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sofarsogood

Posted 05 Jan 2010 — by lolo
Category Breakfast, Eating OUT, Hollywood, Newsroom, Umami, West LA, vegetarian

I’m starting this year off right, with the new camera my sister gave me for Christmas. Finally you might be able to see all the tofu you hate me for eating. Here’s a recap of this year so far:

After apparently looking possessed on New Years Eve

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Joanna, Brent, and Brent’s brother Bryan invited me to the Laker game.

Bryan went to the game dressed like this:

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Once he took his fur snuggie off, he was able maneuver his way to the fridge and leave a path of beverage destruction:

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Speaking of path of destruction, it’s funny when the Lakers trick another team into thinking they might win and then steal all the glory in the last 3 seconds. Kobe, you silly!

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The next morning my sister and I had breakfast at Newsroom on Robertson, where it took all my willpower not to order my favorite grilled veggie salad at 9am.

She had 4 pancakes disguised as one:

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very sneaky:

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I had Monja’s tofu scramble with spinach, caramelized onions, and broken vegan sausage bits:

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For vegans, I like their lunch options better than their breakfast ones. Mine was really good, but I wasn’t that excited about ordering it.

It left me full until dinner time, which again, I spent with my sister. Duh.

Michelle, Tracy and I went to the Umami Burger at Space 1520 in Hollywood…

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I wish I had tried this before I went vegan. Because if you order a veggie burger here it’s just not the same.

Tracy’s Umami Burger doesn’t look that exciting thanks to me not making him cut it in half. But he swears it’s the best burger he’s ever had.

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I got a veggie burger, no bun, since the bun isn’t vegan.

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My sister did too. She was pissed when it came and it was a basically a mushroom shaped like you know what. Until she ate it and realized it was actually a really good mushroom.

Good thing we also ordered a market salad with almonds and beets that look deceivingly like ahi tuna, onion rings and sweet potato french fries:

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The sweet potato fries tasted like tiny, southern, cinnamon-y churros. The onion rings were the mushroom’s redemption song in my sister’s heart and mind.

After dinner we geared up to watch The Story of the US invasion of Iraq Avatar.

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I’m not gonna lie, I liked it. But not as much as I love the cinematic spectacle that is my neighbor’s house:

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Happy New Year y’all.

extras

Posted 22 Nov 2009 — by lolo
Category Eating OUT, Newsroom, vegetarian

I want this for lunch everyday.

Grilled veggie salad, hold the basmati rice mix, add smoked tofu at Newsroom. Plus hot apple, lemon and ginger juice.

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Fuck. Seriously. It’s so good.

If you don’t know how to make me have lunch with you than a.) you’re not trying hard enough and b.) you haven’t suggested we get this meal yet.

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rightstart

Posted 22 Oct 2009 — by lolo
Category Breakfast, Eating OUT, Lulu's, Mani's, Newsroom

If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and I’m used to eating skillety eggs and omelettes and turkey bacon and real bacon and scrambles and turkey sausage and regular sausage and so on for breakfast…then what am I supposed to eat now that I don’t eat meat? or eggs? (if you are bored to death with my new eating habits, don’t run away just yet. it’ll all be over in 9 days).

I usually eat some variation of this granola, acai, soy milk, berry situation:

Newsroom on Robertson:

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Lulu’s on Beverly:

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tofu scramble with veggie sausage to mix it up:

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and a giant unacceptable pile of acai on top of granola at Mani’s that rendered me unable to eat another meal for an entire day. That does not normally happen in my world.

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you hate me? i’m boring?

as Dawn Penn once said–you don’t love me and I know now.