Review: Madame Chou Chou

This past weekend also coincided with the start of Dine LA, a time when poor starving college students can indulge in extravagance. Don't have $60 to fork over for a meal at Fogo de Chao? That's okay - just go to Fogo de Chao at lunch during dineLA week and you can experience the all-you-can-eat Brazilian barbecue goodness for only $28!

Somehow, we wound up inside Madame Chou Chou.

Yearbook Staffer

A few days ago, I was offered a position of photographer for the El Rodeo yearbook. I longed for the opportunity to improve my photography skills, which has long since stagnated. I yearned for more opportunities to shoot.

Review: Father's Office

We had been talking about this place for over a year, ever since we heard about it last summer. Craft beers, heavenly sweet potato fries, and the juicy Office Burger. We couldn't wait to try it out. Only problem was that you had to be 21 years old to get into Father's Office.

Banana Bread with Dark Chocolate and Pecans

Though it has been a relatively mild summer in Los Angeles, the heat from the oven still manages to escalate the temperature in my kitchen to barely tolerable levels. But it is worth it. The smell of fresh banana bread radiating from the oven - warm, summery, and sweet - was the perfect breakfast pick-me-up.