Salvadoran Enchiladas

Ever since I came back to El Salvador, I have been treated to some delicious breakfast!

Over here we have the Salvadoran enchiladas... people asked me, aren't enchiladas supposed to be like a big mexican lasagna? I said there are many types of enchiladas, but these ones are Salvadoran!

Its a deep fried corn tortilla, topped with shredded chicken, refried beans, hard-boiled eggs, cabbage, shredded cheese and some ketchup! yummy!

Today my day was: delicious!

I ate a lot..in fact, too much for one day!

I spent the day at Piedmont , in Oakland, CA. There is a street full of restaurants and dessert places, and I was tempted to try all of them!

We went to Boot and Shoe Service. A nice spot for pizza and hot apple cider. Food was exquisite, but I only enjoyed the potato pizza because the sausage pizza turned out to be super spicy...which is something I cannot handle.

Afterwards we headed to Fenton's creamery. The ice cream place that appears in the movie "Up" by Pixar. We had some coffee with crushed Oreo cookies. yummy!

After some ice cream we headed to a shop that sells bobba drinks. I didn't want more dessert for the day, but my sister insisted since she had one stamp left to get her free drink. OK i said and there we were, stuffing ourselves even more!

Later today we had Hamburgers for dinner. I wanted to opt for something healthier since we had pizza for lunch. But the moment I saw the pictures on Yelp, I couldnt resist but to try them the same day. I had an Alaskan Salmon burger with onions and mushroom. The portions were huge! So much for a day! I was stuffed ^.^

Dessert was not an option anymore, but my friend managed to drag us to a gelato place called Lush, and we had a pint of orange gelato. So light and citric.. it was just right.

I just got back home and I'm so full that I cannot walk. I thought I had learned my lesson about gluttony...but there are just so many good places to eat in California! So many...that I just can't miss out. Have to enjoy while it lasts!

Gypsys Trattoria Italiano! A small Italian restaurant located on Telegraph Avenue, in Berkeley.

This place is amazing! Affordable prices and great food. I fed three not-starving bellies for under $25!

I had a big lunch at a Thai restaurant in San Francisco, and so I thought I was not going to enjoy an early dinner as much. I was wrong. The moment I ate their Combo Calzone my appetite was back! Today we had Combo Calzone, Pollo Gorgonzola and Chicken Gnocchi. All of them were great. I enjoyed the tomato sauce from the Pollo Gorgonzola more than the white creamy sauce from Chicken Gnocchi. The tomato sauce was so flavorful, but the chicken was a little bit dry. Additionally, the gnocchi was delicious !

I also went to the UC Berkeley campus and walked around, taking pictures of some beautiful buildings including The Campanile.

Weather forecast said it was going to rain today. But it didnt happen, we got plenty of sunshine but also plenty of wind! I just made sure I stayed under the sun and not the shade =P

New Year...New goals?

I'm not sure if I should set new goals for this year if I havent even managed to complete the previous ones.

I am currently on zombie mode- a totally inappropriate mode to be on when setting goals- but that's because the end of the year didn't end as i expected.

There are things that are just simply out of our hands- I had to spend Christmas and New year's away from my family. I have my sister here with me, and if we didn't have each other I would totally go into a deep state of depression. I feel lonely sometimes though, maybe because I haven't learnt to appreciate what surrounds me. We sometimes place to much importance on some things/people that when something related to that does not work out, our world seems to fall apart.

I have just come to realize, that things should not be that way. I have people that truly care about me, although its only a handful of them, and I haven't really learned to see the value in them.

My fave motto is: what goes around comes around.

And my fave rule to live by is: the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Still working on my goals for this year.---- one which I can't miss is the health goal - to become more active, exercise more! let's make it happen.