Um, pretty much all about food I've had in the last two days.

[sarea]

14 delicious red gold nectarines are mine. Yessss! Now I just have to hope they last a week, because there's no way I'm eating that many by myself in a shorter amount of time. Spent the morning with my cousin and her two kids (ages 3 and 1) -- seriously, I'm exhausted. I really admire parents. They have patience and energy that I just don't have. And working parents on top of that -- total props.

We went to a bakery before hitting the farmer's market and got these heavenly chocolate croissants. I forget the name of the bakery. Anyway, I've known and loved chocolate croissants before, but none of them have ever had this same kind of texture, where it's a *true* flaky and buttery croissant, but with a layer of chocolate baked into the middle. (Previously they've been croissant-like, but wasn't as soft or flaky or yummy.)

My icon is therefore Amanda with a pastry, though I certainly wasn't making that face when I was eating mine. :)) This is also my opportunity to rave about Ugly Betty and how marvelous Becki Newton is. <3 her and the show, though I've only seen S1 and a tiny part of S2.

Had the lovely corianderstem over for dinner last night. The Zantac worked!! I totally had a glass of wine without turning red, getting heart palpitations, or a headache! Very exciting. Tell all your Asian friends!! The chili (recipe of which I actually got from my dinner guest) was really good, but now I'm inspired to experiment on it some more. Last night I added ground cumin, half a bottle of Corona, and fresh garlic. Next time I'm going to try adding a seeded jalapeno to give it some kick, some tomatoes, and coffee!

Hey noelleleithe, I totally went back to the market and got some honeycrisp apples. Either I was on crack the day I first saw them, or they changed their prices over the weekend, but this time they were $3.99/lb. >< Still, I got a few of them and they do have a great texture. They're not quite as sweet as Fuji apples, but then maybe that's just the selection they had (or the one I had in particular). I like them!

Now I've got a whole chicken in the oven, because they were on sale and I've been craving rotisserie chicken. And obviously baking a chicken is not rotisserie, but for my craving it's close enough.

Comments

[corianderstem.livejournal.com]

So what did you think of the Lambrusco, anyway? After your initial shock you were able to drink it? *g*

I stopped at QFC on the way home, and honeycrisp apples were $1.99 a pound. For what it's worth!

[corianderstem.livejournal.com]

.... maybe they were $2.99. Man. I was so sure they were $1.99 when I posted the reply, and now I totally don't know. Ha!

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

One thing that might've made a difference was that the ones at FM were organic. But at the farmer's market today the organic ones were only $2/lb. So FM was just overpriced.

As for the Lambrusco, I liked it, especially initially. But as with any alcohol, whenever I drink more than a few sips, it starts to taste more alcoholic and therefore not as appealing to me. So even though I wasn't having all the negative effects, the general alcoholic taste still bothered me -- which is good to know. I kind of had always thought that if I didn't have all the other stuff, alcohol wouldn't bother me, but that wasn't the case. Still, the Lambrusco was definitely sweeter and much better than other wines I've had.

[noelleleithe.livejournal.com]

Yay for honeycrisps! :)

(Granny Smiths are my favorite year-round apples -- thus the icon -- but I swear I eat my weight in honeycrisps during the fall. Yummmmmmm.)