I often wonder whether I should quit law school and become a professional photographer.
Sour Cream Banana Cake:
5. Remove baking cups from cakes.
This is the finished product. Get a fork, a glass of milk, and devour away.
So we boiled the eggs and then I prepared the colors, 1/2 cup warm water plus 3 tbsp vinegar and a tablet of dye. Turns out the red is really orange, and blue and green dyes the best.
I used the wax crayon to draw on the eggs before dipping it in the dye. It's kinda hard to draw on a white egg with a clear wax crayon and not be able to see what you just drew. Turned out okay, I guess. At least you can tell this one is a flower.
The plate of finished eggs, sitting and drying. There was a weird looking rabbit that I drew -- it was kinda sadistic looking. Oh well, I'll be breaking up the eggs and making egg salad in about an hour.
The ribs were finger licking good (although, PF Changs is probably not the kind of place to start licking your fingers at the table). The sauce was probably hoison based, and the meat was nice and tender, sliding off the bone with ease.
The chicken lettuce wraps were delicious, too. To make it more authentic, a side of hoison sauce should have been included -- oh wait, that's Peking duck, nevermind.
I was quite surprised that the fried shrimp dumplings (image below - up close and personal) were quite large in size. I was expecting dumplings that were about an inch and a half in diameter, but these things were almost two inches all around. I wasn't able to pop a whole dumpling in my mouth, which is what I normally do. I had to bite it and break it apart.
The "surprise" of the meal were the shotglasses full of dessert. We had asked for the dessert menu, and instead the waiter came by with this arrangement of shotglasses of various kinds of desserts ("I'm the dessert boy tonight, can I interest you in a shot?"). There were eight different shots, ranging from PF Changs Great Wall of Chocolate Cake to Carrot Cake.
To satisfy our dessert craving, we chose the Strawberry Cheesecake (shown below) and the Banana Sundae (shown above). For $2 a shot, it was a perfect size to quell the sweet tooth and not have any guilt associated with eating a regular slice of cheesecake or a whole banana split sundae.
All in all, it was a perfect portioned meal. By sharing three appetizers and having these smaller versions of the dessert, we had variety, we felt full and satisfied, and most importantly, we didn't feel like we had to throw up because we stuffed ourselves with too much food.
Next time I'm at PF Changs, I'm totally going to forgo real food and just eat the eight different shots of dessert.
There's a video of this q-pig rapping too. It is HILARIOUS!! I could not stop laughing. I don't know if I want the actual pig or the necklace it's wearing.
Above, is my "side order" of sphaghetti and "side order" of spicy sausage. I refrained from getting the side order of 1/2 pound meatball (the meatballs were HUGE when a waiter walked by with another table's order of the meatballs).
Below, is the "side order" of fetteccini alfredo. I'm putting side order in quotes because according to our waiter, a side order is sufficient for a single serving. It was not, it was twice that. I could have shared my dinner with another person.
Above, the chicken parmeson, which looked really tasty. The couple of the evening were the only ones who was actually eating "family style" because they shared this dish, along with a side of sphaghetti.
Below, the only one at the table to eat dessert ordered the apple crostata. Even dessert was served with the purpose of sharing. Now, if I wasn't cold and hungry for some warm food, I might have eaten a whole dessert myself. We'll have to test that theory out next time.
And the entire time we were eating our giant size meal, C and I were fortunate enough to be seated in front of this picture. Imagine it being larger in size, and just staring at you in the face. It was quite disturbing. It was so hard to try and NOT look at it, that I kept looking at it. *shudders*
