Knives on Left" and after one said "Sporks in Road".
Our fave famers market still has strawberries. OMG, do they! Look at this huge one. Can you believe it's organic?
With the sunlight fading sooner and sooner each night, I'm going for more and more sunset rides. Here's another pic for the latest on Thursday night.
Finally, our venus fly trap is blooming! Fun.
Photos: Food, Bikes, Sunsets and Stars
Monday, October 5th, 2009The other night we made fried okra. Tasty! This past Sunday I went for another sunseterific MTB ride in Tilden and Wildcat parks. Since taking some initial photos, I've since figured how to take long 60 second photos. We got stars on film; this is a first for me since back in my analog film days. Enjoy!
Stir Fry Dinner
Monday, September 14th, 2009Here's some photos I took of tonight's meal. I love it when the sweets cooks for me, but I also enjoy honing my ad hoc stir fry skills.
Tasty comfort food
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009I'm a lucky man. Not only do I get to learn about a new comfort foods from my partner, she's a phenomenal cook too. Last night we had fishcakes, mac and cheese and green beans. Admittedly the mac and cheese was from a box, but it at least it was organic. We got a new camera, so I've been a bit trigger happy with it. Enjoy some macros of the three dishes all plated up!
Macchiato!
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
I will be the first to confess that I love the ritual around coffee as much as I love the the actual drinking of coffee. Today, joining my pal from twtitw, I went to the wonderful Cento Cafe. It was sunny, the two macchiatos looked lovely and I was as happy as, well, as a me drinking phenomenal coffee with a good friend in the sun!
This is what makes a happy Sunday
Sunday, June 28th, 2009Well, this and a good bike ride!
With out really knowing it, I've been working my way through the Joy of Cooking's pancake recipes. I've done basic, cornmeal and today was buttermilk. The basic is a bit watery, resulting in flatter pancakes. Today was the opposite, a bit fluffy. However, the fluff made for a great 3d pacman pic.
