beXnlog

Lemony

What a busy day! First, be and i met up with ZZ at Vegetarian Dim Sum House. The food was yummy as always; we even got freshly squeezed juices and everyone seemed to enjoy them. (In the summertime, the watermelon juice is unbelievable!) Since there was someone else to eat fake shrimp with be, they ordered the shrimp dumplings, along with the usual suspects. ZZ gave us an award-winning cookbook called The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen, which looks really extensive and full of new recipes to try out. I love cookbooks -- even just reading them! Thanks ZZ!

After a quick stop at work and a few errands, i headed to City Bakery to meet up with A$. She had a lunch of udon noodles, tofu, Thai eggplant and salad while i tried the hot chocolate. We both also got peanut butter cookies. I must say that the hot chocolate is definitely amazing. For $4, you get a big cup of it with an optional marshmallow. I chose NO to the marshmallow, but it seems like they use homemade ones. The hot chocolate is very rich and thick, like it's been frothed with heavy cream. It's not bitter since the cream and sugar make it smooth and silky, but the chocolate flavor is still strong. I would definitely go back for more! I haven't tried the pastries but they looked beautiful and tasty, especially the tarts.

Meanwhile be went to the Bronx for 2 different holiday work parties. For the potluck one, he brought a bottle of Smirnoff green apple vodka and a bottle of green apple sour mix, plus 2 Granny Smith apples to make apple-tinis. Instead of a shaker, he used our hand-held frother thing to mix em up. He's such a cute nerd.

Back to work for money-related matters; i finally left around 7PM when be met up with me. We got some snacks at All About Food since we couldn't decide where to eat out for dinner and just headed home in the rain. We ended up seeing "Lemony Snickett" with be's sister and i unsurprisingly fell asleep for the first half of the movie. Back home at 12:30AM, i wrapped gifts for the rest of the night after eating too much popcorn drenched in that greasy "butter."

posted by beXn @ 4:11 AM