biscuits and gravy and eggs oh my

I'm not a huge breakfast eater. I mean I eat breakfast every morning, but big breakfasts are reserved for lazy days, because they make me sleepy. Jack makes AWESOME breakfasts. So this was our Saturday morning...


Biscuits and Gravy, Poached eggs and blueberry-maple chicken sausage.

A+

If you're ever in the Creve Couer area of the STL, go directly to pita+. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200. This is one of my favorite places to grab lunch. I would recommend the gyro and the chicken gyro. The pitas there are far superior to any I've ever found at a store. Tender, tasty, fresh. I went last night for dinner and got the Falafel platter. So good. So much food! It came with 5 falafel, a pita, some hummus, tahini and mediterranean salad (tomaotes, cucumbers and kalamata olives.) Gorgeous. See?

more than just bubble tea

today I took a long walk with one destination in mind. St. Louis Bubble Tea. See, I was really jonesin' for their coconut green bean slush with boba. For those of you not in-the-know, bubble tea comes in a plethora of flavors and temperatures. The thing that makes it bubble tea are the boba, which are tapioca like balls, which are bigger than a pea and smaller than a marble. They have the texture of a gummy bear almost. You have to use a special straw to drink it, and yes, you chew your drink.

Anyway, this place has food, too, and I've always been curious to try a menu item called "Soy Sauce Chicken." So today, I did. And boy was it good. It consisted of a chicken leg quarter, very tender and dark with soy sauce. Some white rice, which had that distinctive slight smoky flavor that I never get when I make rice at home, a big hunk of bok choy and a brownish peeled hard boiled egg. I think the egg might have been a tea egg? or something similar. Whatever it was, it was awesome. Kind of sweet and salty. mmmmm. Anyway, I had my camera with me, and the lighting was good at my sunny corner table, and the food looked do pretty and delicious, I snapped some photos:

the other cook in the house

I don't know if I've mentioned it much, but my sweetheart is a much better cook than me. He loves to cook, and he does it well. Really well. Last night, after a long day on my feet at work and a fun little work happy hour, I came home to him greeting me with this:




Isn't it pretty? So green. And it was mighty tasty, too. I don't have an exact recipe or anything, but it was a concoction of scallops, tilapia, lime, jalapenos, maybe some sesame oil? On a bed of fresh cabbage, with cubes of avocado and fresh cilantro and more fresh lime. It was pretty spicy, and had a great tang which complimented the fish nicely. Even though it was late, and I had had some sweet potato fries at the bar, I ate the whole big plate of it.