Tuesday 6 October 2009

CACTUS PEAR SALSA & OOGA BOOGA


I can see why Dante gets shirty about the produce in the LDN if you want some Mexican ingredients. Costcutter? This breakfast was made in homage to the big man. We went to local store and got back made a hot cactus pear salsa to go with our eggs, scrambled with roasted tomatillos, two different chillis and smoked chipoltes, wrapped in fresh corn tortillas from the local tortillaria. For sides we made breakfast collards with garlic and onions and a kinda loose hash browns with habarnero and garlic. Lazy, late morning breakfasts in the sun. Echo Park rules, man.




After breakfast I felt like sleeping, but we did it LA steez with a shop day down Melrose and hit APC for denim (blue) and Marc Jacobs for denim (black) before swinging to China Town to check out Ooga Booga, an awesome art / fashion / zine / music store which I've been wanting to check out forever. Even picked up a Sumi Ink Club / David Scott Stone 7" and another one of my firsts... a Vietnamese Sandwich, which for some reason aren't slanged in the UK. Another random food/snack obsession, it was good... a super fresh French / Viet baguette stuffed random meats, with pickled carrots & daikon, lettuce and coriander. Though I'm gonna have to pick this tale up again in NYC... where was the Vietnamese pate?




After a Thai dinner with Brother Reade and Them Jeans it was onwards to Eagle Rock and Highland Park to meet up with AMBER with homegirls Karla and Christina for pre-wedding draaanks.... with whiskey and a wine called Menage A Trois. Big in the Napa, yo. Next stop... was an early morning, hungover wake up call and a road trip down to San Diego.



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