LA Street Food Truck Fest and Free Milkshakes February 10, 2010
Posted by Dorothy in information, sweet eats.Tags: dessert trucks, food trucks, LA food trucks, los angeles street food fest, valentine's 2010
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This Saturday, February 13, is LA’s first ever official street food fest! LA’s most popular food trucks are getting together, on one street, for one delicious day of eating in the streets!
The trucks will be offering up a ‘tasting menu’ with small bites of their most popular dishes and even day-of-event exclusive items! Items are $1 – $5 so you can try as much as you want without getting a stomache from eating too many full-sized entrees!
Check out the wide variety of participating trucks here. There’s something for everyone – pizza, pastramis, brazilian food, pancakes, kabobs, indian, bbq, and dessert! The dessert trucks I am most excited for are:
Coolhaus – architecturally inspired ice-cream sandwiches. Pick a cookie, and then pick an ice-cream to create your dream ice-cream sandwich! Wide variety of ice-cream flavors include your favorite flavors as well as some fresh ones – lambrusco, apple pie, blood orange, and earl grey tea! Pair any of those with your choice of cookies, including brioche, chocolate chip, and chocolate.
Sweets Truck – a mobile bakeshop and gourmet coffeehouse. Hand-picked sweets and rotating desserts! This is a sugar rush you can feel good about – Sweets Truck offers organic milk, sugar, eco-friendly paper goods, and a variety of vegan items! Menu items include red velvet cookies, Auntie Em’s famous cupcakes, pudding “shooters”, Babycakes NYC cookie sandwiches, and a fun variety of old-fashioned candies and sweets.
The Popshop – ice pops reinvented. 100% natural, handmade ice pops! All ice pops are vegan and they even use compostable wrappers! Flavors change each week (and they welcome suggestions!) and include: Pumpkin Pie, Avocado Vanilla, Mojito, Bananas Foster..
Along with the food vendors there will also be local designers and artists in the Valentine’s Marketplace! Eat, shop, be merry!
LA Street Food Fest (February 13)
LA CENTER STUDIOS (Enter on 500 S. Beaudry Ave, LA, CA 90017)
11am – 5pm
And Free Food Alert! Free milkshakes at Ruby’s Diner this Valentine’s weekend! Hugs, Kisses, and Shakes!
So I think I met myself from the future… September 20, 2009
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… not really but totally kind of! Well I didn’t meet her but I know she’s out there! PROOF BELOW:

Bakery owned by my Future Self in Korea
THAT photo above is a shot of the entrance to the Dorothy Ann bakery in Korea!! DOROTHY. ANN. BAKERY. in KOREA.
and its HOT PINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot believe someone beat me to it and opened a hot pink bakery in korea named after myself. I have forever been wanting to open a hot pink bakery named Dorothy Ann!! And I’ve always wanted my bakery to be in Korea because I wish I was Korean! Absolutely cannot believe that there can be another person SO similar to moi but so much more accomplished.
Then I realized it has to be ME from the future!! I mean, that’s the only explanation for the existence of this bakery. It looks exactly like the one that’s been sitting in my head! It IS the one that’s been sitting in my head.
I hope she’s married to a korean pop star.
Dorothy Ann Sandwich
Seoul, Korea
Los Angeles Dessert Tour: Gourmet Churros on the Boardwalk August 3, 2009
Posted by Dorothy in chocolate, dessert tour, information, sweet eats.Tags: chocolate, churros, gourmet churros, los angeles dessert tour, los angeles desserts, santa monica, third street promenade, xurro
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Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California, is a sunny wonderland offering blocks of ocean, shops, and most of all, delicious eats. Its the ultimate place for some fun under the sun!

Santa Monica, CA
A recent addition to the overflowing dessert shops lining up and around Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade is Xooro, home to the most exciting premium spanish fritters I have ever encountered. This is a brilliant concept. Bascially, its an ubergourmet churro. A Xooro (pronounced SURE-oh) is a filled (chocolate, caramel, etc) churro that is coated in chocolate, caramel, etc.

Xooro has a wide variety of fillings and coatings to choose from, such as Maple Bacon (churro filled with dulce de leche then dipped in white chocolate and coated in bacon pieces), Raspberry (churro filled with raspberry filling then dipped in white chocolate and coated with white chocolate sprinkles), and the Triple Chocolate (self-explantory). There is also The Original (also available as Chocolate Original), which is a churro filled with custard, and The Original Gluten Free.
We tried three different xooros:

Missippi, Jordan's Special, and Tortoise
Tortoise: The Tortoise is filled with dulce de leche, dipped in chocolate, and then coated with crushed pecans. It was delicious, but not as good as it looks. The dulche de leche filling can definitely be better, but the chocolate is very milk chocolate and the pecans and churro were satisfyingly crunchy.
Missippi: The Missippi is filled with peanut butter filling, dipped in chocolate, and then coated in crushed peanuts. Again, not as good as it looks, but still delicious. The peanut butter filling was more like straight up peanut butter; I think it would be a lot better if it was filled with a sweeter, thinner concoction, like peanut butter frosting. Also satisfyingly crunchy.
Jordan’s Special: This one is my favorite out of the three. Jordan’s Special is filled with Nutella, dipped in white chocolate, and drizzled with dark chocolate. I really liked the white chocolate here; the sweetness really balanced the bitterness of the dark chocolate and the Nutella. And the Nutella filling added the perfect hint of hazelnut flavor to complement the churro.

And don’t feel guilty about eating these! These churros are fried in rice bran oil, so they are slightly healthier than other churros. If you’re not in the mood for a Xooro, there are also a variety of cold and hot drinks, like Spanish Hot Chocolate or Dulce de Leche.

All in all, a very fun place to visit for dessert in Los Angeles. And its right next to the beach! Xooro has two locations:
Xooro
125 Broadway
Santa Monica, California 90401
(310) 260-2919
8360 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, California 90069
(323) 951-9592












