Thanks Alton Brown

I love Alton Brown's simple dietary list. Well I love lists and hate the idea of diets so this looks like a great plan. He lays it down nice and simple. Not like I can follow all of it.

Daily: whole grains, green tea, fruit, nuts.

Three times a week: oily fish, tofu, yogurt, sweet potato.

Once a week: alcohol, desserts, red meat, white starch.

Never: soda, canned soup, “diet” anything, fast food.

http://lifehacker.com/simplify-your-diet-with-alton-browns-four-lists-method-1699651847

Waffles from scratch

     It's not often that I have buttermilk around the house. When L requested waffles this morning I was happy to oblige. I also am usually a prepared mix kind of guy, going all the way back to bisquick. This recipe for Buttermilk Belgians in the Big Yellow Gourmet Cookbook did the trick nicely. Much better than a mix. I made a 1/3 batch and I used canola instead of butter. 1/2 a cup of batter did not quite fill my waffle maker. They were delicious. And they were gone before I could take a picture.

I got a picture this time. Special chocolate chip waffles for L's 6th Birthday!

Cake part one

     We make our nieces and nephews birthday cakes and my wife's sister makes our kids birthday cakes. We have made some pretty grand creations in the past. Today I started the 'How to Train Your Dragon' cake. It will be three layered and checkered chocolate, mint and buttermilk cake with Toothless on top. It we will be awesome but probably not a Pinterest moment. See phase one.

Chocolate cake tomorrow, then the building. Did you see that rainbow cake video in face book? We are trying a scaled down version of that. Go see our older creations on our Flickr site, see Birthday Cakes Album.

Last trip to the Boat Street Cafe

     Back in 1999 Stephanie and I got engaged at the lovely Boat Street Cafe just north of the ship canal. It has since moved to a grander spot but is now closing. The chef wants to pay more attention to her other reasurants.

      We went this last Friday for my birthday dinner and were blown away by the delicious food and great service. See my dinner below. Not my photo. 

     We look forward to going to The Whale Wins in Fremont. I have heard great things.