Tidbits

Sleepover at Ikea - Maybe this is the only way to get to the $1 early enough…
A ramen bath - Japanese spa with special baths resembling instant noodles. I wanna play!
Old age homes for dogs - 1) Old dogs don’t like to be abandoned at strange places. 2) Playing with young puppies will probably cause the older dogs to die faster due to exhaustion.
A remote-controlled pigeon - Oh the poor thing…
An article on a brilliant method of teaching grade schoolers about bats and rabies. I smell a lawsuit.
Will trade beer for Crumpler bags. Tempted by the beanbag and messenger bags…

Here Comes Summerlicious

July 13, 2006, 4:23 am

So the Summerlicious is upon us once more. Just a few months have passed since Winterlicious back in Feb. I am sad to say that I’ve lost faith in this food festival. Frankly, for the price, the food just isn’t that good. Last Sunday, I want to Auberge du Pommier with family and it wasn’t an entirely positive experience.

Appetizer:

Chilled Heirloom Tomato & Melon Gazpacho

avocado and peppered lime yogurt

or

Spinach Salade Provençal

sun dried tomato, Niçoise olives, toasted pine nuts and
basil pesto vinaigrette

Main:

Suprême de volaille

grilled chicken breast on a fricassée of fèves
and onions with a lemon verbena and honey fond

or

Roast Veal Striploin

endive and shaved pear salad with blue d’Auvergne cheese,
toasted walnuts, pickled onions and warm port wine jus vinaigrette

or

Tuna Pochée

olive oil poached yellow fin tuna on a crushed potato and parsley
salad with minted peas, candied lemon and shaved fennel

Dessert:

Steamed White Chocolate Pudding

Bonacini farm rhubarb and strawberry sorbet

or

Sour Cream Panna Cotta

pistachio crisps and blueberries

The soup was cold yogurt soup which I’m not particularly fond of. The spinach salad was simple, with too much dressing. The main course, the “Roast Veal Striploin” looked like roast beef, and wasn’t particularly interesting. Maybe I’m just not a fan of blue cheese, but that, combined with the onion, was actually gross. And none of us recognized the pear. We thought it was some tasteless lettuce thing. Dessert though, was pretty good, I have to admit.

Did I mention that there were flies in the restaurant?? A regular house fly and some fruit flies. Eep!

With this experience, plus the subpar one from Canoe, sigh, I don’t think I’ll be overly eager to participate in future ones unless the menu is that good. I think it is safe to assume that my family won’t be interested in anymore dinners. It was pretty amusing though, we had two tables of four, which they refused to put together, and so there was a table for two between us, and to the left of us in the row we were in. Let’s just say the the two tables remained unoccupied for the whole time we were there…

Apple Update

And yes, I am blogging this from my new iMac. I can’t say I’m used to it yet, and waiting for Adobe to release updated binaries to work with the Intel Macs. There are some cool things about Mac, but there are some things I find lacking. Not having a navigation tree is annoying. I am also having trouble connecting my cameras as drives so I can browse which files I want, instead of downloading all the photos off my camera.

And I miss Picasa and Textpad!

Crap, this version of Dreamweaver has a broken spellcheck! I also tend to type double letters on this mac keyboard…