a thing in 1,308 photos food Healthy lunch! Happy taco birthday! Later that evening I met up with Caiti and we went over to Cynthia's for a birthday taco party! Veggie sushi and treats! What's a trip to Ikea without sampling the exotic Swedish delicacies in the cafeteria. C'mon, don't pretend you're also not interested in finding out what Elderflower juice tastes like! Mmmmmm. That evening Ellen came over to join us for the Mad Men season finale and Grant's puttanesca pasta with garlic bread and salad. My mom goes all out to support our vegetarianism. Haha. ...arugula & beet salad with blue cheese and a reduced-balsamic dressing. Soooo good. Doing it right! Lots of little things for dinner! Yes. Thanks, Grant! Bruschetta and... Spinach burrito. Mmm. Had my favorite bi bim bab lunch at Manna Express Kitchen during the break for lunch... Back at home that evening, I had vegetarian Vietnamese from Lan Cafe for dinner. Yes! On Saturday night, I went out to meet this guy in Williamsburg for beers & pretzels. So much fun. So good. Kicked of the month properly with some Motorino Pizzas. Last course! Dessert, OMG. Here's what one of our vegetarian courses looked like. I will eat at any place that has both donuts and biscuits! My favorite vegetarian sushi is made with avocados and honey-roasted peanuts! After a delicious breakfast... Dinner! ...for a feast he'd prepared! Dessert party! Veggie matzoh ball soup! Sooo good! We had just enough time at Narita to grab a sandwich. We went into town and had a late dinner on the beach with Bertl & Fraggle. Haha. ...then ALL OF THIS! The food was sooo good! Mango and cheese salad to start... I had an exotic French/Japanese fusion bagette for dinner. We decided to go out and explore the island culinary offerings and ended up finding a pizza place. About the best you can do as a vegetarian in the Philippines! ..that turned out to be solid! Later that evening, we went out for a late night dinner on the strip. Getting our airport Chinese on. Well, hello there! On Monday evening, Grant arrived back in NYC after visiting his family in the UK. We headed out to Motorino to celebrate his return! Lunch! Sunday morning karaoke recovery started with two of these. The best thing to soothe a karaoke-sore throat? How about a falafel with all the fixings and extra hot sauce! ...ridiculously delicious okonomiyaki ! OMG. Holy moly. Dinner! ...my delicious new friend, taco. Well, hello there! ...you all are way more fun than Skyrim! There was a very happy Seamless mix-up and we somehow ended up with both Thai food and Curly's for lunch. FEAST! Back at Shambhala early on Sunday for the second half of the meditation weekend. Staffing is nice because you get to sit a bunch, but you also get called out of the hall to run errands and set up snacks and create a nice place for the people who are taking the weekend proper. Inspired by Cynthia, we had our our own private taco party. Homemade veggie lasagna for dinner! Veggie cold cut sandwiches for dinner. Our crew pretty much took over the porch. ...for a nice light lunch. I was cashed after seven hours on the road, so we stopped off at a hotel in Chipley, FL. The only place that was open to get something to eat after 10pm was Pizza Hut. So we went for it. Mer and I stopped off and got ourselves a nice light dinner. Halo view. We went to a Thai place at some huge, open air mall. Family dinner later that evening. Awww, yeah. ...had ourselves a faaaacny dinner! Chris woke us up bright and early to go fishing. (Gove: IS THIS FOR FISHING?) Breakfast of champions. Steve and Chris representing for the "beefcake" side of the Battjer clan. The guys went surfing, I made a specialty of mine for lunch... More delicious tacos that night (to help get through the 28 pounds of beans we made one night...oooopsie!) I'm not very good at surfing, but I am excellent at enjoying breakfast with an ocean breeze. ...family style dinner courtesy of Chris' cooking skills! Early flight means I didn't bother going to sleep at all. Breakfast sandwich helped open my tiny eyes. Empanada-fest for dinner! Pear & apple pancakes. Mmmm. ...with a tasty salad! Homemade veggie-pepperoni bread for dinner... ...I met up with this guy and we got delicious spinach burritos at Puebla. So good. Veggie chicken, veggies... ...veggie pepperoni mini-pizzas... ...and chocolate chip pancakes! Mmmmm. Before bowling, we went to Blue Ribbon and got our feast on. I came home to a delicious homemade Thai dinner courtesy of Mer... ...feature a few familiar things... On Tuesday evening, I went out to the West Village to celebrate Davo & The KTB visiting from London! I took this first photo... Homemade blueberry pancakes for breffis... Healthy lunch with Mer and 7B and later in the evening... And Ellen was telling us about how she was really excited for her second date with some guy named Hans (!!!) that she'd met at the dog park. Followed by a delicious empanada dinner... ...middle of the night breakfast! Afterwards, we came back in to get something to eat... Healthy late night snacks! Cracker Barrel chocolate chip pancakes for the win. FRIED DOUGH! ...and then we had ourselves a Chinese feast for two! Had ourselves a nice Thai lunch... Meredith made Indian food for dinner. ...an awesome dinner and we watched Endless Summer on my laptop. We went over to Rockaway Taco and ordered up a feast! ...and some lunch... ...our food arrived before things went any further. 
