Showing posts with label san fransisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label san fransisco. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Yo-yo Ma and Neatloaf

L
ast week Derrick and I went to San Francisco for the day to attend an open rehearsal of the SF Symphony- featuring Yo-yo Ma! Here is a picture of the symphony warming up and Yo-yo Ma playing!




It was pretty awesome. He got so into when he played compared to the other symphony members.

After the show we went to eat at a place down the street called Ananda Fuara




Its inspired by this kinda weird religious/cult guy, but you wouldn't know it except that there is info about it on the menu. Anyway, the food was delicious! I got curry and Derrick got Neatloaf, which is basically vegetarian meatloaf. Derrick like it so much that he googled a recipe for me to try! I made it over the weekend and it is so good! Here is the
recipe I used:
    Neatloaf
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1/4 cup Lipton Onion Soup Mix (I don't know what this is, I just added some bullion and extra onions instead)
  • 1/3 lb low-fat ricotta cheese
  • 1/3 lb firm tofu (squished up into small pieces)
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil, of choice
  • 1/3 cup onion, chopped
  • 1/2 cup cooked brown rice (make sure you cook it well or the rice bits on the outside will turn to rocks)
  • 1/2 teaspoon oregano
  • 1/2 teaspoon basil
  • 1/4 teaspoon rosemary
  • 4 cups Special K cereal (I substituted quick oats)
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons garlic
    Here are the ingredients for the sauce:
  • 1/2 cup ketchup (you can also substitute catsup)
  • 1/8 cup Dijon mustard
  • 1/4 cup molasses
  • 1/8 cup apple cider vinegar
  • Cayenne pepper (to taste - a pinch is plenty for me)
    Directions:
  • Heat oven to 300°F.
  • Saute the onions and garlic (in just a little bit of oil).
  • Beat eggs in bowl, the mix together all ingredients except Special K (to make gluten free add gluten free corn flakes instead)
  • Mix well, and add Special K last.
  • Turn into a pan sprayed with cooking oil. You can use either a 7×9 or 8×8 pan.
  • Bake 1 hour.
  • While Neatloaf cooks prepare sauce, whisking together all sauce ingredients in a bowl. I typically like a lot of sauce so I double the sauce part. (I just used the sauce from my regular meatloaf recipe since I didn't have all the stuff in this one)
  • Remove loaf from oven, pour sauce over the loaf and cook an additional 10 minutes.
  • When loaf is done, if you can avoid the temptation, it’s best to let it sit for 10-15 minutes


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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Vacation 2009

We went on vacation a couple weeks ago.  It feels like forever ago since things have been so busy though.  Anyway, I took over 900 pictures but I only posted about 100 for the internet to enjoy.  Since then I have played around in GIMP with a couple of them.  I think they are cool so I will post them here for you too!  I am generous like that.

We went out to the coast- started in Monterey and ended in Marin Headlands with stops in Santa Cruz, Big Basin SP, Half Moon Bay and San Fransisco.  It was our most low key vacation ever and probably the most enjoyable.

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