Weekend notes: no riding.
Nov. 10th, 2008 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gayathriYea, so it rained on saturday. I even went out, but the rain started to get so bad my gloves got soaked through, and when another car threw up a sheet of water on my leathers, I came home. *sad*
Friday night was fun tho! Dinner at the counter at Chez Papa, 'cause Chez Maman was full, and none of the other potrero places were available. We split a couple of petit assiettes, the potato salad with asparagus, the calamari with a baked crumb topping, and the _foie gras_ - I think they flash fried it - it had a crispy outside, and the center was still cold and so so fatty. the mouthfeel on it was really amazing - hot and crisp on the outside, and the cold foie in the middle. It was served with carmelized fruit - sort of like Alembic's Foie Gras and Jelly, but with fruit.
My date found my enjoyment amusing, but put up with it. We split the steak with carmalized onions, which also was ossm - carmelized in butter for a long time, the onions were so buttery on top of an equally rich and nicely done medium rare steak.
Too full for dessert, we headed off into the sunset. The rest of the evening was pretty much just as I'd hoped. :)
Morning comes, gloomy and sad, I'm already depressed at the lack of sunlight and the water falling from the sky.
I get a txt from jong: "Dear Gayathri, please show that you love us and come have brunch, Love, Us"
Manipulative, yes, but I was so bummed by the weather I said yes. Brunch at HOME! *sigh* mushroom and goat cheese scramble!
Smooches all around, I decide I"M GOING RIDING! its merely misting, you see. head home get on the gear, get on the bike, get onto the freeway heading to Alice's Resturant...
and the sky opens up and it starts _pouring_.
I can't see, and then cars are passing me, dumping more water on me. My gloves are soaked thru, so I turned around and went home. You couldnt tell I was crying because there was water inside my helmet too.
Prehaps retail therapy would help! I bought a few copies of Middleman, and went to Bed Bath and Beyond to get more sheets. Apparently everyone ELSE wanted to go to BBaB. Yicks.
Home again to watch more Middleman and drink coffee, and ended up in a long IM conversation. Headed on over to byronium's to watch the gang play video games until we had to leave to go to the Sisters of Prepetual Indulgence's fundraiser at Wild Side West. Saw sfracerx, donated some money and escaped to have burgers and fries.
An early night, got up the next day, picked up the ingredients for scones and headed to Park Place for a mellow long morning, hanging out, reading books, and commiserating over prop 8.
Picked up ingredients and went back to byronium 's for a massive cookfest - he made chili and chicken soup and I chopped a lot of things. I really enjoy cooking, and I love cooking with someone. I'm glad to have people who like cooking with me too.
Dinner was fun, more video games and another fairly early night.
Friday night was fun tho! Dinner at the counter at Chez Papa, 'cause Chez Maman was full, and none of the other potrero places were available. We split a couple of petit assiettes, the potato salad with asparagus, the calamari with a baked crumb topping, and the _foie gras_ - I think they flash fried it - it had a crispy outside, and the center was still cold and so so fatty. the mouthfeel on it was really amazing - hot and crisp on the outside, and the cold foie in the middle. It was served with carmelized fruit - sort of like Alembic's Foie Gras and Jelly, but with fruit.
My date found my enjoyment amusing, but put up with it. We split the steak with carmalized onions, which also was ossm - carmelized in butter for a long time, the onions were so buttery on top of an equally rich and nicely done medium rare steak.
Too full for dessert, we headed off into the sunset. The rest of the evening was pretty much just as I'd hoped. :)
Morning comes, gloomy and sad, I'm already depressed at the lack of sunlight and the water falling from the sky.
I get a txt from jong: "Dear Gayathri, please show that you love us and come have brunch, Love, Us"
Manipulative, yes, but I was so bummed by the weather I said yes. Brunch at HOME! *sigh* mushroom and goat cheese scramble!
Smooches all around, I decide I"M GOING RIDING! its merely misting, you see. head home get on the gear, get on the bike, get onto the freeway heading to Alice's Resturant...
and the sky opens up and it starts _pouring_.
I can't see, and then cars are passing me, dumping more water on me. My gloves are soaked thru, so I turned around and went home. You couldnt tell I was crying because there was water inside my helmet too.
Prehaps retail therapy would help! I bought a few copies of Middleman, and went to Bed Bath and Beyond to get more sheets. Apparently everyone ELSE wanted to go to BBaB. Yicks.
Home again to watch more Middleman and drink coffee, and ended up in a long IM conversation. Headed on over to byronium's to watch the gang play video games until we had to leave to go to the Sisters of Prepetual Indulgence's fundraiser at Wild Side West. Saw sfracerx, donated some money and escaped to have burgers and fries.
An early night, got up the next day, picked up the ingredients for scones and headed to Park Place for a mellow long morning, hanging out, reading books, and commiserating over prop 8.
Picked up ingredients and went back to byronium 's for a massive cookfest - he made chili and chicken soup and I chopped a lot of things. I really enjoy cooking, and I love cooking with someone. I'm glad to have people who like cooking with me too.
Dinner was fun, more video games and another fairly early night.
