*miserychick is actually happy

It’s been almost a month-long eating marathon ever since we got to California about 4 weeks ago. As I am not yet a habitual food blogger, a lot of the yummy food goes undocumented, straight from the plate to my stomach. Here’s just a couple notable ones:

This sugary sin of a breakfast is called the Big Skinny Pancake, a specialty from Mon Ami Gabbi, a french restaurant at the Paris in Las Vegas. It’s a stack of 4 giant fluffy crepes topped with cherries that’s been doused in Chambord and chocolate sauce.

Nothing too special here about these tacos except that tacos in California kick ass.

For the 1-year anniversary of our wedding, I found a Thai restaurant in LA’s Thai Town that specializes in Northern Thai cuisine. The Yelp reviewers had great things to say and the pictures of the place looks as authentically tacky as a Thai restaurant could be, so we got a crew of 9 people and took over the place, eating a feast of Thai food enough to feed a small classroom. Pictures were taken just before we all devoured everything.

Nam-prik-oong is a tomato and pork based spicy paste, you eat it with fresh veggie. It looks innocent enough but caught most people by surprised.

Here’s the Yelp link for Spicy BBQ in Hollywood (at the corner of Santa Monica Blvd and Normandie).

Amongst other things I got for Christmas, this is one probably made me smile the most:

Vietti Barolo Castiglione 2005

For Christmas dinner, and in celebration of my mother-in-law’s newly purchased iron-cast dutch oven, I cooked my very-first beef stew ever: Beouf Bourguignon from Julia Child’s recipe. Like a whole bunch of suckers across America, I too was influenced by that Julie/Julia movie. It took 4+ hours and a lot of cooking tools, but was worth every single minute and effort:

Soon it’ll be time for a detox.

Posted on Sunday, 27 December 2009 at 14:13 UTC