July 19, 2009

Food update:

• Chocolate-chip cookies from scratch: tasty, sweet but substantial, lots of butter. If I’m going to cook something time-intensive I generally go for savory/salty over sweet, so this was a first attempt at baking a dessert that didn’t come from a pre-made mix. Definitely an upgrade over store-bought cookies (see: photo).
• Lentil soup with spinach: pretty good, a little bland. Soup is the best way to eat carrots and celery; I think there is too much weird flavor when they are raw. This recipe needs more flavor though. Maybe the optional smoked pork or ham provides that.
• “Pucker Powder”: a 34” tube of flavored sugar (horrifying website, by the way). So far, sour white (why not green?) apple, pink lemonade, and sweet root beer are good. Guava and kiwi are disgusting. Bubblegum tastes like Juicy Fruit or something, which I also find gross.
• Chocolate-covered bacon: Someone at work made this for a party. Tastes exactly like it sounds but still manages to be unexpected.
• Ferry Plaza Farmers Market: busy, lots of plums/peaches/nectarines and veggibles. Recommend peanut brittle and Indian food for the free samples in addition to all of the fruits. Picked up some Acme bread. It’s good, but I haven’t developed a taste for high-qual bread; they’re all about equally delicious to me.

Tune in next time for lentil tacos and something with quinoa. Also I will try to update gradually. Massive text-dumps are not very tumblr-like, I know.