Thursday: I arrived at around 5:30pm to Linda's apt where I definitely smelled bacon. What a welcome! About an hour later, we sat down to "dinner":
Yes, exactly! Clockwise from top: fresh mashed potatoes (boiled potatoes mashed with butter and some sour cream - there was no milk - with salt and pepper) topped with sour cream, chives and crumpled bacon (kind of like a baked potato I suppose); next: frozen tater tots baked till crispy and golden in the oven and also topped with sour cream, chives and bacon; next: mac and cheese (classic Kraft from the blue box) made with just butter, no milk, so it was thick and then baked in the oven again with some extra shredded cheese and bread crumbs; next: bacon-wrapped asparagus, baked in the oven; next: some corn to round out the meal. Indulgent? Yes. Yummy? Definitely.
Friday: We had a slightly late start so had some yummy leftovers for breakfast/lunch, then headed into San Francisco for the day (of which I will discuss over here when I get to it probably tomorrow)... by the time we were on our way back home, we were starving. And what should we both see before crossing back across the Bay Bridge? A giant McDonald's billboard for a Big Mac combo. So that's all we could think about for the next 20 minutes. And then pulled into the drive-thru to pick up our dinner :)
Saturday: We had a slightly earlier start, so after heading back into SF, we had breakfast/lunch at Wipeout Bar & Grill at Pier 39. I really wanted fries. Again. Because I hadn't had enough of potato products yet? I guess not. I ended up ordering the breakfast sandwich (sorry I didn't get a photo, but it was two eggs - I asked for mine over well - with bacon, lettuce and tomato on white toast... kind of like a BLT with eggs... of which I ended up eating one egg before pulling the other out) with a side of breakfast potatoes. It was pretty good. Especially after I pulled out the egg. :) After that, Linda picked up a waffle ice cream cone from Dreyer's, but there was no way I was having dairy before hitting up Alcatraz despite how delicious the freshly made waffle cones smelled.
Later that evening, we headed over to Ghirardelli Square and ate at Lori's Diner where I ordered the popcorn chicken with a side of fries and a cup of coleslaw. Again, sorry for lack of a photo - it didn't look very appetizing at first, but the popcorn chicken was so insanely crispy and crunchy (I'm assuming from over-cooking and time under a lamp, but the extreme crunch was completely welcomed) and the fries were so-so. My surprise was how much I liked the coleslaw - there was definitely the taste (and feeling) of horseradish in there and I rather enjoyed it.
Before heading back to the car, I had to stop at the Ghirardelli store and pick something up, of course! Since I can pick up chocolate anywhere, including at Target, I opted to get a drink... but what. Oh. Oh my - of course. The "Decadent Drinking Chocolate with Biscotti". It was 4.95 but whatever, I wanted it. Even though I'm not a fan of chocolate. And especially dark chocolate (of which this drink is made from). But you know... it was definitely worth a try and definitely decadent and definitely on my list of 'things I wouldn't think I'd like but totally do'.
At this point, we were back at Linda's apt and I had already started drinking this decadent chocolate drink. What was it like? It was like drinking a cup of melted dark chocolate, with a slightly thicker consistency than a chocolate fountain. And I liked it. Of course it took me the rest of the night to finish half.
Sunday was a lazy day. It had rained in the morning and was drizzly for nearly the entire day. I finished the remaining half of that chocolate decadence (why do I want another one right now?) and then munched on Chips Ahoy cookies and Lay's potato chips for most of the day as we lounged around the apartment. Finally needing some air, we took off for dinner, walking several blocks to Jupiter's. Oh how I miss just heading out the door and walking places because it's that close and convenient! Jupiter's was a really cool looking/feeling place, kind of dark inside where everything was in a dark wood - the floor, the walls, the tables, the chairs, the wall-lined benches... kind of a beer place (but neither of us ordered beer) with specialty in individual pizzas.
Yum! I ordered the 9" Xanthia Pizza (9.50), which starts with the olive oil handmade crust topped with thinly sliced Yukon gold potatoes, bacon, garlic, mozzarella and ricotta cheese, crushed red peppers and fresh herbs (like rosemary). The white dots are dollops of ricotta cheese... but the white in the very center was the bite I took before taking the photo. I just had to. It was so good. I had two slices and then just ate the topping off the remainder of the pizza :)
And then later that night we had mint-and-chip ice cream sandwiches.
Monday we got up early and packed the car. I was taking Linda back down to OC with me since she had a week-long "Fall Break" from school. On the way home down the long, long I-5 drive, we stopped for gas and breakfast/lunch at Andersen's Pea Soup (or is it Pea Soup Andersen's?) where I ordered, naturally, a bowl of their famous Pea Soup. And, why not - a side of hash browns.
The soup was good, not too salty, but I have to say... the hash browns were great! It was a bit on the not-so-hot side, but the taste more than made up the lack of temp. It tasted like butter. Really. I could go for another order right about now as well.
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