WIAW - New SF Resident Edition

I was all set to do a WIAW-style post for today but then I realized my “lately” as a whole as a lot more interesting than the omelet that I was having for breakfast. Since officially becoming a San Francisco resident as of a week ago, I’ve so enjoyed exploring new (super trendy) places, cooking in my new kitchen for Nate, and lots of different workouts. So here is a roundup of everything I’ve been eating lately in my new city!

BREAKFASTS

While I definitely am a creature of habit, I changed it up for breakfast almost every day last week!

BRUNCHES

Went to two awesome brunches with girlfriends this past weekend, and sampled some of San Francisco’s trendiest and best. This omelet from Foreign Cinema blew my mind. It was one of those omelets which I would definitely not be able to recreate at home. Finely chopped herbs and morels were cooked into the eggs, with an edible flower salad on the side.

Brunch at Jane was much more casual and also delicious. I had the “breakfast salad” which had arugula and frisee with a soft boiled egg, bacon, and a shallot vinaigrette. I had to sample something off of their overpriced toast menu, so I went with the quinoa bread with jam. I enjoyed it with no irony - seriously - this city just gets me. My brunch date and I are starting a book club! Any suggestions for the first read?

LUNCH

Been enjoying all forms of salads and leftovers for lunch recently.

DINNER

I had a blast cooking all sorts of dinners last week. I only get so many weeks a year that I don’t travel and can enjoy all my meals at home!

You can find the recipe for those delicious noodles here!

Dinner out at the famed Burma Superstar was “super” interesting and delicious. We called ahead and only had to wait like 5 minutes, but there was a line out the door. While similar to other southeast asian foods, Burmese cuisine has flavors that I’ve never experienced before - like the tea leaf salad, which was a bunch of vegetables and seeds mixed in a tea dressing. And some of the noodles cooked in a sweet coconutty curry.

We even experimented with Blue Apron as a gift from my aunt (thank you Mary!!) but with our dietary restrictions we had to do several workarounds. While the Blue Apron people told me that many of their meals didn’t include gluten, both dinners that were sent to us included both wheat and dairy. We did try some tasty dishes and learned a few new things, so overall it was really fun. This one was shrimp tacos with pineapple slaw - we bought corn tortillas to swap the flour ones they provided, and used our own dressing. Loved the pineapple avocado salsa!

WORKOUTS

It’s been fun to explore the neighborhoods around us with runs - I’ve find myself stumbling upon the corner of the Haight-Ashbury or a line out the door for some famous patisserie. It’s a great way to get to know the city. I also tried SoulCycle for the first time, and I thought it was a good class but honestly nothing I haven’t seen before. I kinda expected to have an epiphany given all of the hype, but I love the other spin studios I’ve gone to equally. I just love spinning. I should really get back into teaching…

But all I’ve really wanted to do recently is yoga. Maybe because it’s so cold in San Francisco, building heat through some vinyasas sounds more than appealing! I’ve been attending hot vinyasa classes both in SF and in Spokane. As I write this, I’m all sweaty from one earlier today!

MISC

And another fun thing of our “lately” was seeing Kairos in concert performing with Tomten. A friend from childhood just destined to do music from an early age, I was thrilled when one of her bands was coming through San Francisco and we could go see her perform!

So there you have it! That’s my lately!