October 5, 2003
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Big Ass Pumpkins
Eddie was compelled to take this photo because we don’t have pumpkins like these in Australia. Australians don’t really celebrate Halloween (at least not with jack-o-lanterns) and our pumpkins are green on the outside. So, these big bright orange ones look really really cool to us. They look almost fake. You don’t eat these, do you?
Halloween pumpkins at the supemarket
Wat Thai
On Saturday afternoon, Joel took us to Wat Thai, a Buddhist temple on Coldwater Canyon, North Hollywood. On the weekends, the temple grounds are alive with Thai families and food stalls selling cheap and authentic Thai food. The food was excellent and the vibe was great.
We had papaya salad, a coconut-creamy fish mousse (that resembled Malaysian otak-otak), satays, and L.A.’s best pad thai. Dessert was mango and sticky rice (a whole mango!) and rubies/jellies in sweet coconut milk. Yummm.
PCC Flea Markets
Peter was right. The Pasadena City College Flea Market is bigger than the one on Melrose/Fairfax. The best part is the Music/Collectible records section, a street away from the college. Not cheap! Most of the vinyl cost between $30 and $100. We were lucky we found some gems for five bucks.
What we bought:
- Al Tijuana and his Jewish Brass (we heard some tracks on the Friendly Persuasion show last year)
- Jimmy Smith: Monster
- Dave Brubeck: Jazz Impressions of Eurasia (for the album cover!)
- Ready Steady Go DVD
We’ll be back next month after we get ourselves a turntable
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Comments (4)
Eat pumpkins? Yeah, some of us do. I personally have had pumpkin pie during Thanksgiving and have snacked on roasted pumpkin seeds. Type “pumpkin” into the search box at Epicurious.com and you’ll get 170 results for pumpkin recipes.
– Sean Kennedy
Hi Sean Kennedy – yeah I realized that pumpkins are for eating! My question was with reference to the above ORANGE/Halloween variety.
“My question was with reference to the above ORANGE/Halloween variety.”
So was my answer.
thank you