Les Courses

Grocery Stores I've Been To in the Past Week:
-First Oriental Market
-Bollywood Market
-Sunflower
-Smith's
-Target

Restaurants I Ate at Last Month:
-Bruges
-El Gallo Giro
-Nicolitalia
-L&T (yes, I mean the place on campus)
-La Jolla Groves

My Kind of Adventure

Places I want to eat at before I move away from Provo:

-Gloria's Little Italy

-The Vietnamese place on Center Street

-Sam Hawk's (again)

-The Korean place on University, right by Center Street

-Pizzaria 712

-Communal (again)

-Shabu Shabu

-The Parlor

-Four seasons hot pot and dumplings

-The China buffet place that's next to that crazy intersection down seventh east. I think.

-That one place called "@5" or something like that

-Taco-n-tento

-La Dolce Vita

-O'Falafel

-Ali Baba's (for the fourth time this semester... hahaha)

-Brugges waffles and frites (for the third time)

-Saigon's Cafe (or, as I call it, Ming's, which used to be a regular part of my diet)

-The chinese place that used to be the Mongolian place called "cooking taste right." Except I don't know if I really want to go now that it's not "cooking taste right."

-Diego's (I just really like that place)

-El Gallo Giro (ditto to the above)

-Se Llama Peru

-That one Peruvian place that's by University Mall

-Yamato's

-La Brioche (technically, it's just a bakery and not a restaurant)

-That one place by Timp high that's in that one mormon movie

-India palace

-Sammy's (I just like their cup shakes and the grilled cheese isn't bad)

-Einstein's (I just really like the lox, and that they're about the only place to get real bagels around here)

-Probably more places I can't think of

Places I've Eaten the Past Week:

-jamba juice

-terriyaki stix (gross... why did I do that?)

-Ali Baba (Pakistani in Sugar House-- so good!)

-Spicy Thai

-Sammy's

-Marley's

-Elian's patisserie

-my house

-Sariah's house

-the library (shhh....)

Recipe checklist

Recipes (on my notecards) that I have made:

-Avocado pound cake

-Texas flour tortillas

-Honey Whole Wheat Pound Cake

-Lemon Risotto

-Nancy Silverton's Bran Muffins

-Flourless PB&J cookies

-Bacon and tomato guacamole

-Hummus (two recipes; one on each side-- Simply Recipes and Ina Garten)

-White batter bread

-Lowfat oatmeal banana bread

-Avocado shakes

-Peanut Butter brownies

-David Lebovitz's chocolate chip cookies

-Almost flourless peanut butter cookie

-Zucchini pancakes

Recipes on my notecards that I haven't yet made:

-Chocolate nut bread (pain aux noix et au chocolat)

-Babaganouzh or Moutabal

-Falafel

-Tehina

-Rick Bayless' dairy-free avocado ice cream

-Hummus bi tehina

-Vanilla ice cream w/o the machine

Insomnia

Places I like in Utah Valley:
-Center Street, Provo
-Orem
-Olib (my affectionate nickname for Orem Public Library)
-Target
-Harvest Fresh
-Certain parts of BYU campus (the JFSB, the benches between the MARB and Kennedy Center)
-My apartment

The Best Ethnicities For Cuisine:
-Japanese
-Chinese (not fast food style, but steamed buns and wontons)
-Mexican (and by extension, El Salvadoran and Chilean and all other Latin American cuisine)
-Indian
-Thai
-Creole

Things I crave on a daily basis:
-Burritos-- enchilada style or taco bell's basic bean burrito
-SPICE
-Chocolate
-Steamed buns/wontons/gyousa
-A significant other
-Adventure