Burma Super Star

Today for lunch we visited Burma Super Star. The restaurant has been featured on TV shows, in magazines and is very popular among folks who love great tasting food. Many people have been bugging me to eat at the restaurant, and I am very happy that we finally went!! Make reservations if you plan to go around lunch time or for dinner. We went at 2:30 and it was slowing down. It is small inside and loud, but in all good fun. We ordered a few dishes to share. The salad was fabulous. It arrived on a square plate with all the ingredients untossed. It was really great looking and fresh tasting. It was the first time I had eaten tea leaves. The soup had the perfect spice, not too hot but with a kick. The beef and tofu dish was so tender, flavorful and very pretty in color. I am going to go back, soon!

Tea Leaf Salad * Salad prepared with imported Burmese tea leaves, tomatoes, lettuce, fried garlic, sesame seeds, peanuts, and split yellow peas

Vegetarian Samusa Soup * Made with samusas broken up with falafels, lentils, cabbage, and onions

Fiery Beef with Tofu* Stir fried beef with tofu, string beans, red bell peppers, and basil in our five spice, sweet heat sauce

a good thing

Avon Breast Cancer Walk

It’s that time of year again: time to hear my plea for support in another Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. This will be my second year participating in this event. This year’s walk is July 12-13 in San Francisco and I’m hoping to raise enough money to break the $5,000 mark for my cumulative total for the two years. The money funds the education and screening of women who might not otherwise be diagnosed, as well as research. 

You may be wondering how you can help. Here’s one way, I am required to fundraise a minimum of $1800 to walk, but my goal is $2,500! I am willing to walk the walk, but I need your financial support to make that happen. 

To contribute online, you can go to my personal web page or if you’d prefer to write a check, I’ll be glad to send you a form. Thanks again for your support – both financial and moral. It means more to me than I can say in an email. With your money and my blistered feet, we can touch the lives of so many people who need our help.

Eat Outside the Box

Eat outside the box is my new favorite thing. Each Tuesday for the next few months I am receiving food from the Knoll Family farms.

How it works: Once a week we get a variety of organic products grown from the garden. We get to pack up and weight our portions when we pick them up. I have always wanted to work at a grocery store.

This week we received a large variety of rabe greens, Italian rapini greens, fava bean greens, tangelos, green garlic and baby carrots. Everything looks so nutritious. Can it look nutritious? I have never cooked with rapini and am very excited.

For dinner tonight I cooked the fava pea greens, which cook like swiss chard [my favorite], green garlic and sausages over creamy polenta. It was really good. I am planning on making a garlic pasta with the rapini.