August 23, 2006
Aggie and her love for plums
Two days ago Aggie ate a bunch of plums while I wasn't paying attention. She loves fruit, especially apricots, plums and pears. Normally I only let her eat two plums a day. Today, she pooped out 6 pits at one time. It was gross.
Posted by meloknee at 05:27 PM | Comments (7)
October 14, 2005
A good calzone.
If anyone knows where I can get a good calzone in Seattle, please let me know. Nothing fancy, just deep fried dough filled with cheese, pepperoni, olives, peppers, salami, and topped with a thick heavy red marinara sauce.
Now days I only get about one a year, when I go home to Fresno and eat at Di Cicco's. Sure it's not fancy authentic Italian food, but it is delicious.
I'm already looking forward to my trip to Fresno in April when I'll get to eat all my favorite foods again. The reason for going? One of my closest friends is getting married!
Congrat's TC! I'm so happy for you.
Posted by meloknee at 10:14 AM | Comments (9)
July 14, 2005
I am so sorry, Robertito's, please forgive me.
I can't believe I forgot Robertito's my favorite 24-hour mexican drive-thru restaurant. Oh, how could I? When my sister flew up here a couple weeks ago I made her buy me a bean and cheese burrito from Robertito's before she got on the plane to bring to me. She, unfortunately, left it in her fridge so I didn't get to eat it, but I was close, very close, to getting my yummy burrito.
Now I didn't expect them to have a website, at all, but they are freakin' famous, shouldn't someone have taken the time to write a damn review??!! AAAHHH so frustrated.
Posted by meloknee at 09:16 AM | Comments (0)
July 12, 2005
Hi, Fresno, this is Technology.
My love/hate relationship with Fresno continues. I was trying to compile an interactive list of all the restaurants I want to eat at while I'm in town with Alex in August, when it became realized that Fresno is not so interactive. I can't think of very many places that I frequent in Seattle that don't have their own websites. Most people I know have their own websites. The restaurants, coffee shops & stores that don't have websites at least have profiles on sites such as Citysearch. So, yes, a few of them did have websites, and I'm sure you will be just a impressed by them as I am. In the mean time, I have made a new goal for myself. I will go to the Fresno City search and enter information about every place listed that I possibly can. I think people deserve to know and I have a lot of free time on my hands at the moment.
So here goes my Not-so-interactive List of Restaurants to eat at in Fresno:
1. Shanghai Chinese Cuisine - This is one of my favorite sites. I was in absolute shock and hysterics to find out that Shanghai had a website. This is the Chinese restaurant that I spent 3 years of my life working and eating at. It has completely ruined my ability to eat most Chinese food. I don't know if it's as good as I think it is, but the orange flavored chicken, chinese chicken salad (yes, very american, I realize this), braised green beans and ginger chicken are to die for. Also the hot chicks in chinese dresses that greet you at the door.
2. DiCicco's - The best salad dressing & calzoni. I have yet to find a good calzone in Seattle. The thing about DiCicco's however is that they are all different, so I can only eat at the one on N. Cedar. This is the one that my family went to at least one Sunday a month after church.
3. Uncle Harry's Bagelry - A local chain of bagel shops that, until I moved to Seattle, I thought made decent coffee too. They have this peanut butter chocolate chip bagel that is delicious. Also you can get bagels with creams cheese and tomato slices, yummy.
4. Me-n-Eds Pizza - To my surprise while looking this place up I came to find out that there are Me-n-ed's pizzerias in the Vancouver area of Canada. The only place they exist out of Central California. I'm considering driving there this weekend. They have the best pizza of all time.
5. El Cochinito Contento - My favorite mexican restaurant in Fresno. Supposedly there are better ones, but this is my personal favorite.
6. Sam's Italian Deli or Piemonte's Deli - I really am having the worst time deciding which of these places I like better. I think the food at Sam's is better but the atmosphere at Piemonte's is better...picture Grandma Piemonte sitting on a stool and her 60-year-old, never-been-married son running the register, both of which are nearly deaf and you've gotta give them some credit, they at least try to have a website.
Anyway, I don't really remember where my mind was when this entry started, I think I had a plan and a focus...maybe it will come to me again some day.
Posted by meloknee at 07:13 PM | Comments (5)
May 27, 2005
Frito Boat Follow-up
As for the frito boats, i have figured out the mystery. After doing a lttle googling and polling i have discovered why i thought everyone in the world had heard of frito boats. I'm pretty sure that they were invented by the California school districts as a school lunch. I sent an e-mail to all of my friends from various places throughout California and they all knew what frito boats are, they all (except one) assumed everyone in the united states knows what they are, and most of them said they LOVED them (and that wasn't one of my questions).
Do a google search for frito boats and you find blogs that talk about them (written by people from central cali), school lunch menus, and various bars and snack bars that serve them on the menu. There are various descriptions on how to make them but I must say, I have NEVER cut open a bag of fritos and pured the chili directly in.
So, for those of you whom have yet to discover what a frito boat is, it's fritos with chili poured over them, topped with cheese and onions. I personally prefer green onions, cheddar cheese & tapatio.
Next Sunday dinner it's all about the frito boat. You don't like it, you don't come.
Posted by meloknee at 09:19 PM | Comments (0)