oyceter | (no subject)

Wow, I feel like it's been a while since I wrote up a food post.

Food highlights of last week include meeting up with

laurashapiro and other people not on LJ, watching Buffy S7 (alas, the beginning of the long slogging part). Everyone brought food, mostly lots and lots of cheese and bread (yay!). One person made a Moroccan pie with filo dough and butter and chicken and spices and OMG it was so good except I don't remember the name of it. But it was tasty! And I brought over heirlooms (I cannot believe there are still heirlooms at the market), bread, praline spread, and

jonquil's marvelous raspberry jam, which everyone agreed was quite divine.

At work, I discovered the joys of Hershey's Special Dark Truffles, which while not being fancy and Swiss are still very good. I also discovered that eating approximately five in a row makes me slightly sick to the stomach. On the other hand, this didn't prevent me from doing the exact same thing the next day. Truffles trump learning curve?

Today, I went to a little sushi/izakaya place with excellent sushi and izakaya food (

rachelmanija, I will take you there next time you are in the area! You will like it!), in which I had kabocha croquettes, yaki onigiri, assorted sushi, roasted gingko nuts still in cracked and salted shells (really good), kimchi tofu soup, and something called age mochi. It's basically agedashi tofu, except with sticky rice instead of the tofu, and it's hot and flavorful and sticky and chewy and so good! I was quite happy.

Unfortunately, I seem to be getting sick (again), so my nose isn't working so well. Otherwise, I would probably be raving about the food even more than I am now.

Threaded | Flat

From my reading of Claudia Roden, I think that Moroccan thing is called bistilla or pastilla (depending on who is doing the transliteration), and I'm v envious, because it sounds delicious and I've never had it, North African restaurants in London seeming to rely heavily on couscous as their signature dish. (On which subject, Woes! the Algerian restaurant near here, which had been going for nearly 30 years, has gone, cry Woes! Woes!)

Heh, I've had salted roasted gingko nuts but they were not to my taste. But the other stuff sounds very good. Especially the Moroccan pie. I adore Middle Eastern foods.

Yesterday I went to Hollywood to visit Amoeba and buy Supernatural DVDs cheap, and sat down at Sanamluang Cafe for a quite late lunch. The waitress, who remembers me well even though it's been three years since I lived in the neighborhood and went there regularly, reminded me that I had the barbecued pork (ie, Chinese sausage, deep-fried belly pork, and cha siu-style sliced pork) over rice last time (like, three months ago!), and would I like that again?

I was about to say yes when I noticed, at the next table, a plate of rice and deep-fried pork and Chinese broccoli with a supremely delicious-looking fried egg on top, with the edges all golden and bubbled-crisp, as restaurants can do (probably because they have a deep-fryer) but I can't. I ordered that.

The egg was indeed crisp around the edges with the deep orange yolk perfectly liquid, so it could spill into the rice and pork and broccoli, all of which was moistened with a garlicky soy sauce and a touch of vinegar. It was exactly as good as it looked.

The Moroccan pie is called b'stilla. I finished off the last of it this week. P. can cook!

So glad you made it. It was great to meet you in person.

Sorry to hear you're unwell. ): At least you have truffles to comfort you.

Mmmm, food post. (I'm about to finally eat something, so I'm more susceptible than usual to your foodie wiles. ^_^)

Good luck fighting off the attempted-sick! *sympathies*

Moroccan pie with filo dough and butter and chicken and spices

Mmm, chicken bastilla. I need to learn how to make that -- I've had it a couple of times and loved it.