Bon Epi yet again

This will be a quick and dirty post...

Bon Epi was our next stop. A first for my SIL but a welcome revisit for me...

It was time to try out a few other flavors...

ROCQ Cafe

Update - ROCQ Cafe closed by the end of summer 2013. :(

Yesterday, we visited with Bert's oldest brother and his family in Aliso Viejo. The original plan was to hang out at the beach and shops in San Clemente, but if you may recall, the weather was a bit chilly and glooomy.  Therefore, those plans were shelved and Bert, his bro and the kids went to these posh facilities to swim while my sis in law and I went on what I called "a dessert adventure".

Thank goodness she was willing to go along with my nefarious plans!

First up on my list was a place that she actually knew of...

and it was only a few minutes away from their house!

So off we went for the first stop of our sugar filled day...

Michele Coulon Dessertier

After my fab lunch with Dennis and Jinxi at Bella Vista Cafe, I headed out to downtown La Jolla...

I haven't been here in ages and I was a bit unnerved by all the stop and go traffic on the surface streets. I guess I'm a driving wimp, but I quickly overcame this feeling knowing I would be checking out some good desserts in a few minutes...

Tim Hortons and snacks from Metro Plus

Our nature walk to the Falls left us tired, hungry and thirsty! What better excuse than to visit one of the thousands of  "Timmy's" (Tim Hortons) that are all over Canada...

By now, it was in the 90's and a frozen drink sounded good about now...

A twist on two adobo recipes

A few weeks ago, we tried a couple of adobo recipes from Marvin's new cookbook...

Here they are paired up with some salad and a baked fish fillet.

The recipe were so easy that TC and Bert were the ones who executed the dishes...

Rainbow cupcakes

While the Brown Sugar Pie was baking, TC started up on another recipe...

She liked the rainbow cupcake we had at Love Cupcake Cafe so she thought she would try making her own...

Bella Vista Social Club and Caffe

Sometime last week, I had the pleasure of lunching with Mr. Radiused Corner himself, Dennis as well as the lovely Jinxi of JinxiEats...

Our lunch spot was on the campus of the Sanford Consortium which is located on the same street as the Torrey Pines Glider Port...

Crystal Pier in PB

I think the painted utility boxes in the different neighborhoods of San Diego are interesting. You see so many different designs that reflect the "culture" of the neighborhood. For example, in IB, you see a lot of ocean scenes like waves and surfing.

This was in PB and it was a pink flamingo...

which I only thought lived in our zoo!  I guess they were going for that "tropical" look...

At the end of Ocean and Garnet is another one of San Diego's beach piers...

It's not as long as the one in OB or in IB, but it does have its charms...

Brown Sugar Pie

A few days ago, we finally decided to make us to the red fluted pie plate I got as an Xmas gift...

The fluted edges make it a snap to have a relatively easy crimped edge with minimal effort. Now, that's what a lazy baker like me likes...

There was a newspaper clipping on Southern pies that I saved and this was the easiest one to do...

Kaelins Mi Pueblo

Our next stop after Valley Foods was another ethnic market...

This time it was the "reverse", a Mexican market with a Middle Eastern twist...

EscoGelato

Now where were we?

Oh yeah...dessert part two!

which was here at a gelato place that I looked up on yelp at the last minute before leaving the house!