So to make up for it I gave myself an excellent Saturday. I started out at the Farmer's Market. Tasty samples of the produce and a quick perusal led to purchase of a giant bag of oranges for $2.50. Then I went to get some food. The hot food area is always interesting. I decided to pass on the amazing cookies I've written about before and instead sampled amazingly tasty afghani bread and spreads, as well as Fava Bean Humus, some regular old humus, and finally discovered a completely NEW food! There was a cart selling something called Pupusas.
I was immediately intrigued. Show me a new food of almost any variety and I'm good to go for a test drive. Though I thought before I spend the $3 on my own I should check out a finished product. I waited for an order to come out and it looked oddly like a thick Naan, along with some slaw and sauce. I thus assumed that the meat and cheese must be inside. I approached and ordered a chicken and cheese variety. I watched as the woman in the back assembled. She took a lump of pre-mixed dough, working in my selected filling until it was roughly a 6 inch diameter disc approximately 3/4 inch thick. This was put on the griddle and cooked. It came out a few minutes later piping hot and on the plate they added slaw and sauce. Now the Pupusa was basically a thick corn tortilla with a center filling of chicken and cheese. It was hot, and amazingly tasty. The sauce I noticed was a little thin and watery when they spooned it on. Now I need to disabuse you of the idea that thin and watery is a bad thing. That only describes the consistency, and anything thicker would have been harder to eat and much less tasty. The sauce was amazingly flavorful and soaked into the bread making an excellent dish. The slaw turned out to be something called curtido, a lightly fermented cabbage slaw. The hot/cold contrast of the pupusas and slaw was amazing.
OK, after that amazing food the rest of the day sounds kinda boring. So real quick:
I took the bus to the LEgion of Honor Museum to see the Cartier exhibit. It was beatiful, well displayed, interesting information and INCREDIBLE jewels. They had a very wide range and some of Elizabeth Taylor's, as well as Grace Kelly's pieces. There was also a strong collection of Art Deco clocks. All in all very nice. I popped downtown and stopped by the Comic Art Museum which had a very interesting look at Batman through the years. Then I stopped by my favorite reading spot in the city, the Yerba Buena Gardens. I listened to the end of a Jazz concert there and then read for a few hours.
Color me CONTENTED.
