The Unreal Meal

It’s been over a year since I posted here.  That’s pretty lousy, I know.  It’s obviously not been over a year since I last ate (Honey Nut Cheerios with a banana sliced in for breakfast this morning just a couple hours ago, if you really want to know), but somehow the writing, photographing, etc. seems to have gone by the wayside.  Or so it would appear, anyway…

Something that I’d been thinking about for a while now was doing a Photo of the Day type thing that was solely food related. I thought and thought for a while, and finally decided to do that.  I started it on 3/27, so I’ve been going for a whopping 11 days now (today being #12).  That being said, I’m enjoying the hell out of it, and I’ve been posting my pics both on my personal Facebook page as well as Flickr.  I’m going to try and see if I can import the Flickr photoset here, and then perhaps I can keep things going here a little more fluidly and regularly.

Keep your eyes peeled, and if anyone knows of good WordPress plugins for importing stuff from Flickr, please let me know!

Highlights of some of the things that have happened in the last year, food-wise:

Last May I got paid to bake a cake for a co-worker for his graduation.  First money I’ve ever made cooking for someone.  Pretty stinkin’ awesome.

In September, I got engaged.  That’s not food related, just exciting.  Later that month we went to California for a dear friend’s wedding (amazing food at that wedding, too — best I think I’ve ever had at a wedding).

On that same trip, we dined at Incanto with some friends, which was absolutely wonderful.  The day after that, my fiancé and I drove up to Napa and had dinner at The French Laundry.  I can’t even begin to relate how spectacular that was.

Last month, we had the opportunity to attend a special small-ish (about 80 people or so) event held at Nobu57 that was an umami and sake tasting.  It was put together by Nobu himself and two of his partners, affectionately referred to as Mr. Sake and the Umami Mama.  It was astonishingly good, and they just kept pouring and pouring and pouring and pouring the sake.  Nobu is a kind, gracious man whose death row food would be sushi (yes, I asked), and he particularly loves fluke.  As that’s a favorite of mine, I felt that we were instantly kindred souls, though that could’ve been the sake, haha.  It was truly an unreal meal.