Braisin' Hussy

Monday, April 30, 2007

I'd like to take a moment to recognize one of my favorite lunch places.

Polish Deli

It's not a very glamorous name. And it hasn't gotten a lot of buzz on the Intertubes, unfortunately. (Here it is on Yelp as well as a couple mentions on Chowhound.)

It's a very small deli/market run by a very friendly Polish guy from Chicago. He grills the sausages on a Weber grill on the patio out back, then puts them on a roll with sauerkraut and spicy mustard. It's good! The market section sells a bunch of Polish foods- jams, mustards, etc.

Note to my dad: the next time we go out for lunch, I'm taking you here!
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Monday, April 23, 2007

No cooking for Sarah. Bad Sarah.

Jer, Mark, and I tried Potsticker King on Friday. Apart from some weirdness with our waiter, who would not let me order the Sweet Rice Sausage and instead made me get the Sticky Rice Cone, it was pretty decent.

I was going to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival up in San Francisco yesterday to meet up with Lydia and check out the cosplay events. But I couldn't find anyone to carpool with, and last year I drove up, spent about an hour failing to find parking, and drove back home, annoyed beyond belief. So I skipped it. Instead, I biked up to Mountain View and had a giant burrito at Los Charros, more than negating any good effect the biking may have done for me. Tasty!

Then I went with Rob and Mark to Chili's for dinner. My salad was lamer than usual (not much lettuce but a ton of croutons), but our waiter kept up with my Diet Coke consumption like a pro. So thank you, Peter from the Cupertino Chili's.

I started a new costume on Saturday. I need to make a dress and a shrug, plus some accessories. It's been pretty tough so far, but hopefully I'll have something done by the end of the week.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

My brother is appearing on an episode of Mythbusters tonight. 9PM on the Discovery Channel! WATCH IT.
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Monday, April 09, 2007

Nothing new on the cooking front, I'm sad to say. I have a box of matzoh that needs using, so I was thinking about making the matzoh kugel my mom made for the seder. It was really, really tasty. Also excellent were the lamb chops my dad made. He used a mixture of matzoh crumbs, mustard, rosemary, oregano, and garlic on them. So good!

I started biking to work last week. It takes roughly forever (where forever equals an hour each way), but it's good for me to do some sort of physical activity besides walking to McDonald's. Before last week, I hadn't ridden a bike in eight or nine years. Last week (and probably this week, too), I was so damn sore. Sitting on a bike hurts a lot more than I remember.

I signed up for a YouTube account the weekend before last. I'm very slowly capturing and uploading The Marvelous Land of Oz, a (surprisingly faithful) musical version of L. Frank Baum's second Oz book. The sound and picture quality is pretty terrible, since this is a homemade VHS copy from a 1981 production.

After I finish this, I'm planning on uploading an Oz/Baum documentary and then a fairly rare Douglas Adams special.
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Monday, April 02, 2007

Nathan's birthday party was yesterday, and it was great fun. Ryan and her family had made a ridiculous cake, as usual. :) It was a tall cake, with four faces, and it rotated so that you could pair up different heads, bodies, and legs in the manner of a children's book.

I brought along my bean dip and liptauer, as well as some syrup for drinks that didn't get used because I couldn't find club soda at Target. I didn't really have high hopes for it, anyway.

Last weekend, my roommates went to Dave and Buster's, an arcade/bar/restaurant thing. They got a lot of tickets on the machines and exchanged them for a large plush Batman figure, which they then gave to me. I noticed that Batman was just about the same height as my American Girl dolls (even though his head is tiny in comparison). And that discovery led to Batman attending a tea party. Hurray!

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