Our Top Two Guilty Pleasures

My husband and I have always had a special place in our tummies for ice cream. For us "there is always room for ice cream!" We try to eat healthy throughout the week but one thing we just can't get off of our weekly diet is ice cream, frozen yogurt, or gelato. It is kinda our thing. We ate ice cream the first time we were out together site seeing when I studied in Mexico, we had it every time we saw each other during our long distance relationship, and we were even eating ice cream when Antonio purposed! We like to try new places and compare, we have become ice cream experts. We definitely have some reeaallllly good places around here! Recently as I mentioned in a previous post I found a new flavor of ice cream at our market.  It's kind of expensive for a small pint but it's still less than us going to get ice cream at an ice cream shop. So here is our new guilty pleasure "lemon cookie!!!"

Our other guilty pleasure was found once me moved to this apartment. My husband loves gummies. These gummies are locally made, I believe, and are organic and vegetarian...which is kinda weird to think about for a candy but that's what it says :) They are pretty yummy and we usually end up buying some at least once a week. 

Anyone else have a guilty pleasure?

My local market

I am absolutely in love with my local market that is located just across the street from my apartment. I am very lucky to have a fresh local produce, fish, cheese, and a butcher meat market super close, all within 1 min walking distance. But it amazes me each time I walk into my produce market how much variety they have and how fresh things are all the time. There are so many different types and colors of fruits and vegetables that I didn't even know existed. There are rows of different potatoes, mushrooms, squash, peppers, apples, berries, peaches, pears, tomatoes, green and PURPLE asparagus, melons, lettuce, fresh herbs etc, etc, etc....You can find organic or non-organic and locally farmed or imported. They also carry a lot of specialty items such as sauces, jellies, grains, cooking oils (have you ever heard of using hazelnut oil?), breads, and locally farmed eggs and dairy products.  This is also the market that helped us find Three Twins, Lemon Cookie Ice cream, which has become our new favorite!
 I don't know what we would do if we lived farther away from this market while still living in the bay area because I think I am pretty attached to my market haha!...as you can probably tell because I am writing a whole blog post just on this market! 

It's hard to show what it really looks like inside and the variety that they have but here are a few of the rows of produce.

Wonderful, Wonderful Ice Cream!!!

Well, here again is another post about ice cream! Antonio and I love to go out for ice cream and we found a new favorite in San Francisco. It's name is Humphry Solcombe and it has many wonderful unique flavors. My favorites were Fluffernutter (marshmallow creme and peanut butter, anything with peanut butter is a favorite!) and their famous "Secret Breakfast" flavor!! Yummy, it was good!

San Francisco with some new friends

Last Friday I went to San Francisco with a couple of new friends. I met Tiffany at a church we visited during Christmas. She invited me to go with one of her friends to check out a few places in the city. We went to an Italian bakery, Italian delicatessen for some really good salami, a restaurant for chicken and of course... homemade ice cream. It was nice to get out and hang out with some girls in the area.

COCO Swirl

                Here is a wonderful yogurt shop in Walnut Creek we just had to try!!! It is self serve machines and you can choose your toppings. You pay by the ounce.

Ice cream, Ice cream, we scream for Ice cream!

As some of you may know my husband and I love ice cream here are some great shops we have been to. What is nice is that we have been able to see and eat at great little small, locally owned restaurants and shops. I really like that about this area. The Ici shop has great homemade ice cream and new flavors all the time. We have been there about 3 times since we have been here...well 3 times out of 4 days. That is how bad we are with ice cream. Today we tried a place called Lush. It has gelato and it was awesome! It was so smooth, wonderful strong flavors, and actually very unique flavors! So here are two pictures of the places.