Asian brunch at Thai Noodle Jump, Inner Richmond, SF.

Deep Fried Chicken Fried Rice?!! Whaaaat?! Out of control!

21. Tom Yum Gai Soup Hot and sour soup with chicken, shrimp, lemon grass, galangal, tomato, and mushrooms.

Mmmmmm. We ordered it with the flat vermicelli noodles.

63. Thai Hot Basil Choice of chicken, pork, or beef with bamboo strips and basil.

Yummy.

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Pat's awesome mapo tofu.

Mmmm! Yummy cubes of tofu with ground pork. Good job, Pat. Seriously way yummy. :)

Asqew Grill, Upper Haight, SF.

Chicken skewer with couscous.

Steak skewers with mashed potatoes.

Southwestern salad. Didn't love it.

BBQ burger. This was okay.

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Hosting the SFS Team Outing: Three Papaya's Brunch & Screen-printing at Levi's Workshop, Mission, SF.

I hosted my first SF Station team event! It was very exciting and I want to give a special thanks to everyone who came out and made it a success!

Papaya Salad at Three Papayas. Ta-wei, Vivienne and Matty at the Three Papaya's treated us to two of these! So sweet!

One of the specials, a lotus root salad with chicken. Mmmmm.

Another one of the specials! The pig's head with Spanish rice and a fried egg. This is apparently a Filipino dish and was very interesting!

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After brunch we all headed over to the Levi's Workshop for some excellent screen-printing! I surprised the crew with a special illustration made by our current SF Station Local Artist, Charmaine Olivia! Thank you, Charmaine, for the amazing illustration! And a special thanks to Levi's Workshop and Turner PR for making this all happen!!!

My bossman, Chris, workin' the screen!

Our amazing screen-printing pro, Henrik! Thank you for everything! He is holding up the first part/color of our print.

Here is a photo of my finished t-shirt! You can see the other layer here (in gray). I LOVE what Charmaine designed for us and love how it looks screen-printed! I'm so happy with how today went and can't wait to plan more events!

Eggplant, chicken and vegetable fried rice.

This was pretty great. I used my special Asian sauce with rice, egg, eggplant, chicken, baby corn, broccoli, green beans, black pepper. This was great! :)

Whenever I make fried rice I cook rice in my rice maker like normal. Then I cook the egg first and then set it aside. Then anything else that needs to be cooked separately like chicken and eggplant. Next, everything else. Then I mix in the rice and sauce and add the cooked egg last.

Pomegranate pesto pecan chicken salad.

I used chicken, pomegranate seeds, some pesto, mayo, a little lemon juice, salt and pepper.

This was an experiment and I enjoyed it. The sweet meets savory was a nice mix and it was good plain, but also nice between bread.

Veggies, eggplant and chicken stir-fry with a spicy orange sauce.

Frooooozen veggies! I have mixed feelings on frozen veggies, but it's been hard being on foot and picking up fresh groceries all the time! I decided to give this batch a try.

With some saved eggplant and chicken from yesterday, all with a spicy orange sauce.

Trader Joe's BBQ Chicken Salad.

I LOVE this salad. I love it. It's the best cheap, take-away version of the original BBQ chicken salad from California Pizza Kitchen. I have about one or two of these a week because they're yummy, they're a filling mix of protein and veggies, and because sometimes I don't have time to cook! :)

Eggplant chicken Jalfrezi.

I'm awful and go easy by getting a rotisserie chicken. Here it is, pulled apart. This will be used for a few recipes coming up in the next few days.. :)

One eggplant, sliced up.

And pan fried with a little olive oil and water until soft.

Then mixed with Jalfrezi curry sauce and chicken.

And not my best plating, but I was in a rush to eat and run out the door! Haha. So here it is, over rice. The eggplant was sooo soo nice. I really do love eggplant. The curry sauce was nice, too, but I think I prefer Jalfrezi cold, with my curry chicken salad!

Mexican at Camacho's, LAX, LA.

SFO to LAX. LA is soooooo flat! And gigantic! Yay super Korean family weekend! :) We're mainly in town for big brother's pre-wedding logistics: venues, wedding party, caterers, etc. ;) Here's my brother's fiance's wedding blog!

I had an hour to kill before my parents arrived, and of course was hungry so I decided to be very LA and get some Mexican! ;)

It's true, even the bad airport Mexican in LA is very good. This was an awesome taco salad with great guac and super yummy chicken. Really wonderful for airport food, and actually just a really nice basic taco salad. I definitely haven't had a better taco salad at a fast food joint.

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Roommate's chicken noodle soup.

My roommates made this super delicious chicken noodle soup with linguini! I've been feeling a cold come on and the weather in SF has been ick, so this was perfect. Thanks so much, guys! :)

Teriyaki chicken stir-fry with veggies, pineapple and cashews.

