Long time no eat!

That's right, how long has it been? Two years! Well not much has
changed and here I am eating Trader Joe's penne pepperonata... Not bad
at all actually :)

Did Hungry Vince starve?

Uh-oh, I haven't updated my fascinating food diaries for almost four days! What's going on? Do not worry, Hungry Vince is still hungry and hasn't starved himself into a coma quite yet so all is good, updates will follow later ;)

Thursday, August 23

Lunch: well it happened: delicious vietnamese cuisine that re-heated pretty well. Now I understand the whole meaning of to-go boxes for left-overs. Happy belly!

Dinner: Another late evening, and we had literally pounds of pizza (just 5 slices!) in the fridge at work.. So I had one slice with a yogurt and a banana. I'm sure we'll eventually run out of pizza and some healthier meals will magically show up.

I need to work on my magic skills.

Wednesday, August 22: Dinner

The plan was to come home and eat those left-overs that have my name on it, but instead quite a few of us stayed at work and we had some food delivered. It was some Patxi's Chicago Pizza, crazy thick pizza weighing something like 10lbs each.. I had a slice and a half and I was done! Crazy! They were pretty good too. They fueled us for the rest of the evening, all good.

Wednesday, August 22: Lunch

Now, will you believe this? This morning I prepared a nice lunch-box full of good things to have a good healthy lunch and as I was about to walk out the door I received a phone call.. I answered and my mono-task brain focused on the conversation, and when I was done and ready to go I left my lunch-box behind :-/ So no left-overs for me today. Instead I joined the team to go the little Hawaiian place, and I have a healthy avocado salad. Yum and green!

Tuesday, August 21

Fairly predictable lunch, unexpected "dinner" tonight.. Lunch was left-over pizza from yesterday's lunch, good enough, and dinner was some kind of hot dog at the Google Dance (I was a guest there tonight.)

I think I'm seeing a pattern here: if I were to rate my meals and plot the result on a graph over the past two weeks, I think the line would be going down and to the right i.e. not too good. Luckily I have plenty of yummy left-overs for the next couple of days so it might raise the average a little bit.. :)

Monday, August 20: Dinner

Oooh, dinner was a special event tonight! I was invited by a friend with connections to a tasting dinner at Ana Mandara in San Francisco, a restaurant serving modern vietnamese cuisine with a french twist in a very plush atmosphere. The courses were described and served directly by Chef Khai himself and the food was just delicious. Great food, great people, good times :-) Somehow I ended up with some left-overs in a box so you might see me talk about this delicious food again soon.. Oh, and extra props to Chef Khai for hosting his blog on Blogger :-)
(I'd also recommend going to visit the interior of the restaurant; the decoration is pretty amazing.)

Monday, August 20: Lunch

For lunch our team went to a small pizza place in Palo Alto (I believe it was N.Y. Pizza on Hamilton.) I had a mini 8'' vegetarian and could only eat half of it -- I guess I know what I'm having for lunch tomorrow ;)

Sunday, August 19: Trading with Joe for Dinner

I followed Tina's suggestion to visit Trader Joe's frozen section and sure enough they seem to have some decent things there! A lot of the stuff is organic with little preservatives and not much cancer-inducing ingredients it looks like. I picked up a few things, and tonight I had Trader Giotto's Pesto Pizza.. After 11 minutes in the oven I had something that tasted pretty decent and was warm for once! Awesome.

Wine: Robert Mondavi Private Selection Cabernet-Sauvignon 2005. While I was at Trader Joe's I picked up a couple of bottles < $10 as people always talk about them. I like the Mondavi wines that tend to be 2-3 times as much so I figured I'd try that one.. A little young but it worked out nicely :)

Sunday, August 19: Lunch

Light lunch today as I wanted to go out in the sun and time was running tight: multi-grain bread + cheese (emmentaler, appenzeller), bread + nutella (bwahahaha YUM YUM), yogurt, peach, done deal. On the road. Bye!