Lemon garlic herb salmon with a side salad.

Salmon filet with Lemon juice, garlic and Trader Joe's Everyday Spices on both sides. I put this under the broiler for 4 minutes on each side. I didn't use any olive oil on the filet and was a bit worried at first, but actually really like how it turned out.

I topped the salmon with another squeeze of lemon juice and had a side salad of Romaine lettuce, candied pecans, tomatoes, red onion and an Italian dressing of sorts.

This meal was awesome. I only had half of the salmon and saved the rest. I have to say though--I could have scarfed it all down! This was one of the best salmon filets I've ever had and SO easy to make!

Lettuce wrap tacos, four ways.

Left to right: Fish, grilled veggies, chorizo & poato, shredded beef.

These were all taco fillings I got to-go from Tacolicious, but since I don't like tortillas, I decided to eat them with romaine leaves! This was very Korean of me, where it's called ssam (쌈). So so great! I don't get the appeal of tortillas and I feel bad saying that, but this is healthier and adds a nice crispness, while not taking away from the flavorful filling!

Salmon, asparagus and bell peppers in a lemony honey mustard marinade.

Lemon juice, lemon peel, garlic, honey, mustard, crack black pepper.

I got a big bag of red, yellow and orange bell peppers and asparagus from Costco and I've been thinking of different things to do with them. I marinated the veggies and a piece of salmon in this lemon concoction and stuck it all in the oven. Out came this beauty! :) It was really yummy--it had been far too long since I had salmon! :)

Post Bake Sale, pre Inception sushi at Kyoto Sushi, Van Ness, SF.

Missooooo.

Cherry Blossom roll - tuna over salmon with avocado roll.

Barracuda - spicy hamachi, green onions, tempura roll.

Poki roll - cold seaweed salad over spicy tuna roll.

Sunset roll - Parmesan cheese, garlic sauce and salmon baked over California roll.

Everything was really good. I really like this place. It had been too long since I was there. The service isn't the quickest, but the food is good and reasonably priced. It was perfect because we had an hour to kill before seeing Inception at AMC Van Ness!

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Food Bloggers Luncheon at Waterbar, Embarcadero, SF.

I was invited out to Waterbar for a food bloggers lunch hosted by We Blog The World and Pearltrees.com.

Waterbar is fun little restaurant between the Ferry Building and the AT&T Ball Park. It has ana amazing view of the Bay Bridge and some lovely aquarium columns in the center of the restaurant. It was the last day of Dine About Town so we had a lovely prix fixe menu (click on the photo to read the text). I love that the menu states who caught the fish!

I enjoyed this presentation of the butter, on a granite tile, with sea salt on top.

Amuse bouche: cold soup shots.

I didn't are so much for this. I like gazpachos, but other than that, I'm not a big chilled soup fan.

Cornmeal Crusted Smelts, endive, radish, green goddess. The smelts were nice, but I didn't care much for the salad and the sauce lacked flavor.

Baby Artichoke Salad, fava beans, sweet peas, Grana Padano.

I think I should have went with this as my first course. :)

Alaskan Halibut, roasted beets, sugar snap peas, orange.

I'm afraid I didn't care mush for this dish either. The fish was cooked fine, but everything was a bit bland. I really enjoyed the texture and crunch of sugar snap peas though and the beets were fine on their own, but none of the flavors were were strong enough to bring the dish together.

Whitefish, broccoli rabe, roasted cherry tomato vinaigrette.

This dish looks more flavorful. I should have gone with this one--darn! :)

Black and White Ice Cream Cake, dulce de leche creme fraiche, bananas.

I will say right now that I 100% chose the right dessert! I loved this. The dulce de leche creme fraiche could have used more flavor, but the ice cream sandwich and fried bananas were divine!

Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble, vanilla ice cream.

I really have to be in the mood for strawberry rhubarb, so this isn't my ideal dessert, but it does look tasty.

BIG thank you, again, to We Blog The World and Pearltrees.com! Everyone, please check them out--seriously, very cool stuff!

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Must try: The Burger Lounge at The Four Seasons, Downtown, SF.

I was invited out to The Four Seasons restaurant to try their The Burger Lounge, which launched just last month. So get this--on Sundays and Mondays, you can order a burger, fries AND a cocktail/wine pairing for just $20. Amazing. I ordered the Duck Fat Burger and chose to get the cocktail pairing--this huge, delicious coffee cocktail that I would definitely get again.

We started with the tuna tartare. This tartare has great flavor and texture balances.

Olive platter: pickled olives, fried cheese-stuffed olives, olive tapenade. I had never seen fried olives before, but this was brilliant! They could have used a tiny bit more cheese, but such a great idea. The tapenade was really fantastic, too. It had the perfect saltiness to it.

