Monday, November 13, 2006
Have you ever wondered why English Muffins...
Have you ever wondered how and/or why the texture and flavor of a English muffin changes when you eat it different ways? Well I do, I mean I am wondering that right now. I just got back from Trader Joe's, a local Grocery store in Chicago, where I bought a number of bread, and bread-like items, including your standard, everyday English muffin. Ok, so normally when I eat English muffins I toast them and just eat them with a little bit of butter, plain and simple. The texture is great, you have the somewhat crunchy outer part of the muffin after it's toasted, and then the butter makes the top kind of smooth, but when you bite into it, it has this amazing juxtaposition of spongy fluffiness and outer crunch that is just wonderful. It's so hard to explain..anyway, back to the point. Today, I got some strawberry preserves and was aching to try them. So, I toasted an English muffin, buttered it, then added a generous amount of preserves and proceeded to eat it, it was crazy...everything was softer, the textures, the flavors, even the brightness of the strawberry was mellowed and refined. It wasn't as though I was eating just another English muffin with strawberry preserves, which it happened to be. I was eating something with no connection to either of the two main ingredients but a melding of them to make something completely different and new.
Cafe Sushi Chicago
A Couple of Fridays ago, I went with a few friends to a sushi place in Old Town, called Cafe Sushi.
Cafe Sushi was recomended by a friend from one of my design classes at SAIC, and I must say, "it didn't disappoint". Cafe Sushi is off the Red line in Chicago's Old Town, hop on at Madison and head to Clark& Division walk on block west on Division to LaSalle Blvd take a right walk 2 blocks to Gothe St, turn left crossing the street, go another block or so and make a left at Wells and Cafe sushi is about 1/3 a block down on the corner of Wells and Evergreen Ave. The restaurant was simple and nice, the strange blue of the neon mood lighting was a little strange as well at the conflicting decor, the bathroom was distinctly classic with a little bit of Tuscany running throughand the odd placement of an atrocious mirror and a water feature made it a little difficult to get in and out of our area of the dining room it was over all a good experiance. The service was a bit slow when it came to the entree's because of the weekend traffic but besides that, our waitress {the girl who suggested we come} was super attentive, friendly and nice.
I liked the Sushi, it was fresh and quite flavorful I started with an appatizer of Edamame and the ordered simple Alaskan Maki (6) Salmon with avocado. and then to mix it up a little I tried the Sweet Potato Tempura Maki (6) Sweet potato tempura with avocado, cucumber. I was pleased with the old standby and impressed by the new. the Sweet Potato Roll was full of many different tastes and textures and the crunch of the Sweet Potato was a perfect complement to the smoothness of the avacado. The evening was excactly what I needed, mid-terms were a killer. The night was cold, but the company and the food were great!
Cafe Sushi was recomended by a friend from one of my design classes at SAIC, and I must say, "it didn't disappoint". Cafe Sushi is off the Red line in Chicago's Old Town, hop on at Madison and head to Clark& Division walk on block west on Division to LaSalle Blvd take a right walk 2 blocks to Gothe St, turn left crossing the street, go another block or so and make a left at Wells and Cafe sushi is about 1/3 a block down on the corner of Wells and Evergreen Ave. The restaurant was simple and nice, the strange blue of the neon mood lighting was a little strange as well at the conflicting decor, the bathroom was distinctly classic with a little bit of Tuscany running throughand the odd placement of an atrocious mirror and a water feature made it a little difficult to get in and out of our area of the dining room it was over all a good experiance. The service was a bit slow when it came to the entree's because of the weekend traffic but besides that, our waitress {the girl who suggested we come} was super attentive, friendly and nice.
I liked the Sushi, it was fresh and quite flavorful I started with an appatizer of Edamame and the ordered simple Alaskan Maki (6) Salmon with avocado. and then to mix it up a little I tried the Sweet Potato Tempura Maki (6) Sweet potato tempura with avocado, cucumber. I was pleased with the old standby and impressed by the new. the Sweet Potato Roll was full of many different tastes and textures and the crunch of the Sweet Potato was a perfect complement to the smoothness of the avacado. The evening was excactly what I needed, mid-terms were a killer. The night was cold, but the company and the food were great!
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Work...Lots of it.
I need more work...
I have a massive work load as it is, but I've found that If I don't have work I.e. a job to go along with my classes as school, I don't get half as many things done. I am attempting to get motivated to do somthing creative with what the assignments I have been given.
How would you design a Coffee shop that is supposed to be inspired by the abstract art of Kandinsky? that is what I have to do. Now I have to do it! More on the execution later.
I have a massive work load as it is, but I've found that If I don't have work I.e. a job to go along with my classes as school, I don't get half as many things done. I am attempting to get motivated to do somthing creative with what the assignments I have been given.
How would you design a Coffee shop that is supposed to be inspired by the abstract art of Kandinsky? that is what I have to do. Now I have to do it! More on the execution later.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
My First Blog...
This is my very first blog outside of the ocasional Xanga, or Myspace.
I'm not going to write an extreme amount, just because it is quite late in the evening and I said earlier in the evening that I wasn't going to stay up late tonight. I have a large amount of work to do for my design classes and it would be a good idea for me to sleep sometime.
I think that I will go do that whole sleep thing right now.
I'm not going to write an extreme amount, just because it is quite late in the evening and I said earlier in the evening that I wasn't going to stay up late tonight. I have a large amount of work to do for my design classes and it would be a good idea for me to sleep sometime.
I think that I will go do that whole sleep thing right now.