In full:
Thanks for all the good conversation and yummy grub from around the planet
My first report on a two-day visit from my old friend Ellen Kaisse, who flew in from Seattle to San Jose. Intended as help in my preparing to move to an assisted living facility — and we got some of that in — but for me it became mostly a wonderful time talking about our lives these days and trying to recover accurate memories of our pasts (so that there will be at least one more posting about the fragility and pliability of memory) — a vacation from my anxieties and sorrows, punctuated by three breaks for food (two lunches and one dinner), carefully chosen to be favorites of mine — I am now an experienced browser of restaurants for home delivery — that I was pretty sure Ellen had never had before and would also fit her dietary constraints (she doesn’t eat mammals).
This is the food report.
My three choices were notably international (Ellen: from around the planet): Korean, Chinese, Mexican. I’ve posted about two of them on earlier occasions on this blog, but the three have never been juxtaposed like this.
the log:
lunch Sunday. japchae: stir-fried glass noodles (made from sweet potato starch) and vegetables, a Korean specialty — from Vons Chicken (Korean fried chicken) in Redwood City
dinner Sunday: mixed seafood with tofu soup: shrimp, fish fillet, crab meat, and calamari in a thickened chicken broth with soft bean curd and white egg drop (egg drop soup gone wild) — from Amazing Wok in San Carlos
lunch Monday. bowl of Mexican grill with seared shrimp: Mexican corn, black beans, pico de gallo, guacamole, cotija cheese, tomatillo dressing, tortilla chips, brown rice, organic greens (so a kind of Mexican poke bowl, very Cal-trendy) — from Pacific Catch in Palo Alto
Great successes. And there were leftovers for me.
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