key lime pie with pretzel crust

i made this pie for my friend's birthday. i've never actually had key lime pie, and i didn't get to eat this. so i hope it was good. looked delicious..

cheesy grilled cheese

i'm pretty picky when it comes to cheese. some might even say it's a miracle that i'm eating cheese at all (i never used to go near the stuff). but one morning i woke up and craved some greasy, stretchy, ooey gooey cheesy goodness. and i was craving that same goodness tonight.

i had half a loaf of leftover french bread, so i thought it would make a great sandwich. i also had some leftover pasta sauce from dinner last night. i decided that a mozzarella and marinara sandwich would taste good. but the best part - the parmesan crust. one of my friends in high school had a chef as a dad, so she had a few good kitchen tips. one day when i was at her house she made a grilled cheese sandwich, but spread some butter and parmesan cheese on the bread before putting it in the pan. so i remembered this friend, and remembered her awesome bread trick, and i did it.

if you want a crispy parmesan bread, spread some butter over one side of the bread, and then pat some parmesan cheese (i just used some good ol' kraft grated cheese) over your butter. put the butter/cheese side down in the pan and let it get crispy. once you start to get a nice golden orange color, add your sandwich fillers and let it all get hot and gooey. then indulge your cheesiness nature and eat it up!

tahiti treats

pumpkin pumpkin pumpkin

i felt like i had to fully emerge myself in pumpkin this past weekend - its still 90 degrees outside, that fall smell isn't in the air, and we haven't changed the time yet. therefore, i obsessed with pumpkin in order to make it feel more like fall. i think it sort of worked.

first, i made vegan pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. i'll link the recipe later.




then scott and i carved pumpkins.


then of course we had to toast the seeds (with salt, garlic, onion and cumin) mmm.



and that was my pumpkin weekend!

henry's tacos

Henry's Tacos is the best taco place ever.  i don't care what others say, i don't care if it's dirty, i don't care if it's mystery meat.  nothing can ever come close.  i will be eating here until the day i die.

today i had two hard tacos.  yumyumyumyum.

tomato and basil pizza

ngan+kat+pizza dough+hunger=one successful pizza

berkeley, 2006