Hand me some balsamic vinegar please!

One of the things I ate and really liked during the time I lived in LA was dipping bread into olive oil and balsamic vinegar (the more aged, the better!), sprinkled on with a bit of salt. Since I am still on a (painful and difficult) diet, I googled this snack and found that it is a healthy snack since olive oil is good oil, and well as long as I do wholemeal breads it beats white bread hands down any time. (CARBS WIN)

I miss eating this so so so so so so much! You have no idea!!!!!

Here’s the recipe if you’d like to try it, though don’t forget to add salt to the olive oil and balsamic mixture or else it would just be bland and really sour haha.

The Grove at Fairfax

I fell in love with The Grove the night Sam took me there after work for dinner with Melody and Hosanna. The sight of it was just so pretty. People dining alfresco, the tram (that goes ‘ding ding!’) that cuts right in the centre of everything exciting, the lovely jazz music playing everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE (Can you imagine if Orchard Road was like that?!?!), the huge stores and theatre. We took the tram twice to and fro from Farmer’s market to the other end (Abercombie and Fitch) just for fun. By the time we got to the Farmer’s Market, it was already 8.30pm and all the shops were closing. We managed to get some Singaporean food for me, after 3 months of going without mee goreng, laksa, and the likes. And you can trust that I was literally hopping all over the place when I saw those Yeos canned drinks. (In a way, it felt like a contraband product since it was so hard to find those around in America) I also got to slurp a lot of Chendol (3.50USD for a cup, mind you) and had French sweet crepes for desert (Nutella, strawberries and bananas!!!!!!).

I tried out the Cheesecake Factory before I headed to New York in August, just right before Ben and my brother flew back to Singapore…we waited a good 1hr 30mins(It seems like for good food in LA, there’s always some reasonable wait) just for a huge plate of garlic prawns pasta. As usual, we didn’t manage to finish our portions because they were ridiculously huge. But it was a good place to dine at; 100x better than Applebees. The cheesecakes were fantastic and we bought each of us one to take back to the apartment for breakfast the next morning before we headed to Universal Studios Hollywood, only that I knocked over Ben’s one and it smashed right into the tiled floor of my kitchen ahaha. But using the five second food rule as a (safe stomach) measure, he still ate it anyway.

To sum it up, I will always love The Grove!!!!!!!!!

Perpetually hungry

How is it even remotely possible?

Elysee

Missing the food from Elysee so so much. Its a pity I never took pictures of their grilled chicken crepes or eggs benedict. But their omelette was superb too. Elysee is a french bakery on Gayley and Kinross, and it’s my number one go-to place for Saturday brunch or Sunday breakfast (if I decide to skip Sunday school because I woke up too late for it). My favourite drink was their freshly squeezed orange juice, and on some days I would get their peach flavoured Italian soda for a change.