since i'm going under the knife friday morning, i've treated myself to a few delicious last meals. this is not to say that i wouldn't have eaten this food anyway, but its more fun treating yourself to good food if you have a good reason.
first off, tuesday afternoon, right after i scheduled the surgery, lkm
and i went for tacos from la taqueria on mission @ 25thish. la taqueria truly does make the best tacos in the mission - a contentious statement, of course - as long as you get it done with cheese between the two corn torillas and grilled crispy. the carnitas is delicious. here lkm noshes on the stewed chicken. note that the other traditional dishes at la taqueria don't
stand up to the rest of the mission- only the super tacos do.
next, wednesday afternoon we had a hankering for cheeseboard pizza. but cheeseboard has terrible hours, so we went to arinells in berkeley. best simple new york slice of cheese in the bay. also had delicious tri-tip at a moses bbq wednesday night. found out at the bbq that yu looks exactly like his father... he just needs a beret.
thursday morning, lkm treated me to a pancake, bacon, and fresh fruit brunch. it was enough for two meals. so it was fine to skip lunch and hold off until dinner for burma superstar. lkm's sister alex joined us for this pre-op tradition. she was very "hangry" when she showed up- hungry and angry. so we promptly gorged ourselves on tea leaf salad, pumpkin pork curry, samusas, and yellow bean curry. all this burmese food is deliciously spiced... unique, flavorful, and not overpowering.
all this heavy food will not sit well with the month of inactivity i have planned. so thats it for last suppers. anyone have one of those electro-pulse exercise pads so i can sit on the couch and get ripped?
lkm went on a gardening spree this week. in clearing out a year's worth of weeds, she found that we had rosemary, lavender, and tyme plants in our front yard. she dried some out and used it for food. so with about 10 days left on our lease, we're just now settling into the place.
i bought a hammock in baja about 6 years ago and i've carried it from house to house with me in hopes of finding a good spot for it. its never been put up. i thought it would be when we moved into lundys lane. it sat on the "to do" list for the first month, then fell off our radar completely, eventually drowning alongside the note to paint over the pink cabinets. that never got done either... a fact that probably bothers lkm more than me (sometimes its good to be color blind). two days ago i finally put the hammock up. and its damn comfortable.
another thing i recently rediscovered is wednesday night at amnesia. met up with eb white, patrick, and ashley to see gaucho gypsy jazz band on wednesday. gaucho puts on a one-of-a-kind show, complete with fans in old tyme costumes dancing the lindy hop and jitterbug- a throw back to a time when no one looked like they knew how to dance. gaucho includes the infamous ralph carney who blows his top on a regular basis. the more i find out about this guy, the stranger he seems (proof: this 1983 B-52's show that he plays horn on).
