So I met up with Jenny for the second day in a row. Yes, we love to go fooding together. Today, we decided to eat Thai at Khao down on High St. What a delicious decision. You really don't need to be a genius to figure out the main ingredient of the dish I picked. Peanut! Oh, how I love my peanut sauce. I ordered the vegetarian praram, which is vegies and tofu covered in peanut sauce. It was good, very good and healthy. It had the best mushrooms I've ever tasted - so juicy and full of flavour. I love my mushrooms. Really great tofu too. Really great tofu, you say? What kind of person loves tofu, you say? Well ha! I do. I like tofu. I think I might actually like it just as much as meat. I love the way they cooked it too - soft on the inside, springy on the outside. And that sauce, I could probably drink it straight. Actually, I have a feeling I may have done that at some point in my life. That wouldn't surprise me at all.
 My praram. I didn't photograph the rice. You all know what a mound of rice looks like.  Jenny ordered the Khao Rice. I forget the description but it had chicken, mung beans and peanut among other things. I am oh so informative.
After sitting in Khao until they kicked us out (closing time), Jenny and I headed to Michel's Patisserie after I saw their sign. I'd been wanting to go there after seeing it on the bus in Newmarket every day. Something with the word patisserie in their name has to be good. I wasn't wrong. They had an impressive and tasty display of cakes, tarts, brownies and cheesecakes. It's a pity they don't do tastings like gelato. How cool would that be? I can dream... I decided upon this....
 Tiramisu! One of my favourite desserts. This my friend was a favorable tiramisu. I consider a good tiramisu a nice melding of the different flavours where one does not overpower the other. This did just that and it wasn't sickly sweet. Jenny proclaimed that she could have eaten a whole tiramisu log. I would quite like to be there to witness that. I give this a thumbs up - tasty, moist and light.
This is Jenny's cake. It had a name starting with a C and ending with torte. I'll just call it a chocolate torte with almond and apricot. Delicious and moist with thick rich ganache. The tiramisu won though. As I write this I'm drinking hot chocolate and munching on banana and walnut loaf. I wanted to try a piece before Dad devoured the rest. It's a reasonable fear. He ate like half a loaf in one day! That's my excuse for eating yet more cake like food. Sugar, sugar, my terrible f(r)iend. My stomach already hates me so it's not gonna do much worse. I think there's something wrong with my digestion. My stomach hasn't been right in weeks. I don't know how to fix it. I'm trying to find the perfect eating regime, but have yet to appease the growling devil. Tell me, dear stomach, what shall I do? Most of you will look at me and say, "Uh, Lauren stop eating tiramisu and banana loaf, that might help." Maybe. But I don't know if that is the source of my problem. You see, even when I am not eating such delicacies, it still moans at me. I eat vegies, I eat fruit, I eat yoghurt, half my food is low-fat. I don't eat crazy things every day. I am somewhat disciplined. Maybe it is just going through a phase. I should just respect it and let it get on with it. I really should treat it better though. Do you know what I would really like lately? Out of season fruit like strawberries and raspberries. Sure, they have berries at the store but I doubt they are sweet and ripe. Oh, LA and your Farmer's Market on Fairfax, I miss you. Ripe golden raspberries in the middle of winter. Gotta love that Californian climate. Labels: chocolate, dessert, Thai |
