Restaurant: Kraftsmen Baking

4100 Montrose Blvd
Houston, TX 77006

Every Sunday, big poppa and I have been trying to make it a habit to head out and do a round over at the Memorial park trails. As stated in the previous post, runner I am not. So everyone usually does the five minute pity walk with me and then sooner or later, they all take off while I struggle to finish. Haha. It's all good. I don't care. I hate being the person who holds people back from anything and everything. I have accepted coming in last every single time with grace. And a super red face. My fave part is when we're all done, we stand together, kicking at the ground, throwing out ideas about where we should go eat. Because that's what it's all about. Making sure that you do what you can to make that work-out obsolete, almost like it never even happened. On this particular day, I suggested Kraftsmen Baking since I had been wanting to go there for brunch with big poppa for a while now. Kraftsmen Baking is a high quality artisan bread company that supplies many Houston restaurants their product. If you know me, you'll know that I simply LIVE for carbs, especially in the form of bread. The restaurant itself is small and quaint. The kitchen seems tiny. It took a long time for some of our food to come out. I can't say that my croissant sandwich was the best I've ever had. It was average. But I would mos def go back and try their other stuff. It started raining whales and elephants as we were leaving. The nutrition Gods must have been very upset with us.

Event: SCOPE Fun Run

I don't do marathons, unless it's on TV. Hah. I'm not a runner and prolly will never ever be even slightly close to being an avid jogger, let alone runner. But, I never say no when someone asks me to do it. Especially when you have the option to WALK. So I recently woke myself up early one Saturday morning to do this 5K walk/jog/run for Colorectal Oncology and Prevention. The person who organized our group together recently lost his manager to this disease. Come to think of it, my uncle is a colon cancer survivor. So this walk/jog/run thing had some meaning to it for a few of us. Maybe I should have actually put effort into getting pledges instead of paying just the registration fee. Oh well. So what did I learn from all of this? That I can walk three miles in exactly sixty minutes. Twenty minute mile baby!

There were a LOT of these butt paste packets. An overly enthusiastic Sponsor possibly?

Gastron Om Nom: Fried Rice

My fried rice is ... super unhealthy. When you bring Chinese sausage into the mix, it's all downhill from there. Fried rice is one of those dishes you're almost forced to make when you've got a lot of rice leftover. Just start throwing whatever you want into it and voila!

Daily Shots: Tiramisu

Tiramisu is one of my most fave desserts. So yums! Big poppa and I were trolling around H-Mart, getting stuff to make crawfish as well as picking up some of that Toreore garlic fried chicken, and I saw a this package of tiramisu cakes and decided that I had to try them. So I bought them. The tiramisu cakes along with the the rest of the groceries ended up in big poppa's cousins kitchen, where of course, I forgot about them and left them there. In a house with four guys, you never EVER leave food there unless you don't want it anymore. When big poppa stopped by a week later, the tiramisu cakes were all gone. Consumption time = less than thirty minutes. It was about two weeks later before I was back at the cousins house. Laying on the coffee table were the empty wrappers from the Tiramisu cakes. Great. Thanks guys. They made sure to let me know that they were really good. And that they would like more. Hah!