jfield’s Neighborhood

Pannini from Enzo's for lunch (ham).  I went down there with three of the interns, Abhishek, Ashutosh, and Piotr, although only Piotr got something at Enzo's, too.  My primary goal of going to that area was to see if the International Food Court was open yet.  It wasn't.  Now the sign says something like 'On Vacation, Be Back Soon'.  I hope it's true, but I'm not holding my breath.  Pepperoni and green onion pizza for dinner.  Good combo, but I still have the problem with the cheese.  My new culprit is the sauce.  I'm wondering now if I have too much olive oil.  Well next batch I'll cut back and see if that helps.

Breakfast burrito for lunch with, well, a lot of people from work.  We went to the Taqueria Castillo at Market and Mason.  The breakfast burrito is pretty solid.  Still not as good as the old Love's Cafe on Polk.  Man, her breakfast burrito with sausage and bacon was awesome.  Dinner with Charles and Marvin at Shalimar.  The Chicken Tikka Masala was just excellent tonight, better than the usual very, very good.  Midnight noodles with Marvin and Charles at My Favorite Cafe.  I got the luncheon meat and egg noodles (where "luncheon meat" is a euphamism for Spam, or one of the many Spam facsimilies.)  It was pretty good.  After the fresh noodles of the last few days, though, it's kind of a disappointment.

Leftover Henry's Hunan kung pao chicken for lunch and dinner.  Lunch was just with rice, but dinner was with soup and freshly made noodles (although the dough was a couple of days old.)  I liked the dinner version better.

Leftover spaghetti for lunch.  Curry crab from PPQ with Michael for dinner.  However expensive it is (and it is expensive!), the curry crab really is quite excellent.  The second crab in the upper-left hand corner of the picture is the peppercorn crab that Michael ordered and ate.

Chicken, daikon, and mushroom noodle soup for lunch.  I just made very simple noodles -- like 60% water, a pinch of salt, and a dash of baking soda.  They turned out pretty well.  Rolled flat then cut into noodles with my pizza cutter.  Thai peanut chicken noodles for dinner.  The greens are sauteed radish leaves (a Chang-thing) and the noodles are leftover spaghetti with flax from Trader Joe's.

Kung pao chicken from Henry's Hunan for lunch.  It was okay, but too hot for my tastes.  I need more rice!  And tea!  A couple of kati rolls (one chicken tikka, one lamb curry) with Shilpa, Rahul, Ai, and Zack from Kasa for dinner.  The chicken tikka was a little dry, but the lamb was pretty good.  I'm not really that much of a fan of the roti, though.  I like the (leavened) naan they use at Chaat for their wraps.

Wow...it's been a while since I posted anything...

I went out to Pier 7 last night with my friend Zach and took a few shots...

Tea and jook for lunch at Samovar with Sophie.  Dinner with Marvin.  We made two kinds of soup noodles -- Sesame Chicken and a more straight-forward chicken noodle, but with sauteed radish leaves.  I liked the noodles we made -- just 60%  (baker's percentage) water and a pinch of salt.