{"id":7932,"date":"2009-08-22T08:52:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T12:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=7932"},"modified":"2009-08-22T19:43:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T23:43:34","slug":"august-21st-2009-run-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/08\/august-21st-2009-run-around\/","title":{"rendered":"August 21st, 2009: Run around"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi pretties!\u00a0 This is a recap of yesterday.\u00a0 Not the party, that will be its own thing, but of everything leading up to the party!<\/p>\n

After breakfast I pulled out the electrical prod and started poking Scott to get him moving already because we had to GO!\u00a0 And get stuff done!\u00a0 I loves him but let’s keep it real kids, the man is Pokey when it comes to getting ready to leave the house.<\/p>\n

That’s right, Pokey with a capital P.<\/p>\n

And no I didn’t really use a cattle prod, I said that for effect.\u00a0 I used a lighter.<\/p>\n

Finally we got out and made it over to Tehku <\/a>so I could pick up my lovely berries!<\/p>\n

\"Blackberries<\/p>\n

Jealous?\u00a0 Twelve pints of glorious organic blackberries.\u00a0 For reals!\u00a0 Inggrie contacted me about them.\u00a0 One of the farmers who sells at the Dublin Farmer’s Market (Wednesdays from 4:30-8:30pm!) needed to offload some berries.\u00a0 Because we had so much rain a few days ago, these berries needed picked quick.\u00a0 Now those lovely berries are gonna get frozen, cooked, and all kinds of fantastic thingies.<\/p>\n

Then it was over to Micro Center to pick up a few more things for what will be my Frankenstein baby.\u00a0 Then over to Akai Hana for lunch.\u00a0 Oh this experience made me a little cranky.\u00a0 Every time we’ve been to Akai Hana the service has been amazing so I’m chalking this up to some sort of fluke and I’m not even going to discuss it or worry about it anymore.<\/p>\n

\"Green<\/p>\n

I started off with some green tea.<\/p>\n

And then I ordered the shrimp tempura appetizer.<\/p>\n

\"Shrimp<\/p>\n

I had one shrimp, and then a few bites of each veggie and then I was done.\u00a0 As wonderful as their tempura is, I can only stomach so much fried food.<\/p>\n

To be honest, there wasn’t really a whole lot for me to eat.\u00a0 I was feeling a little frustrated and sort of like I had to pick the best of the worst.\u00a0 Does that even make sense?\u00a0 Not that they have bad food!\u00a0 Akai Hana has awesome food, but if it’s not sushi then it’s noodle and meat based.\u00a0 And that sort of left me in a predicament.<\/p>\n

\"Ramon<\/p>\n

I ended up picking the ramon noodle dish with no pork or fishcake which confused the server greatly.\u00a0 It was in a pork broth which I was okay with.\u00a0 I can do broth, I just don’t want to eat the meat.\u00a0 This dish was fantastic!\u00a0 Seriously it tasted really really great.\u00a0 And if you dig on noodles, definitely check this out if you are at Akai Hana.\u00a0 I had a few bites, not even half and then I was ready to bring it home.\u00a0 While it was good, not enough veg and I don’t want a belly full of noodles for lunch.<\/p>\n

A lot of people were getting served soup and salads before their lunch which I didn’t understand.\u00a0 How were they getting that? I wanted a salad!\u00a0 So I asked.\u00a0 I had a 5 minute conversation with the server over the salad because she couldn’t understand why I wanted a salad and kept asking who was getting salads.<\/p>\n

“What do you want to do with it?”<\/p>\n

“To eat.”<\/p>\n

“To eat?!”<\/em><\/p>\n

It was so weird.\u00a0 This is what was brought out to me.<\/p>\n

\"Mixed<\/p>\n

Oh my.\u00a0 Look at all that dressing!!\u00a0 I wiped off the dressing as best I could with my chopsticks and had a few of the pieces of lettuce.\u00a0 The dressing tasted like it almost had a mayo base?\u00a0 Not good.<\/p>\n

\"Tempura\"Spicy<\/p>\n

Scott ordered a udon noodle dish and spicy tuna rolls.\u00a0 He loved the tuna rolls and that’s why we were there in the first place, so he could get some sushi.\u00a0 Next time though, I think we’re gonna have to just get take out for him and call it good.<\/p>\n

We came home and I went to work getting some raw things in my bellah!\u00a0 That’s the theme of this week, me saying “in my bellah!”.\u00a0 For example, Thursday night while doing my best jazz hands, I was singing, “Wine in my bellah!!” as Scott poured our wine. Klass, this sister has it.<\/p>\n

\"Blackberries<\/a><\/p>\n

I had a bowl of fruit.\u00a0 Some of the fresh blackberries along with some watermelon.<\/p>\n

\"Homemade<\/a><\/p>\n

And a quickie salad:<\/p>\n