Homemade meals during the time of Covid - March to May 2020 edition

With more folks "staying at home" due to the mandate in March and April...

a lot of home cooking, at least for me and my sister was going on...

Katuray salad

[Retro post - recently looked for these pix which were taken in summer of 2017 but am posting them Aug 2019 so I can have a post during that month, ha ha]

My parents recently gave us these interesting flower...

which were placed in a ziploc bag...

Tatang NoHo

[Retroactive post - written and posted on 6/26/20]

FYI - With the pandemic, this place may not be doing in-house dining. Instead, they are doing Takeout according to the four lettered site.

In a small strip mall with a nearby Mexican market is a new (at the time) Filipino eatery...

Sari Sari Store at the Grand Central Market in L.A.

The publish date for this post may say April 23, 2019, but really... it is June 25, 2020.

Yes, I am posting retroactively...

Irenia Part 2 - The Food

As promised...

this post will feature the food we had for my pre-bday dinner at Irenia in Santa Ana...

Irenia Part 1 - The decor + the art exhibit, "Maiden Voyage" by Patricia Ybanez

I'd recently read about Irenia and was excited to know that it was written up favorably by the late LA Times food critic, Jonathan Gold.

Since we were staying overnight at my brother in law's pad for the evening, Irenia was the perfect spot in keeping with my birthday crawl theme...

Day after highlights...

Here are some highlights from the Day After My Birthday...

at a coffee stop in Eagle Rock...

Birthday Highlights - I'm now 25 x 2

Well now...

I remember when my parents hit the half century mark...

Pre-Birthday Highlights

I know it's been a while since I blogged but we were in the midst of a remodel.

Through the magic of backdating (this is really 5/16 folks...), I will be posting highlights from my milestone birthday last month...

(passing by the deactivated San Onofre nuclear power plant, but I just call it the "tits")

in which Bert, myself and TC took a Friday off to spend a 3-day weekend in the OC and LA...

New Year's Eve Breakfast with friends & Dinner at home

Fresh from hosting our holiday party last Friday,

We hosted one more event with friends...

Christmas Party with Friends 2018

We recently hosted a party at our pad...

This is a piece I bought from Project Reo Collective's past Loteria art exhibit this past spring. It's called "Ang Estrelya", a Filipino take on the Mexican loteria card for "La Estrella" (the "star"; the artist is Nina Cristobal of Nina Cee Studio)...

Christmas Day Lunch 2018

Now for Pancit Bihon 2.0

This time for Christmas Day lunch at the male sibling's abode...

Christmas Eve Dinner 2018

First of all,  Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to those that celebrate!

This vacation was spent with great company and good homemade food...

Tambayan Filipino BBQ and Grill

I was at a community function earlier today,

and had plans to go out with D, who picked me up from said function...

Return to Sarap Filipino Kitchen: Stop 2 of TORC's Birthday Crawl

Our second stop that morning was here...

at the new'ish Sarap over by the Pyramid on Miramar Road...

Sarap Filipino Kitchen

After my twocup caffeine fix at Jaunt,

it was just a short drive to a new Filipino restaurant on Miramar Road...

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 2 - Dinner part 1: Big Boi Filipino Comfort Food, Sawtelle

Fast forward to a few hours later...we hadn't been on this street since TC was a toddler and Giant Robot had the now defunct hipster-before-hipster-was-a-thing at GR Eats back in 2003...

We parked at an overpriced lot with a mafia looking dude collecting money...

Mexipino Craft

Yesterday I was out with two of the Educator GF's...

TORC was MIA but will hopefully join D, KD and I in our future excursion...

Sarap Tikman 2 - Overdue post

I realize this event occurred almost one year ago...

but better late than never, heh...

Oi Asian Fusion

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting up with CAB.

We were originally going to do a South Bay taco truck crawl but...