bloody mary

Fun things I find to eat, Restaurants

Oceana Restaurant, Palm Desert

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I haven’t mentioned any restairants lately so it’s time to get that back on track too…

We had a really nice lunch at Oceana Restaurant yesterday . It’s a seafood restaurant grounded in Central/South American flavors

Rather than the ubiquitous tortilla chip, you get cucumber and jicama with tajin while your sip your drink.

For lunch they have half price wine by the glass plus an array of tequila and vodka based drinks—-here’s my bloody. i missed snapping a pic of the Oceana Margarita that Jim had.

For our starter, we had lobster topped guacamole with a nice fruit sauce—note for future visits, the sauce is not vegetarian.

We both chose one of their shrimp dishes. Tequila Shrimp for me…

…and Chipotle Shrimp for him.

Overall this was a really nice find, fairly close to home. We intend to return.

Made at home, Uncategorized

Game of thrones risk and snacks…gluten free vegetarian finger sandwiches I might add.

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Friends coming for Game of Thrones Risk!  Snacks needed!  So obviously I chose to try out gluten free finger sandwiches…duh

It’s been years since I slaves over finger sandwiches slowly to ensure perfect shapes and filling and slicing without glopping, etc

Not Saturday…this was all about efficiency and flavor…not beauty (I and I swear I’m missing pics..,)   
The sandwiches picture here were made using 1 loaf of Udi’a bread (the small 6 dollar loaf not the big 12 dollar loaf)…but the bread has a very uneven top crust making cutting the sandwiches without too much waste difficult so the shapes are not uniform.

Above is pictured the grated carrot, curry, and some hot Indian spices…I loved it!
   
Also involved was cucumber dill, and my favorite-olive.  The loaf of Udi’s made precisely 6 sandwiches…two of each type which were cut into thirds

    
The typical veggie tray with an appearance by some Tokyo turnips

 

Creamy peppercorn dressing with penzeys spice base…and some cream cheese stuffed celery with a penzeys chipotle sprinkle
   
Yup…an attempt at pinwheels with Mission gluten free tortillas….garlic spinach cream cheese, and avocado/onion sprout/cream cheese…

    
Maria and Ryan brought a nice Espelon blanco tequila and Bloody Mary mix for a nice bloody Maria 

 

Sometime in the middle I broke free of the bloody Maria and Ryan and I shared my Stone vertical epic 12-12-12 that I have been clutching.
   

Jim and Maria were well and truly into the game even though Jim won..
 

Ryan was the first man out and spent time with his secret Ryan notebook.