Foodcation

It shouldn't come as a surprise to my loyal readers, but most of the picture I took of my trip to San Diego were of food. So I figured the best way to write about my trip, was really to do it through the food I ate. Don't worry I didn't take a picture of everything. There was a meal or two where I forgot my camera, plus I didn't think you needed to see a picture of the handfuls of cheez-it mix I snacked on at the hotel. But here's the rest. Presenting, my Weekend Foodcation in San Diego.

The boy booked our hotel, and choose the Doubletree downtown. I was excited when I heard this, since I knew Doubletrees are the cookie hotel. Sure enough when we checked in Thursday afternoon they presented us with warm chocolate chip cookies.
After we checked in, we took a walk in search of an early dinner. We wound up at the BurgerLoungue where I had a turkey burger and we split an order of fries.
The best part of the burger was the amount of basil in the patty. I thought I was an inspired idea that turned out to be really tasty.

The following morning, we had breakfast in the hotel, and I went with the breakfast pasta.
It was pasta with sausage, feta, spinach, tomatoes, and scrambled eggs. Another inspired idea, but it didn't quite turn out. It just felt a little oily, and wasn't as good as I had hoped. But I'm sure you could easily take this idea and turn it into something pretty amazing.

Friday night was my grandma's birthday dinner at Operacafe. I went with mushroom ravioli with bolognese sauce.
For dessert the boy and I "split" a rum soaked cake.
And by split I mean he took one bite, and I ate the rest. A perfect way to split dessert from my point of view.

Friday morning it was back to the hotel for breakfast.
This time I went with the macadamia nut French toast, which wound up being a much better choice than the breakfast pasta.

For lunch that day we stopped at Point Loma Seafood, where I decided on fish tacos.
I really love fish tacos in general, but they're a dish that really hasn't caught on in Louisiana yet. So I try to make a point to have them almost anytime I'm back in California.

For our last meal in California, I made sure we went to Panera.
Panera was my favorite in college, and I probably went once a month. Unfortunately for me, Panera has yet to make it to Louisiana, which means this was my first time eating Panera in almost four years. I went with an old favorite, french onion soup in a bread bowl with half an Asian chicken salad.

While Panera was the last meal in San Diego, it wasn't the last thing I ate. Instead that was dessert at Ben & Jerry's.
I went with another old favorite here, triple caramel chunk. I used to love this flavor, until Ben & Jerry's stopped making it. Then wound up bringing it back somewhat recently, and its just as good as ever.

I think it might be a little crazy that I can recap my trip with just the food. But I try to post some non-edible highlights as well. But until then, anyone else ever go on a trip and come back to discover almost all of the photos were taken of food?

~Shoshanah