Good food I've had lately

Looking through my iPhone, I realized how many pictures of food I have. Which should be unsurprising really, given the fact that I'm a foodie and any delicious meal gone undocumented is quite a regretful experience. SO I decided that I'd create a post/compilation of all the good food I've had lately! Prepare yourself for some tasty pictures...hereeeee we go!

Fat Face Popsicles: Mango Sticky Rice and Rich Espresso Fudge (Off the Grid)

3-Sum Eats: Rice Krispy Crusted Fried Chicken Sandwich!! (Off the Grid)

BFF Breakfast: Mochas with whipped cream and giant cinnamon rolls :)

beef brisket sandwich with a side of coleslaw 

hot bowl of curry Pho

  homemade pizzas

a true breakfast of champions (made by yours truly)

froyo...what could be better

Made by my mother: a fresh tomato couscous salad  

Lovejoy's Tearoom fresh fruit, raisin scones, tea cookies, and a variety of small tea sandwiches!

bi rite re-runs

So it's been a while...a really, really long while.
And I'm just going to apologize for that right here and now. With all of our summer laziness, also came with the neglect of this beautiful food blog. What did our blog do to deserve such neglect?! Nothing, I tell you, but it's time for me to give it a little refreshment.
With all this neglect of updating our blog, there was another thing I was neglecting---visiting bi rite. yes, thats rite folks (ha), I probably hadn't been to bi rite since the last bi rite post I made on the blog!!


But I finally had a relapse; yesterday, after a long excruciating gymnastics workout, I made my way over there. Unsurprisingly, the line was incredibly long, but I had no hesitation to jump right in there.
After having my mind set on ordering the good ol' brownie sundae, my mind was forever changed when I got closer to the front. I saw they had a new sundae in store; "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Sounds rather elegant, yes? Not sure how an ice cream sundae can sound elegant and dainty, but bi rite was somehow able to do just that.
It was composed of ricanelas ice cream (one of my faves: cinnamon and snikerdoodle bits!!), chunks of home made coffee cake (sensing the elegance yet?), drizzled with caramel sauce and topped off with their house made whipped cream. YUM.

I'm pretty sure that if i hadn't just worked out for 4 hours, it would have been much more difficult to finish this thing. What confirmed this belief, was that the cashier asked if i wanted a second spoon. Like, he thought that I was planning on sharing a bi rite sundae with someone else. He didn't know that my true plan was to eat it on my own. I gave him a laugh and said no (awwwkward for him!!) And then went on my merry way to finish the sundae. In fact, I polished it off to the very melting parts at the bottom. 

It was very satisfying.

smitten

With our love of ice cream, when we heard about a pop up ice cream store in SF's own hayes valley, we just had to go. this wonderful store was called smitten. This creative little store made ice cream right in front of you! We had heard the stories--the instantaneous ice cream making, the liquid nitrogen, oh my!
And so we went one day on a whim. And as we drove up, the line down the square got our hopes up even more. We jumped out of the car, got in line, and waited. And waited. And waited. The liquid nitrogen freeze technique was great and was the whole point of this store BUT, took a really long time. This was unfortunate but we decided we would spend the time waiting wisely and choose our flavor. Unfortunatley, out of the three flavors offered that day, only two were left. 

strawberry goodness

We really wanted to try salted caramel but so did everyone before us and so by the time we got to the front, we had strawberry and vanilla left. We ordered one of each from a hipster holding an iPad who wrote the order on a colored post-it and gave us a poker chip. This clever method of order/pick up worked pretty well except that because we had ordered two flavors, we got them at two different times. 

kickin it old school--VANILLA

When we finally got them we had watched the twenty somethings who made the ice cream pour the giant bottles of unfrozen ice cream into tiny liquid nitrogen mixers to freeze countless times. Wait a minute... Liquid nitrogen, you say? WHAT? Yes. This liquid nitrogen is what makes Smitten really special. They freeze each ice cream order individually. They pour their magic ice cream mix into the mixer, get some gaseous liquid nitrogen and use their chemistry genius to freeze up some iced desserts.


We got the ice cream--eventually--and it was good. Small but delicious. And extra good because we saw it get frozen just for us.

bi rite creamery

There's something so ridiculously addicting about bi rite creamery. Their sundaes are just...I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THEM.

browine sundae: vanilla ice cream, spiced pecans, housemade brownies, chocolate sauce and whipped cream!!!

I will literally have my brother drive me across town at 9:30pm, on a school night, just to go have one of their sundaes.

see this sundae right down here? it's the s'mores sundae (a special!)

are you ready for this? it's toasted MARSHMALLOW, atop chocolate ice cream, house made graham cracker pieces and caramel sauce. 

...and I am so very proud to say that last week I finally made it through their whole sundae menu--that's right folks, I've tried every sundae on the bi rite menu. And then some!!

banana split: caramelized bananas, toasted walnuts, malted vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce and whipped cream!

everyone loves ice cream!

Last night, after an intense 4 hour session of gymnastics, Heather and I made our way over to Mitchell's Ice Cream! (http://www.mitchellsicecream.com/). The menu has an overwhelming amount of flavors (in a good way..) with everything from peanut butter indulgence (chocolate ice cream with swirls of peanut butter and peanut butter cups) to ube, which is purple yam!! Be warned: from the time you walk in until the time you exit, you will have changed your mind an inconceivable amount of times. Especially for indecisive people like myself, it is SO HARD to make a decision! I tried pumpkin, which tasted EXACTLY like pumpkin pie. No lies. Heather was contemplating getting the Mitchell's classic, grasshopper pie, which is mint ice cream with a fudge swirl and oreos. 

Finally, it was deciding time. Heather ended up getting espresso toffee crunch--espresso coffee with toffee candy and espresso chips!  I got "biscotti nocciole", which was hazelnut ice cream with chocolate-hazelnut swirls and biscotti. yummaaaay.

ice cream excites us!

espresso toffee crunch

can you sense the impatience in
my face? i just want to
eat my ice cream yo!

Heather's mom got pear sorbet...which tasted just like FROZEN PEARS! it was incredible!

So, conclusion of the day? we love us some ice cream.