little skillet

Binko and I had lunch at the coolest place in SOMA, Little Skillet.

I have been DYING for a real southern place to open up in SF for YEARS! Although Little Skillet's owners have the southern style BlueJay Cafe and Farmer Brown's. I think LS is much better.

The fried chicken was perfect and a great price, $7.99 for a box o chix, biscuits and a side of your choice.

I love the al fresco dining experience too!

two french styled macaroons

Kinako and Chocolate rum macaroons were on the menu yesterday. Macaroons are sorta easy but a bit of a pain to make. You gotta make sure your discs are evenly matched and thoroughly dry before putting them in the oven.

My chocolate rums were Parisian style and my kinakos were Nancy style.

When it was all done, they were a bit too crunchy, but I left them for a day to moisten and now they are perfect!

ici on a cold day

I really want to like this ice cream shop. It's cute and I LOVE their hand rolled, chocolate ladled, flaky, organic cones. I have tried about a dozen of their flavors, from weird to plain and the only one that was ever great was the caramel. It was seriously better than the salted caramel at Bi-Rite. But its rarely served. I got the crunchy peanut butter and the chocolate, the flavors were bland. I also tried the vanilla bean shortbread cookie. The flavor was great, but it was undercooked!