drafting a menu!

it feels like i’m planning cafe again, but on a more intimate and lovely scale.

We were speaking of lots of different dinner options, including spiced peppercorn pork in cream sauce (!), but then we have to be careful for those that can’t eat pork.

Anyways, I think I’m going to try my hand at flourless chocolate cake (from the recipes on the William Sonoma website), which will be exciting!

I went to East today for dinner after delivering a cupcake to my favorite physicist, and was pretty disappointed by the food.

( I think he enjoyed the cupcake!)

I mean, I don’t know why I was so impressed by it before, it must have been the decor that had me fooled. I guess I should have been more suspicious of the fact that they hold an entirely white serving staff in an asian fusion restaurant.

Anyways, I ordered the Thai green curry with chicken, thinking back to the lovely one I had at Real Thailand with Claire a while back, but I was severely disappointed! Instead of just having lovely bamboo shoots with the too-spicy, too-starchy sauce, they also incorporate alien ingredients like… fried tofu! and BROCCOLI!

It was a pretty unorthodox experience.

Needless to say, I was able to stomach about half of it…. Wing however, by some freak force of nature, decided to try and “save me face” by finishing it.

It looked terrible.

Honestly. Who puts broccoli and fried tofu in green curry? Who!?

I know I took this picture in the eating aftermath, but trust me, the presentation was nothing to be proud of either, although the conversation around us was well worth the time we spent there. We saw Shiftless, Jobless, Goldigging Diamond Ring Man with Librarian Glasses Jane, a couple that took two bites out of their salads and professed themselves full, Wing got himself our waitress’ name…

All in all though? Terrible. Terrible, terrible, terrible.

PS! I forgot to mention! The snowbanks are incredible!