Labels: Cajun, dessert, home-cooking, pasta

Next up, we were presented with California rolls (also spelled Canifornia rolls, just to be confusing). These were delicious. The best sushi I've ever had. This sushi had the perfect synthesis of ingredients - the crab and avocado blended together beautifully. I'm also delighted by the orange colour of the roe, which makes a wonderful crackling sound in your mouth.

Now come the gyoza or dumplings. They had been nicely burnt. Yes, we have discovered that things can be nicely burnt. It added a nice crispiness and slight chargrilled flavour.


We also got some rice to accompany our meal. Jen ordered beef rice and I got plain rice.

Our last little main dish was our personal favourite. Eggplant with a sweet sauce, topped with cheese. I could happily eat this every day. Perfect - sweet, savory, squishy and just the right amount of cheese.

Now if you think we stopped there, you'd be wrong and you really don't know us well enough. Dessert? Hello! Since we love our green tea stuff, we went all out on the maccha front.

Firstly, green tea cake. Delicious. Sweet and moist, filled with cream and red bean and topped with chocolate.

We also ordered our favourite dessert - a mountain of green tea ice topped with red beans, a ball of green tea icecream and rice balls. This is a dessert to be shared. Even I agree with this. Jenny and I embarked upon an excavation, quickly quarrying deep into the mountain (they should bury a surprise inside). We've decided the ice looks like a volcano, the red bean being the lava. The icecream blob is a monster, which ended up cowering on my side of the volcano to hide from Jenny. We've decided that the rice balls are "gelatinous balls of nothing". Really. I like the squishy texture but they don't taste like anything. We were shivering by the time we finished eating. Big cold mountain. What wasn't devoured had melted into a green puddle. This mystical mountain doesn't last long.


And here lies the aftermath of the forces of nature known as Lauren and Jenny (minus the two dessert dishes).


I love food. This meal was incredibly satisfying. If you don't believe me, you should have heard the strange, ginormous and deep rumble of a burp I did upon returning home. Justina you would have been so proud. If only you were here to hear it. You're never here to hear them. I'm like the tree that falls in the forest.

Labels: dessert, Japanese

Jenny ordered the Khao Rice. I forget the description but it had chicken, mung beans and peanut among other things. I am oh so informative.

After sitting in Khao until they kicked us out (closing time), Jenny and I headed to Michel's Patisserie after I saw their sign. I'd been wanting to go there after seeing it on the bus in Newmarket every day. Something with the word patisserie in their name has to be good. I wasn't wrong. They had an impressive and tasty display of cakes, tarts, brownies and cheesecakes. It's a pity they don't do tastings like gelato. How cool would that be? I can dream...

I decided upon this....

This is Jenny's cake. It had a name starting with a C and ending with torte. I'll just call it a chocolate torte with almond and apricot. Delicious and moist with thick rich ganache. The tiramisu won though.

As I write this I'm drinking hot chocolate and munching on banana and walnut loaf. I wanted to try a piece before Dad devoured the rest. It's a reasonable fear. He ate like half a loaf in one day! That's my excuse for eating yet more cake like food. Sugar, sugar, my terrible f(r)iend. My stomach already hates me so it's not gonna do much worse. I think there's something wrong with my digestion. My stomach hasn't been right in weeks. I don't know how to fix it. I'm trying to find the perfect eating regime, but have yet to appease the growling devil. Tell me, dear stomach, what shall I do? Most of you will look at me and say, "Uh, Lauren stop eating tiramisu and banana loaf, that might help." Maybe. But I don't know if that is the source of my problem. You see, even when I am not eating such delicacies, it still moans at me. I eat vegies, I eat fruit, I eat yoghurt, half my food is low-fat. I don't eat crazy things every day. I am somewhat disciplined. Maybe it is just going through a phase. I should just respect it and let it get on with it. I really should treat it better though. Do you know what I would really like lately? Out of season fruit like strawberries and raspberries. Sure, they have berries at the store but I doubt they are sweet and ripe. Oh, LA and your Farmer's Market on Fairfax, I miss you. Ripe golden raspberries in the middle of winter. Gotta love that Californian climate.

Labels: chocolate, dessert, Thai

Okay, so it doesn't look particularly beautiful here especially not against my retro plate. Actually, it looks kinda pasty. This is the not quite as good looking calzone. It has a few holes. But don't let it's exterior fool you. It is tasty. It really does look huge when you compared it to the size of your plate. Now you can also compare it to the size of my belly for it is gone.

That is it for doughy delights for this week. Tomorrow I'm back to stirfries. I need a good plate of fried vegies.

Labels: home-cooking, Italian

Labels: breakfast