Dottie's, Nuff Said

I’m not sure why it took so long to talk about Dottie’s True Blue Cafe, but here it is. This restaurant is by far one of the best places to eat in San Francisco. It’s a small place with maybe only ten tables to sit customers. One cook, and usually two waiters/waitresses. On an average day, Dottie’s will have a line out front. The line can take an anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour. Hopefully no longer. So it’s recommended that you plan ahead. In my opinion, it’s worth the wait. 

Dottie’s is mainly a breakfast diner. Serving your simplest meals to your most extravagant. The cook is the owner so you can expect your meal to taste delicious every time! Like I said, there’s only one cook. He’s pretty dang good at what he does as well. If you get the chance, sit at the breakfast bar and watch him make all the meals. Its mesmerizing. 

The best part about all this is it’s not all that expensive! It’s about the average cost for breakfast. I’ll usually spend about $14 bucks on a meal and coffee. I honestly don’t mind at all either considering the portions are well over the amount I can eat. (And I can put it back.)  If you get the chance and have the time to dine at Dottie’s, do it! 


Everyone needs to try it. 

Sun-Mon, Wed-Sat 7:30am–3pm Tue Closed


522 Jones Street  San Francisco, CA 94102-2008
(415) 885-2767

Nom, Nom, Nom Gators!

On my way to carve pumpkins with my friend, my stomach growled at me in despair. I asked where we were going to eat for dinner and she replied, “Just wait and see.” When we arrived in Fremont. I had no idea where we were going. This small little Mederternanian restaurant by the name of Gaters is where she decided to take me. 

I thought that I may have eaten there before but I was still unsure of what to order. The gentleman taking my order suggested that I get the combo plate, which had steak, chicken, and lamb. The plate also came with a side of fresh vegetables consisting of, tomatoes, cucumbers, and bell peppers. Along side with the vegies was savory hummus. The main event of the plate was the slow cooked meat that was lying on top of a bed of delicious rice. The spices were a very flavorful blend and complimented each other perfectly. 

One more thing I can not forget, the pita bread! This little piece of pita brings all of these delicious ingredients together in a little snack wrap of creativity. This small restaurant in the city of Fremont has big flavors coming out of it.

Its an Upside Down Pizza

After doing exactly what my last blog post was about. I realized I had been starring into the cupboards for almost 15 minutes huffing and puffing about how we have nothing to eat. My roommate was getting ready to leave for class, and wasn't trying to help me find anything to munch on.

So instead of starting on my homework like a good student would have done, I jumped online for a recipe using supercook.com. I entered in all the stuff I had in my cupboards and fridge. As I was scrolling down the list of recipes to make, I came across an Upside Down Pizza. I'm instantly drawn to this idea simply because its abnormal from the start. How the heck do you make an upside down pizza? Curiously, I read the ingredients and you bet, I had everything needed.

Procrastination is great when you don't even realize that you're doing it. Avoiding homework I get all the ingredients together, brown the hamburger with the onions and garlic mixed in.

Next, I added the Ragu sauce to the meat. I later ended up adding olives and mushrooms, even though the actual recipe didn't call for them. I just thought it would make things a little more tasty.

Remembering to preheat the oven early made things move along quickly. A layer of meat sauce, cheese, and crescent rolls later we have an almost done upside down pizza.

20 minutes later...

Upside Down Pizza

Yum, yum, yum! Smells great. I wish I could send you a whiff of it. The crescent rolls on top browned just perfectly as you can see. I let it sit for about 10 more minutes just to let the meat sauce thicken up a little.

My second helping :)

It was pretty good. A mixture of pizza taste, spaghetti, and lasagna. Not bad at all.


Thank you Supercook.com. You served me well.

Super who?

     After a long day of workouts, and homework, all I wanted to do was chow on some good food. Being a college student in San Francisco I lack the extra money to go out and get some food made for me. As wonderful as it sounds to be able to go to my favorite sushi restaurant, Sushi Rika; I can't.
    After searching through my cupboards a hundred times and finding absolutely nothing that sounded good, I decided I would lean on the internet for some support.

Hungry.
Tired.
& sick of looking at the same old stuff in my cupboards, I found a very helpful website.

Supercook.com 

     Basically, all you do is enter in ingredients in the side bar that you have in your cupboards, refrigerator or freezer. It does all the searching for you, and will tell you exactly what is possible for you to make with what you already have. So simple! It gives you a list of recipes you can put together and exact directions on how to make it. Don't worry about whether its good or not, Supercook provides reviews for most recipes. Sometimes you can read a review and get more of an idea how to make dishes a little better.

This is great for students! Use what you have, and save money!

What's a Girl to do?

It's a Saturday night, and it's my good friend Julie's birthday. About seven girls are hanging out in Julie's apartment when one girl says she's hungry. We're all eating cake, and cookies, and anything else we all could find in her cupboards. But Genna, the hungry one could not eat any of what we are eating. She has Celiac disease.  Yup, she's one of those gluten free kids. Can't have anything yummy like, wheat, rye and barley. Yes, that includes pizza, pasta, bread, cakes, and cookies. Sucks.
     Well like I was saying, she's a hungry gluten free girl, and nothing in Julie's apartment is quick and easy to fix up for her. Lucky enough, I had been saving some gluten free food in my apartment two floors down for this very occasion. Yay! So a very hungry, determined Genna and I ran downstairs to make her some delicious gluten free food.
     In no time at all, I had water boiling and rice pasta in the water cooking. Minutes later we added the cheese, and viola! Gluten free Mac 'n Cheese. Not bad I would say. She inhaled it, and we were back in the party in no time.

I have other things like pancake mix, cookie mix, bread crumbs (not really bread), and some more rice pasta. All gluten free. I would love to bake some cookies, and tell you all how wonderful they are. I'll have to make that happen. Let me know if you're interested.

Rock on gluten free kids! I support you. :)

Check out some other neat gluten free foods out there!

Celiac Disease?

    Whats up with this "gluten free" business? One reason some people have to eat gluten free food is because of celiac disease. One in 133 Americans have it. The symptoms  can vary, but the reason these people have any symptoms is because they consume gluten. Gluten is found in wheat, rye and barley. You can read more information in detail on celiac disease here.