Food Happiness

1. Fresh strawberries with blueberry yogurt
2. A freshly baked baguette, crusty on the outside and soft inside, eaten with cultured butter
3. Baci and amaretto gelato (especially from Vaccaro's in Baltimore)
4. Enjoying dimsum at a busy, lively restaurant
5. Taro, red bean, or green bean ice found in Taiwan
6. Fresh fruit tart
7. Sashimi from a fish caught a few hours prior
8. Fresh picked apple from an apple tree, eaten underneath that tree
9. A glass of iced coffee on a hot summer day
10. A piece of hot-off-the-grill medium-rare steak
11. Tomatoes
12. Amaretto biscotti
13. A glass of iced chrysanthemum tea on a hot summer day
14. A piece of Scharffen Berger cacao mocha after dinner
15. Pineapples
16. A bowl of hot noodle soup made with some kind of chewy noodle
17. A scoop of Maeda-en green tea ice cream with a spoonful sweet red beans on the top
18. Walking into a patisserie and eyeing all the desserts on display
19. Having a hot cup of coffee in my hand on a cold winter day
20. A slice of choclate mousse cake... made by my friend Kristi
21. Fried stinky tofu, a Taiwanese specialty
22. Cream puffs (especially from Beard Papa's)