in the meantime...

right right- another post that's not so about salad. i have a terrif salad spot coming up, but (please see title) i just had to post this: my latest attempt at some pad kee mao variation! 


this one was really good, and real close to the taste i associate with the dish!

plentiful on the chili, but ran a little short on basil. also, i threw in some chin kong choy and skipped on the bean sprouts.


the only not-awesome point of the experience was watching a poorly dressed hipster try to hit on the cashier at A Grocery. he went so far as to inform her that he "even eat(s) with chopsticks"...searching for love in all the wrong places. actually, i don't know that this idiot has a soul-mate waiting anywhere, and he definitely didn't make me feel great about being the next white guy in line. 


oh well, at least i can dress myself and cook...and just for full disclosure, i ate this food with a fork. jus sayin'.

princess tomato in the salad kingdom

if you're as much of a salad fanatic as i am, you gotta toss that noise up into every possible sector of life.
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behold!
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princess tomato in the salad kingdom (サラダの国のトマト姫 Salada no Kuni no Tomato Hime).



i love this game. tried to play it on tour once, but gave up.

the greenest leaf...

ok, even though i've been slightly sensitive and emotionally compromised lately, i swear this lady next to me in the produce section of the grocery scoffed at my selecting green leaf lettuce...she picked out something fancier i believe...frizzz-aye!

what's the word looking for to describe this...

"FRANCH"...!!!

here's the disturbingly self explanatory concept of "FRANCH" dressing...

*a (knee shy) product, in coordination with table-blue brand.

all rights reserved.

grilled romaine?

it is good! it's kinda crispy... 

sorry guys, but this is the norm for the photos here. not complimentary? eat it! i did...

seriously yall, everything i've tried @ ayc is extremely rad and fun. the menu mainly consists of small plates ranging from $7-$9 a pop, and more than worth it. we eat small..always, but well at the yacht club. just go.

find out about it:

www.allstonyachtclub.com

we call it "cool slaw"...

cole slaw is one of those dishes that just shows up for dinner sometimes…kinda like a boring-ass friend with unoriginal commentary and bad ideas that are easily brushed off.

there’s the table without cole slaw, and the table with cole slaw…it looks the same to me.

the jazzpanther threw together this yummy cole slaw the other day. why is it yummy?

green peas!

all creamy cole slaw should include green peas until the world ends.

late nite salad fusion: papaya meets wedge...

the jazz panther and i recently found ourselves at an undisclosed thai bar with a late nite menu. given little in choice in the vegetarian department, we decided to give their papaya salad a try.

apparently, they've chosen to model their version after the wedge salad, replacing the traditional chunk of iceburg lettuce with a mountainous, full 1/3 of a head of green cabbage, which towered over a kind of gradient marsh of shredded papaya and carrot. 

it wasn't that bad...plus we were asking for it...i found that drinking helped.


the best part of the experience was an extra smooth lounge set by a young woman with a keyboard, which eventually transformed into an equally soothing karaoke performance by two young men.


i felt that the flash from my camera could've been easily misinterpreted as an ill-spirited move, so i opted for illustrating the dish.