Tue 2/8: #BowlingBlowout at Lake Forest with 12 Food Trucks!
Month: February 2011
Feb 10: Pomona, CTC College Textbook Center
W. LA: Lee’s Philly, Che Truck, India Jones, Lomo Arigato, Chunk n Chip
Every Monday there’s a gathering at 10601 W. Washington Blvd. It’s pretty far from Orange County (over an hour with decent traffic) so I took advantage of my day off to check it out with Karen and Martin.
Karen started us off by going to Lees Philly and got the Gogi beef taco, and I went to India Jones for the Samosa, an order of nan bread, and a chicken “Frankie”, a roti rolled up with curried chicken, cilantro tamarind chutney, chopped onion and egg.
Martin went to (Argentine) Che Truck and ordered the grilled chimichurri steak salad, and I got the pork empenada (the el Fidel) to split with Karen.
The empenada was a little too spicy for Karen, so we also split an order of noodles from Lomo Arigato.
For dessert, Martin and Karen split the Goober Doober, boo-yah made of a chocolate chocolate chip cookie + chocolate chip cookie that sandwiches a mint chocolate chip ice cream.
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| Gogi beef taco from Lee’s Philly |
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| Samosa from India Jones |
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| The chicken “Frankie” |
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| Nan from the India Jones Chow Truck
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| Chimichurri steak over salad from The Che Truck |
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 The El Fidel empenada from the Che Truck |
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| Lomo Arigato’s noodles |
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| Chunk N Chip |
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| The Doober Goober boo-yah |
Irvine: Piaggio on Wheels
It’s wonderful to be back in Orange County! Today’s weather is supposed to be in the 80’s, and I’m wearing a t-shirt, jeans and flip flops.
Karen and I took today off from work to recuperate from the trip. For lunch we drove to Irvine for Piaggio, who was parked on Discovery near the Spectrum.
Karen had her usual two empenadas, chimi rice & zucchini. I had the skirt steak taco with chimi sauce, caprese empenada, with rice & veg, and two pulled pork sliders. Its great to be back home!!
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| Sunny… with no chance of snow! |
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| Two empenadas with chimi rice and zuchini |
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| Pulled pork sliders |
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| Argentine steak taco and empenada with chimi rice & zuchini |
REDONDO BEACH: Sneak peek of the #SouthBayFoodFest on April 16!!
This is just A PEEK of the South Bay Food Fest.
Check back as more trucks will be added as soon as they’ve been confirmed.
SAVE THE DATE
APRIL 16th 10:00AM-4:00PM
1100 N. Harbor Drive at Redondo Beach , CA 90277
Denver: Walnut a GoGo
When we were walking through the Artist Walk, we came across this truck. They were not ready for service, so we took a few photos. Unfortunately, we were unable to make it back later.
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| one of many trucks I found at the Denver First Friday art walk |
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Apologies for the format change
My old Droid died on me and I had to reload all new apps on this new phone. The app for this blog is slightly different, such as posting the description first, then the photos.
What I do is blog from my phone so I don’t forget the names of the food I had. The new app seems to shuffle my pictures, so It won’t be any logial order until I edit them on my laptop at home.
I hope you don’t mind the new format, and reading my blah, blah, blahs before seeing the final product :=}
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| A piece of art at the Denver Art Walk |
Denver: Basic Kneads Pizza truck
Our final stop at the Denver Art Walk was the Basic Knead Pizza truck. The truck is a converted FedEx truck with a wood burning oven.
The truck can make pizzas to order, but unfortunately you can only get a 10″ pie, not by the slice.
We picked up two pies: a Margharita & “the Wise Guy”: Olive oil, Mozzarella, Sausage & Rosemary.
The truck can make pizzas to order, but unfortunately you can only get a 10″ pie, not by the slice.
We picked up two pies: a Margharita & “the Wise Guy”: Olive oil, Mozzarella, Sausage & Rosemary.
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| Basic Kneads Truck (@IKneadPizza)
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| Right out of the oven… the Wise Guy |
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| Making pizza for the foodies with a smile! |
Denver: Stick Food
After leaving Crock Spot, we found Stick Food. We picked a medley of items to take back to the hotel:
Waffle with nutella (on a stick), Angus beef and chicken, and Mashed potato balls.
Waffle with nutella (on a stick), Angus beef and chicken, and Mashed potato balls.
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| Mashed potato balls |
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| inside the mashed potato balls |
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| Angus beef & organic chicken |
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| Waffle with nutella drizzed on top |
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| Found them on Santa Fe & 8th Street at the Art Walk! |
Denver: Crock Spot
While wandering around the Denver Artist Walk, we spotted Crock Spot at an art gallery.
The concept for Crock Spot is simple.Pick a grain. Pick a meat. Pick a sauce.
The concept for Crock Spot is simple.Pick a grain. Pick a meat. Pick a sauce.
Karen selected couscous with chicken and mushrooms. We also took a jalapeno beef over barley with chipotle & chimichurri back to the hotel.
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| The Barley w/ Jalapeno beef with the Chimichurri & Chipotle sauce |
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| CousCous with Chicken & Mushrooms and a Tzaziki sauce |
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| Made to order |
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| Medley of ingredients to select |
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| Mandy & Stephen serving up Denver with a smile at Art Walk |
looking for food trucks 