Category Archives: food

retail shopping + my first watermelon of summer

I have come to realize which group of “retail therapy” shoppers I belong to. Some people purchase clothes. Some people are thrift shoppers. Some buy tchotchkes and cute little household items. When I am tired and need a pick me up, I hit up the grocery store. I know this because I was there twice today....

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brazil café, berkeley, california

// 2161 University Ave (between Shattuck Ave & Walnut St), Berkeley, CA 94704  **Tri-tip sandwich served with mango smoothie The sandwich at Brazil Café is well known for being awesome. It’s tri-tip, with onions and cilantro-garlic sauce and cheese and tomatoes and lettuce. And maybe some other things. I think the sandwich is okay, but mostly I’m a fan of...

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baked purple potato + garlic peeler

Really just a sliced purple potato, five sliced green onions (one bunch), five or six whole cloves of garlic, a quarter of a chopped red onion and about a tablespoon of olive oil baked at three fifty Fahrenheit for about 45 minutes and then sprinkled with salt and pepper. Seriously yummy and of course it...

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bakesale betty’s, oakland, california

| Facebook | RSS feed | Pinterest | Twitter | This place is the reason I like coleslaw. It’s probably also the reason I like fried chicken sandwiches at all and it might even be the reason a lot of people like fried chicken sandwiches. If the line that goes out the door and around the block every single day is any indication...

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a birthday dutch apple pie!

I actually ate this for breakfast. Not with ice cream, but still. It sat there on the stove looking like breakfasts I sometimes ate as a kid on weekend mornings and I just couldn’t say no. When Jessie requested Dutch Apple Pie as a birthday treat, I didn’t even know what it was. Who knew...

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