large cheese fries @Reading Terminal

From Barb & Suzy's, the Amish place that does the fried veggies and has the hot dogs. If you go, the Amish are only at RTM Wed through Sat.
The fries weren't as crispy as I would have liked; the bacon was delicious.

pierogie from the Pierogie Kitchen in Roxborough

These pierogie are fully cooked then frozen, so I defrost and then throw them in a pan with butter and caramelized onions. Menupages link including the lunch menu and frozen costs/dozen. I would like to try some of the dessert ones, but haven't gotten around to those or the golabki (stuffed cabbage rolls) yet.

Despite my love of bacon, I don't like their pierogie with bacon inside; the texture of the bacon bits is disruptive in combination with the potato/pasta.

morimoto

Morimoto
We ordered the chef's choice of sashimi+sushi for ~$150.

chocolate pot de crème: chocolate custard, caramelized banana, whipped cream, chocolate ice cream

black sesame mousse cake: flourless chocolate cake, dark chocolate ganache

banana cake

Cordon Rose Banana Cake from Rose Levy Berenbaum's The Cake Bible. In the iterations that I've done, I have occasionally left out the sour cream and the lemon zest if I didn't happen to have it around. Also if you don't need the cake to be flat for layering or frosting, I wouldn't bother with the cake strip to keep it flat because I think the texture is better when it's a little domy.

candied bacon

Brown sugar, pinch of cayenne, oven at 400. I did the brown sugar mixture on both sides of the bacon, and a lot of the melted sugar dripped off the bottom (damn gravity), it would have been less messy if I had just put it on the topside of the bacon.

chocolate cake w/ whipped cream ganache

Cake recipe = master chocolate cake from the four in Cook's Illustrated's Best Recipe. Ganache from the same book. I think I have to stop with the ganaches bc they get a little too pasty to really frost with plus I am killing my coworkers slowly w/ the cholesterol content.

lemon cherry scones

Everyone was hoping the cherries were chocolate.