So I only had a small pot, so I did the veggies separately.. haha. Red onions, obviously. :)

Red, green, yellow bell peppers!

Celery.

Add teriyaki sauce, the rest of my rotisserie chicken (Gosh, I got good use out of that!), pineapple chunks, and cashews.

Finished. There was SO much of this--I filled two things of tupperware to freeze and then one to eat with rice later. :)

I'm a BIG fan of cooking and freezing! Also, if you notice, I go grocery shopping and get some basic veggies, etc, and use them in several different ways. It keeps costs down and challenges you to get creative!

Here's how I used my last groceries:

• Bell peppers: BBQ chicken sandwich, Teriyaki stir-fry
• Rotisserie chicken: Curry chicken salad, Sandwich, Teriyaki stir-fry
• Pineapple: Carrot cake cupcakes, Teriyaki stir-fry
• Celery: Curry chicken salad, Teriyaki stir-fry
• Red onion: BBQ chicken sandwich, Teriyaki stir-fry
• Cashews: Curry chicken salad, Teriyaki stir-fry

BBQ chicken sandwich on Dutch crunch.

Left: BBQ ranch sauce, rotisserie chicken, pepper.

Right: smoked gouda, shredded pepper-jack, red onion, greed & red bell pepper.

Both on Dutch crunch, and into the oven you go! The trick with store bought Dutch crunch is to bake it.

Baked, then topped with tomato (I could have baked those, too, but decided not to) and romaine lettuce.

Hot (delicious!) mess of a sandwich! Love.

Casual rooftop lunch: Applees & brie, curry chicken salad lettuce cups, carrot cake cupcakes.

Apple slices and triple cream brie. Very nice brie.

Curry chicken salad: rotisserie chicken, diced apples, celery, currants, cashews, Jalfrezi curry sauce. This is one of my faves. I decided to switch it up a bit by using this as a filling for lettuce cups!

The cupcakes were from my previous post. Such a fun, tasty lunch for such a beautiful day!

Chinese with the girls at House of Nanking, Chinatown, SF.

Calamari dish. It was flavorful, but I'm a sauce girl.. I like having sauce. I'll warn now that this is the best photo though--the restaurant is just so dark!

The amazing eggplant dish! This is always my favorite there. It's excellent.

Black bean tofu. This was good, but the tofu chunks were a little too big.

Sesame chicken with sweet potatoes. This was pretty yummy, but I guess nothing really compares to the eggplant dish here.

House noodles. These were recommended, but were bland and just not good. No one at our table liked them.

I wanted to take AR here because the eggplant dish is so great and they have a lot of vegetarian dishes, but it was hit and miss. I would go back, but not for awhile.

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Dinner at La Mediterranee, Pacific Heights, SF.

Middle Eastern Plate ___________________________________________________ 12.25

Combination of Chicken Cilicia, Grecian Spinach & Feta, Levant Sandwich & Lamb Lule or Chicken Pomegranate

I love, love, love this plate at La Med. I always get it with the chicken pom and salad. You get a lot of variety and different flavors. The chicken pomegranate with rice, and the cinnamon in the Chicken Cilica are just fantastic! All for $12.50, too, which is a find in this city!

I always bring visitors here and they always love it. Right now I'm hosting my friend Arielle from NYC, so the next few days will have some yummy eats!

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Curry chicken salad flatbread at Twigs, Wandamere, Spokane.

I always see this on the menu and have wanted to try it. Much to my surprise, it came out like this rather than flatbread pizza style, which is what I was expecting. It was definitely a Twigs hit! :) And, yes, Twigs is kind of the only restaurant in North Spokane. ;)

Dinner at Twigs, Wandamere, Spokane.

Asian chicken salad. This was really nice. The chicken is sesame seed-crusted! I don't really like sesame seeds or chicken, but this was sooo yummy! They didn't taste like sesame seeds at all, but gave a unique crusting to the perfectly tender chicken.

Seared & curried ahi tuna sandwich. I really wanted this to be amazing, but it just wasn't. I like the whole idea of it and the pita they use was really lovely, but the flavor just wasn't there. Saying "curried" says boldly flavored, but this was bland. :(

Thai peanut sauce pizza with chicken. Nothing I'd order again. The Thai pizza at CPK and at Rock City are just so much better.

Overall--Twigs is still hit and miss in my book. At least there are hits though, right? Slowly, but surely figuring them out.. :)

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Dinner with Caitie at Twigs, Wandermere, Spokane.

Twigs has really yummy fries and gorgonzola dip.

I got this teriyaki chicken pita and caesar salad. This was the best thing I've ever had at Twigs. Usually I'm dissapointed with the food, but this was very good. I don't love chicken though! I always seem to think I'll like it if I keep trying it, but no.. next time, I'll get this vegetarian!

Caitie's yumy chicken blue cheese pizza.

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