October 2012 Discoveries

October's Discoveries

1. GF/Dairy free Zucchini bread Betty Crocker Adapted (less sugar, no eggs use flax) worked! I could pick up a piece without it crumbling and it baked all the way through (sometimes flax "eggs" don't seem to set). I think summer squash season is still happening in SD-lots of varieties still at farmer's market last Sunday.

2. Zucchini dip is very refreshing- http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/when-food-bites-back/

3. I heard from an online article that you can do microwave popcorn in a brown sack without adding oil-my experiment lead to only 50% yield and cannot repop in same bag (burnt, sorry co-workers! maybe if popping in a new bag?). Will stick to making it at home on the stove in oil. Although I have been messing that up lately too-poor yield and burnt. I used to make it so great. Need to keep a notebook of what temp to use on my stove...3 was no good! Maybe a little hotter?

4. H mart Korean Market is coming to Mira Mesa (sometime, not listed on their website yet as a location)

5. Potluck with Abby in celebration of her being here for an optometry rotation. People were kind and brought lots that I could eat. Goat cheese stuffed mushrooms from Jayne.  Dave cooked up the crowd-pleaser Fresh and Easy happy meat ground beef tacos. Allie picked up a wonderful macadamia nut crust lemony coconut pie from Jimbo's, Fresh and Easy carries Glutino bagel chips, great with their hummus platter which another customer promptly told Shellyn "yes they are!" after the grocery staff said they would have to find out if they were g-free. They also carry no-bake chocolate peanut butter cookies that are g-free (yay, Don! And he even brought my requested Vietnamese tofu spring roll. What a pal!) [Abby: "What's a no bake cookie?" Aw, hump day exhaustion.]

6. Lemon grass tofu with noodles better than with rice at Pho Bahn Mi in Mira Mesa.

7.Not food related but handy to know... Southwest lets you turn a "Wanna Get Away" fare into a voucher good for a year if you cancel before your flight boards. My family visits this month were dashed.

8. Jayne gives the Japanese Garden cafe at Balboa Park 2 thumbs up for an udon noodle bowl on a cool drizzly afternoon before we saw Allegiance at Old Globe. 

9. Marukai puts their deli food at 20% near closing...$6 tuna-avocado roll and $1 something for little fried sesame balls. I get there around 8:30pm sometimes after volunteering. 

10.  Thai curry mussels at Takrhai Thai in Poway still taste good. Glad we went on a weekend for lunch so Peter could try them. The M-F lunch menu doesn't have them.