Burritos, San Francisco-style

Day 1: Get picked up from the airport and immediately scarf down a huge burrito from a place close to the Ferry Building. Not a memorable taqueria, I was just so damn hungry.

There it is, in all its glory. Rice, black beans, cheese, chicken, salsa, guac.

Day 3: Hunger got me once again.  This is from La Cascada in Berkeley.  Zucchini may be a delicious vegetable, but it doesn’t taste good with rice, beans, and pesto.

Mexican Fiesta (Or, Yes, You May Watch The Giants Game And Eat My Food)

This was fun, and thanks to the help of my lovely sous chefs, a success!   I have thus decided that Mexican food is a good genre to work with when feeding about 15 friends–the cooking is easy enough and the result is positive (seriously, who doesn’t like Mexican food!?)

Shrimp with chives, lemon juice, lime juice. I deveined every single one of those 60+ suckers because I didn’t want to pay extra for the already deveined ones. Luckily, the poop-free shrimp was probably the crowd favorite.

Chicken with what I attempted to be a taco seasoning (chili pepper, garlic, red pepper flakes, whatever else looked good in the spice counter).

Jon’s ground beef concoction.  There’s way too many ingredients in here to list. But it was tasty and kind of sweet.

Pepperjack fondue with more peppers.

Rice with black beans and tomato puree. Needed more tomatoes. Also could have made about a quarter of what I did (3 cups is WAY too much!).

Mexican Wedding Cookies, a la Cecily. Pshaw, and she thought she couldn’t cook. These were phenomenal. Then again, how can cookies with 2 sticks of butter not be good?

Sangria with lots of citrus.

Most of the table.

Also present: goat cheese, mushroom, pesto quesadillas (they went too fast for me to take a picture!).

Rosa Mexicano: At Least The Guac Was Pretty

I’m not really sure why this place is always so crowded. The guacamole was fun, but mostly because it comes in a stone bowl and not because it actually tasted that incredible. Likewise, the sangria was decent but nothing special. The salmon was WAY too dry and overcooked–definitely NOT the medium rare that I ordered. Overall, an uninteresting experience.  The food wasn’t bad, it was just boring.

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www.rosamexicano.com, various locations, I was at 61 Columbus Ave @ 62nd St