Duck Fat Burger with pickles, perfectly crisp fries, peppercorn ranch spread/dip. These burgers are no small feat!

Yes, that would be thick, delicious slabs of pork belly in their BLT! Un-real. The pork belly was so tender and succulent--it really added to the burger and tasted amazing. I actually preferred this burger to the Duck Fat Burger, although they were both SO good. After the appetizers I couldn't even get through half of my burger, but was excited to wrap it up for later!

We finished with the Fondue plate. The Four Seasons has a new pastry chef for NYC that I'm going to get the scoop on soon! He's created a few new dishes and just take a look at the photo--do I even need to say anything?!

On one side you have fresh berries, and on the other you have a mix of two-bite brownies, marshmallows, rice crispies, and the most amazing banana bread I've ever had in my life. And then you get to dunk it all in warm caramel and/or a heavenly dark chocolate sauce! Now that's what I call a fun, fantastic dessert. :)

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Weird Fish, Mission, SF.

Photo from fryhole, posted by Kira S. on Yelp.

I didn't have my camera with me because I went for a run before, but my friend Judith and I decided to try Weird Fish after some hardcore thrift shopping in the Mission!

We each got a fish taco with mango salsa and then we shared the mashed yams with coconut milk, and an order of fries! The yams were super interesting. They weren't my favorite, and were kind of the same consistency as pumpkin pie. I don't like my food that pureed. The fries looked awesome, but weren't crispy enough for me--a bit soggy. The taco was nice though!

The space itself is so so cute. I love it there. It's the perfect size for a little spot in the Mission, the prices are right and the service was great. :)

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Post Dr. Nakamats Japanese dinner at Sushi Boom, Lower Fillmore, SF.

Ahhh! The Inventiona of Dr. Nakamats! Amazing film! Hilarious and quirky and entertaining. It was playing at the great SF International Film Festival 2010. View the trailer here! After watching this, I was starving, and definitely up for some Japanese!

We decided to bypass Japantown Center and head to Sushi Boom! I'd been meaning to check out their bento box, since I couldn't last time. I got the salmon teriyaki, which is $8 for lunch, and $13 for dinner! Still a great deal because you get miso soup (not pictured) and then all of this! Everything was pretty good, too--great even for the deal!

We also got this roll--the Volcano roll--which came out hot. :( I don't really like hot sushi rolls and neither of us thought it would come out hot. V disappointing. I don't know why, it didn't add anything to the roll and I really think it would have been better cold!

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Brunch at Crepevine, Pacific Heights, SF.

Near: California crepe with smoked salmon, capers, spinach, cheese and honey mustard.

Far: Pumpkin spice pancakes.

We shared both of these and it was really filling. The crepe was pretty good, but not my favorite. The pancakes were horrible. They were dry, cold and lacking any flavor. The space is a lot bigger than that it looks from the outside. It reminds me of Squat & Gobble, but I prefer S & G.

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Korean American Thanksgiving Feast 2009, S. Hill, Spokane.

It all started with our hostess (in purple) and a bunch of empty serving platters. Asian Thanksgivings are always an interesting mix of Asian and American food. :)

And then we arranged this appetizer tier to nibble on while everything else finished cooking. The mini jalapeno-cheddar cornbread muffins on the bottom are mine!

Getting the ham ready for the final bake!

My parent's seafood dish.

String bean casserol.

Asian fish dish.

Korean japchae. My mother's friend, who I hadn't seen in about 5 years made this and made it vegetarian because she remembered that I was! Aw, bless her! But I had to break it to her that I haven't been a vegetarian in almost 3 years now!

Korean vegetable and egg pancakes.

A spicy Korean chicken and potato dish.

Bacon wrapped asparagus!

Corn bread stuffing.

The ham, was our turkey this year! First Thanksgiving without a turkey, but I don't love turkey so it was okay. :)

Baked salmon with lemon, capers and a cream sauce. This was my favorite part of the meal!

The whole spread.

I'm so thankful for good eats. ;)

Dinner at Roebling Tea Room, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Pickled plate special.

Please excuse the dim lighting! No-flash is more classy. ;) In any case, the pickled cauliflower was my favorite. ;)

Arugula Etc. with walnut, gorgonzola, honey & pear

This was actually with grapefruit, which was diiiivine.

Poke special.

Mmmmmmmmmmm. I love raw fish. I can't believe I refused to eat it for so long.

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Lake trip, Coeur d'Alene, ID.

Kitchy cabin kitchen. ;)

Beautiful porch table. Perfect weather.

Fiiiish. Nowell is a pesca-vegan. Very peculiar, but it works for him and we got to eat fish, so it works for me! :)

Mmmmm. I think this night was cod with peach mango salsa.

Simple salad with goat cheese (not for Nowell, of course). :)