14 posts tagged “ice cream”
I kinda didn't have lunch inasmuch as I didn't actually get a single thing to eat. I just walked around and enjoyed the sunny weather at lunchtime. But I sure ate a lot of snacks in the afternoon; chips and nuts and crackers and soup(!), but no cookies. Pork and shrimp dumplings for dinner with Michael and Chang. Again we made the dough (same ratio, AP flour and 60% tap water) and the filling in the food processor and it turned out pretty well. A waffle ice cream sandwich from Kowloon Tong for dessert with Chang.
Leftover KFC for lunch. The new chipotle chicken is okay. I don't like it as much as the hot and spicy. I'd probably rate it above crispy but below original and hot and spicy. After my bike ride I had a Coke float made with the honey/lime ice cream I made the day before yesterday. It was pretty good, but the ice cream is a little too creamy. Dinner with Michael at My Tofu House. I had the dumpling soon dubu (mild because I had had a bloody nose like an hour before.) Anyhow it was an birthday dinner for Michael, so Happy Birthday!
Extremely hot (spicy) jambalaya from Neeto's for lunch yesterday. It was pretty good, but, frankly, too hot for me. I'll have to give their gumbo a taste to see how it is. The Neeto's menu has a lot of Creole dishes (gumbo, jambalaya, blacked this and that.) Spam, eggs, and rice for dinner. I wanted to get a nice easy over egg, but the yolk broke when I cracked the shell, so it just turned into a fried egg. Spam, eggs, and rice. Very Hawaiian!
Today I had the spicy Szechuan noodle soup from the B&M chinese place on Second. Ice cream and pizza (pepperoni and pepperoncini) for dinner. The pizza was okay. I tried lowering the temperature from 550 to 450 to preserve the cheese, but that didn't work. Maybe it's my blend. Maybe the cheddar is just a bad choice. The ice cream was just okay, too. I added chocolate chips into the ice cream maker in the last five minutes or to make a vanilla chocolate chip, but really the choclate chips just freeze and get extremely hard. So the flavor is good, but the texture is bad. Back to the drawing board.
Today I had the spicy Szechuan noodle soup from the B&M chinese place on Second. Ice cream and pizza (pepperoni and pepperoncini) for dinner. The pizza was okay. I tried lowering the temperature from 550 to 450 to preserve the cheese, but that didn't work. Maybe it's my blend. Maybe the cheddar is just a bad choice. The ice cream was just okay, too. I added chocolate chips into the ice cream maker in the last five minutes or to make a vanilla chocolate chip, but really the choclate chips just freeze and get extremely hard. So the flavor is good, but the texture is bad. Back to the drawing board.
Leftover gumbo for lunch. Miso ramen for dinner with Michael at Tampopo. I finally got a taste of the bori-cha and chocolate chip ice cream I made two weeks ago. It wasn't bad (I say immodestly.) I gave the rest to my folks to take down to my sister.
Leftovers for lunch yesterday. Dinner with Michael and Auntie Glo at the Tong Palace. I made a little more bori-cha with chocolate chips ice cream last night. It looks good, but I haven't tried it out yet (it's still hardening in the freezer.)
Okay, off to Alaska for two weeks!
臭豆腐 (stinky tofu), fried calamari, and silken tofu casserole with chicken and ham (pictured) for dinner with Marvin at Spices! in the Richmond. I'm still not a fan of the stinky tofu, but the calamari and the 'casserole' (hot pot soup) were both excellent. Lunch with the extended (Wong) family at the Golden Wok in San Mateo.
Tonight's ice cream is bori-cha (Korean barley tea) again. I cut down on the amount of vanilla sugar by 25%, and forgot a pinch of salt. It's good, but it's a little icey. I think the extra sugar would have helped keep ice crystals from forming. We'll see how it is in the morning (after it's had a night in the freezer.) I thought about shredding and adding some dark (bitter-sweet) chocolate, but in the end I decided against it. There's always next time, yes? But it was probably a mistake to not add it. I mean it's delicious the way it is, but hey, is adding chocolate to ice cream ever wrong?
Tonight's ice cream is bori-cha (Korean barley tea) again. I cut down on the amount of vanilla sugar by 25%, and forgot a pinch of salt. It's good, but it's a little icey. I think the extra sugar would have helped keep ice crystals from forming. We'll see how it is in the morning (after it's had a night in the freezer.) I thought about shredding and adding some dark (bitter-sweet) chocolate, but in the end I decided against it. There's always next time, yes? But it was probably a mistake to not add it. I mean it's delicious the way it is, but hey, is adding chocolate to ice cream ever wrong?
A blue cheese and beef sandwich from Specialties (pretty good, maybe slightly above average, but in the end, it's still just a sandwich) at work for lunch. Fried chicken (KFC) and rice at home for dinner because that's just the way I felt.
The barley tea ice cream was pretty well received, which is gratifying. I left the rest at work. I still think it's pretty darned mocha-y.
This is how badass my ice cream is -- when I was scooping it out of the machine and into the container last night, the wooden spoon I was using broke. It's another vanilla, but this time I replaced about a third of the sugar with orange blossom honey, so I'm calling the concoction 'honey vanilla'. I ate too much of it tonight.
Anyhow lunch from Mehfil with Cristina, Dayo, Bryan, and Jeremy. I got a 1-3 combo, which today was chickpea curry and a pistachio chicken. An excellent combo. As usual, I think I could have used another serving of rice. Maybe next time I'll get a little rice on the side. Dinner with Lisa at Ai (heart) Sushi on Geary. The yelp reviews are pretty spot on. Kinda average sushi. I have to say, thought, that the double-hamachi roll was excellent. You really can't go wrong with adding more hamachi to hamachi. It's like sausage wrapped in bacon -- delicious on top of delicious.
Anyhow lunch from Mehfil with Cristina, Dayo, Bryan, and Jeremy. I got a 1-3 combo, which today was chickpea curry and a pistachio chicken. An excellent combo. As usual, I think I could have used another serving of rice. Maybe next time I'll get a little rice on the side. Dinner with Lisa at Ai (heart) Sushi on Geary. The yelp reviews are pretty spot on. Kinda average sushi. I have to say, thought, that the double-hamachi roll was excellent. You really can't go wrong with adding more hamachi to hamachi. It's like sausage wrapped in bacon -- delicious on top of delicious.
Won ton soup for lunch. Garlic, clam, and sriracha pizza for dinner. Then I went crazy and had a little tub of ice cream for dessert. Now, once again, I am all sorts of buzzed.
Tofu masala from Mehfil for lunch with Dayo and Chris. Wow, it was really excellentt -- the best meal of the day. It had a nice smooth and spicey flavor with a really excellent garam masala taste. Dinner with Michael at Roadside BBQ. I'm a little disappointed because the ribs weren't as tender as they have been or should be. I don't know if it was just a bad day or if they're just becoming an average restaurant. I'll give it a little bit of time and try again.
Vanilla ice cream and thin mints (yay! for Girl Scout cookie season!) for dessert. The vanilla turned out pretty well. I'm happy with it. I think I messed up a little, though, because I dumped the liquid into the frozen ice cream maker container before I started it turning, so part of the liquid froze right away. Now I know.
Vanilla ice cream and thin mints (yay! for Girl Scout cookie season!) for dessert. The vanilla turned out pretty well. I'm happy with it. I think I messed up a little, though, because I dumped the liquid into the frozen ice cream maker container before I started it turning, so part of the liquid froze right away. Now I know.
