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Apr 16, 2011

If I knew you were coming I'd have baked some cupcakes

I took today off to do some 826 stuff and dragged Randall with me. He's not sure he's up for hanging with the kids, so I wanted him to see what's up. Afterwards, we stopped by missions cheese for a sandwich and some mac and cheese. They were out of a lot of stuff already, but it was tasty. If I lived or worked right there it would be dangerous.

Later I decided to live the life domestic. I doctored up a cupcake recipe adding vanilla bean yogurt (pics later I haven't done the frosting yet) and then got inspired to make dinner.

One of the dishes at benu was a jasmine chicken with dates. It was served cold and was very delicate. I loved it and was inspired to do a tea chicken of my own. I used some of the delicate Taiwanese tea morm gave me and roasted a chicken with oranges and dates over it. The flavor profile was good (maybe a little heavy handed on the dates), but the actual tea flavors could've been a little bit bolder. I'm excited to try it again though.


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