Hamilton, Montana

If you are ever in Hamilton, Montana you should check out A Place to Ponder Bakery And Cafe. Their baked goods are amazing! We were in charge of getting the dessert for the BBQ after the wedding on Saturday. The owner of the Little Blue Joint restaurant in Darby told us we needed to go to Hamilton to get good baked goods. He was right about A Place To Ponder-- it made delicious things. We ended up buying a whole white chocolate cake with raspberry filling for an impromptu wedding cake. I also picked up this humongous Ginger cookie crinkle (two ginger cookies the size of Evan's head sandwiched around some frosting). Yum!

Church sign read

"no foreclosure on your heavenly home"

Silver capital of the world

We're on our way to darby, Montana for evan's cousin's wedding. We
stopped in Wallace, Idaho for some dinner. Apparently it's the silver
capital of the world. They had a whole outdoor museum on silver mining
that we walked thru on the way into town.

Bro + girlie

When my family came to visit, we took a trip up to the revolving restaurant at the top of the space needle. Here's Will and his girlie, Evelyn before lunch.

Begonia?

The plant that our friend Mira gave us is flowering! Neither she nor I had any idea what type of plant it was, but now I'm thinking it is some kind of begonia. What do you think?

Pinenut honey tart

I made this from a recipe in the most recent MSL. It was delicious.
Kinda like a pecan pie but more delicate and not as painfully sweet
(although it was still sweet)

Asha says

"I'm a blob-cat"

Ong sun!

Look how much blogging i get done when I'm sleep deprived and running
subjects all day.

Pheonix after midnight

Here's a happy fu and Ming eating at Pheonix in Pasadena, CA. I can't
remember if Natasha (Fu's GPS) got us lost that evening or not, but I
do remember it took a long time to get there and I was struggling to
stay awake in the backseat of the car.

Ong

Ong! There's a ghost on the beach... Oh wait, it's just a sun-deprived
Seattlite.

Happy roomies

Happy roomies at Daniel's party

Dim sum is a serious matter

I believe we went to Sea Harbor Restaurant. Their nonfried dishes were excellent, but their fried dishes were not worth eating.

Pink Berry

We got to try out the famed pinkberry. It was pretty tasty especially on a hot day inland. I still like the place in Seattle that make the frozen yogurt with Nancy's yogurt better.

Baked goods at Pink Orchid

Coffee snobbery?

Guest blogged by Evan

I can't say for certain, but Seattle may have converted us into being ridiculous coffee snobs. Our journey to LA was frought with coffee mediocrity. Even at Opus, with it's chef's tasting menu, the coffee tasted of little more than rinsed day old grounds. Epic sadness.

Have we bought into the Seattle mythos? Have we become those people who always say "oh, the this or that is much better back home...?"

The one thing that may be evidence against our utter loss to snobbery was our enjoyment of the coffee at a local Persian bakery called Pink Orchid. While their breakfast items were hot or miss, the coffee was good alongside a healthy dose of tasty baked goods and super friendliness.

Real beach!

It's been so long since I've seen a real beach. It is so big and beautiful. I love Cali.

Ming!

Brunch

I had brunch with my daddy last weekend in belltown at CJ's. The food was okay. My corned beef hash was only slightly better than what you could get from a can, but my dad's breakfast ( shown above) looked tasty. Their coffee was seriously weak though-a major disappointment in this city.

Daniel's party

Yesterday we got together and celebrated daniel's bday party by going to BBQ and ice cream. The ice cream place was pretty fun. It's a place called molly moon in Wallingford. They have delicious homemade ice cream flavors like salted caramel, honey lavender, and balsamic strawberry. They also make their own humongous waffle cones!

Garden flower

Look at the hydrangea I brought in from my garden. I went to Martha Stewart's website and found out you have to condition the flowers for 4 hours after cutting to make them last as cut flowers. You firstplunge the cut end in boiling water for 30 sec. Then you put the whole stem in cold water for awhile. Then you mist it for four hours!