Predinner snack at the gateway chalk art festival

A little snack to get me through house hunting

Cafe rio take out to movie in the park

Cute pick makes a little fruit an awesome snack

Somen and tempura. Max was a fan.

Mom's tonkatsu

Asian palace

For when we crave a giant bowl of noodles.
Followed by a trip to the asian store and 7-11 for treats.

Hot dog and s'mores party summer 2011

chow truck

We were starving. Eva was begging to "eat out." I looked up where the Chow Truck was. It was one block away. It was meant to be.

We ordered two of featured tacos, wild mushroom and beef, one pineapple ginger pork, two coconut lemongrass chicken, one order of Asian spiced root chips, and one tri color sesame cookie.

They gave us the cookie and started on our order. When they handed us our order they asked if they had ready given us our cookie. We had already gobbled it down :). They all laughed.

Eva loved it. She said when you are super hungry things taste really good. There are so many veggies on the tacos and my kids love them. Which just makes me think if they are prepped right, kids will eat them. Or maybe it's because it's sold out of a truck with a catchy name like chow truck.

Love the concept. Love the food.

Cookout in the mountains

Grilled food tastes better. It's a fact. We had a s'mores fest for dessert. Along with the regular graham crackers and Hershey's, we added ritz crackers, reese's peanut butter cups, mint patties, nutella, raspberry jam, and caramello. The winner was ritz with 1/2 a reese's with a roasted marshmallow then wrapped in foil and heated again.

Iceberg

Chocolate cashew is my favorite.

La puente, I love you

Smothered burrito, cheese no onions.

Coupon for kristi and whoever.

Found this on twitter:

http://www.joann.com/static/MarthaStewartCrafts/MSC-Coupon.pdf

tastes good, feels good

Sometimes you have to compromise taste for health or health for taste. But on this meal of rice, miso soup, nato, and vegetables, there is no comprise. I love my mom's food.

sunday roast

My mom has been making this recipe since I could remember: one giant roast, one can cream of mushroom, one can of French onion. It makes gravy for the rice and potatoes and basically falls apart without a knife. A total comfort food. Tonight, it was courtesy of April.

breakfast seems like an early morning dessert

Eva got French toast, Sam got a pancake. Drenched in syrup, they just seem like white flour sugar sponges. I ordered the Picadilly fries, like battered fried mashed potato nuggets. But ended up eating a ton of every one else's food, too. All of our food was actually pretty tasty.

Mid morning snack: Sundae Drumstick.

eat in nevada, sleep in utah

Chorizo noodle soup (pretty good, but only need to order it once in my life), caesar salad (boring, with boring bottled dressing), chicken fried steak (super boring with el blando gravy), and chili (pretty tasty, the kiddos gobbled it up and the cornbread was like dessert). Some places, you go to eat there. Some places, you eat there because you went there.

icecream cones

So, maybe the day was so educational that I needed two of these to help take the edge off.

complimentary "carb"inental breakfast

Where Samuel indulged in rice krispies with no milk.

El Rancherito in Delta

I have missed good Mexican food. This place in Nowhereville, UT was surprisingly delicious. When my Jose Special said, "enough for two" I knew it was enough for me :). Kind of a taco salad, I shared with the kiddos. With my giant plate, bits of my parents' food, and a few sips of my mom's Senorial Sangrita, all my wildest Mexican food dreams came true. Maximus went crazy at the sight of all that food and Karl indulged him in rice and avocado.

In-n-out again and a Dunford donut

One of my biggest Utah weaknesses, Dunford Donuts. Maximus makes a great French fry holder.

Nielson's frozen custard

Went to Daniel's school play and then to Nielson's afterward. The vanilla is the best.

In n out

It's on our list. The whole family drove out. A late night burger party.

First meal back in UT

My mom's food is the best. To welcome us back, she made us koroke, my favorite comfort food.

To Eat in UT

Going to be in UT for a while. The list of places I have missed is pretty long. And as my cravings change the list gets longer.

So, with moms food obviously what I miss the most, here is my list so far. (I'm thinking the weight that this Kauai sun helped melt off won't be staying off. All for a good cause, though).

To Eat in UT:
Green papaya
Myung ga
Asian palace
Red ginger
Cafe Rio
La puente
Morelia
Thai orchid
Bakers de normandie
Chow truck
In n out
Italian village
Dasks
Settabellos

I want to try:
Ruby snap
Frida

Ani's home: home cooked feast

Man, Ani can cook. And her presentation made the food all the more delicious. These photos don't do it justice.
Two kinds fish, cooked Chinese style. Just putting the ti leaves on the platter made such an impact.
Awesome potato salad (for some reason I am incapable of making good potato salad), a beautiful soba salad with sesame dressing, burgers with all the fixings, rice, and ahi poke that she made herself. The best poke I have had so far. I need lessons on picking out ahi. I am afraid.
Dessert was Lilikoi chiffon cake and banana cream pie.
My little ritzy minty s'mores looked so hill billy next to all the fancy food.
The photos don't do it justice. Loved it.

Ani's house

Man, Ani can cook. And her presentation made the food all the more delicious. These photos don't do it justice.

Two kinds fish, cooked Chinese style. Just putting the ti leaves on the platter made such an impact.

Awesome potato salad (for some reason I am incapable of making good potato salad), a beautiful soba salad with sesame dressing, burgers with all the fixings, rice, and ahi poke that she made herself. The best poke I have had so far. I need lessons on picking out ahi. I am afraid.

Dessert was Lilikoi chiffon cake and banana cream pie.

My little ritzy minty s'mores looked so hill billy next to all the fancy food.

The photos don't do it justice. Loved it.