A Foodie Sorta Day

Los Angeles, CA

Crab grass is tenacious

 Acquiring Dessert for Tomorrow

We were invited to a BBQ in Long Beach tomorrow.  We have 2 dog friends (we met them at dog beach when we all had Italian Greyhounds) that we haven't seen in many years so we let them know we are in town.  We were invited over for a back yard BBQ.  We asked what we could bring and they answered with the winning combination of dessert and beer.  Perfect!  More about this in tomorrow's post.  Today is about getting the dessert.

There is a Filipino Bakery that Donna has been eyeing for a week now.  They have a cake called Sans Rival (literally translated, Without Rival).  We decided that this is the dessert we would bring.  The bakery is only about a mile away so we walked and picked up 4 individual cakes.  It's a cake with layers of cashew meringue, French buttercream, and it's topped with chopped cashews.  We can't wait to try it tomorrow.

My Mom's Bakeshop

The Sans Rival Cakes

Another Checklist Item

Our next trip involved pulling the car out of its cubby hole and driving to Hollywood.  We left at around 2pm in hopes that traffic would be light.  We were after the famous Zankou Chicken.  Zankou is an Armenian and Mediterranean fast food restaurant with falafel, wraps, kebabs, shawerma, and rotisserie chicken.  We were there for the chicken.  It's the best!  We got a family meal featuring 1 whole chicken, hummus, turnip pickles, garlic paste, pitas, and more pickles.  Yes, a lot of pickles!  They are so good!  

The Original Zankou Chicken in Hollywood. 
They have branched out so check, there might be one near you!

A shot of our family meal.  Look at all those pickles!

 
We had some of the meal for late lunch, some of the meal for a small dinner, and there is still plenty left to make chicken salad sandwiches with the white meat, left over pitas, and cut up pickles.  

Echo Park Farmers Market

The weekly Echo Park Farmers Market is today.  It opens at 3pm so we walked through the park and up to the farmers market.  We love a good farmers market.  This farmers market was on the smaller side.  We didn't buy anything but I got some good photos.

The Grand Entrance

Kind of sparse but it was a good midpoint for a nice walk

We might be back next week for veg

They had a flower stand

I thought these candles looked great

There was a guy buying micro greens.  I bet he was a chef.

Now your greens can be purple and pink!

I complimented this vendor on their beautiful display
and then walked away without buying anything.

After returning from the farmers market, we got in our lounge attire and continued binging the shows we have been waiting to watch.  We finished Pretend It's A City on Netflix and we started Netflix's Cowboy Bebop.  Tomorrow is another day in Orange County catching up with friends.  There is something to look forward to every day!  Talk tomorrow.

Want to read about yesterday?  See it here.