| Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| Lining Our Stomachs For Frozen Italian Delights |
At last, I have food porn to entertain you all with. You will have to excuse the bluriness of some of the pictures. I admit that I am a crappy photographer who has not yet learn to probably handle her camera. I'm lazy. I will learn in time. With my excuses out of the way, I bring you today's fooding.
Jenny, Crystal and I headed down to a Japanese place. I can't remember the name which is why I am not a food journalist. I should really start making a point of writing this stuff down in a notebook. Anyways....
They do some great sushi.
The one one of the front right was very unique - pesto, sun-dried tomato and avocado. Sushi - Italian style. I'm a sucker for anything with pesto but y'know it wasn't like the best sushi ever or anything. But it totally gets thumbs up for creativity.
The sushi on the top right is chicken with a sweet sauce. Quite tasty. On the bottom left is my favourite inari. Mmm. Sweet rice in bean curd. Yum. On the top left is teriyaki eel sushi! I'm so happy I finally got to try some eel and I am not sorry. It was delicious. I loved the texture so soft. Combined with the teriyaki sauce, it actually had somewhat of a sweet taste. I could definitely have eaten more of this. Perhaps I should order a whole meal of teriyaki eel next time I go for Japanese.
Jen and I also shared this dish of chicken katsu curry. This is another thing I've been wanting to try since I saw it on The Girl Who Ate Everything. It was good. Not like "Oh, I want to eat this every day of my life" good but generally satisfying. It wasn't hot which is good because I can't handle anything less than the mildest of mild dishes. It reminded me of a Indian curry my mother cooks but less spicy. As far as katsu goes though, I still maintain you cannot beat Nishiki's chicken katsu with miso sauce. Actually, so far I have yet to try any Japanese as good as Nishiki. Crystal we must take you there sometime.
After lunch, we headed down to the Ferry Building to fulfill our gelato cravings at Valentino's. I love gelato. So smooth and creamy. I sampled a few new flavours including bubblegum (which tasted just like strawberry bubblegum!) before deciding on my usual chocolate and Italian cookies and cream. The chocolate was dark, rich and delicious as always. The cookies and cream was mostly cream which was good because the cream is the part I enjoyed - really tasty. But the cookies were a little strange. I didn't like them. It's really hard to explain how it tasted but it was kinda sweet and plasticky. I think it's about the only thing I've seen Valentino's do wrong. I guess gelato is their specialty not cookies. They do serve things like sandwiches and soup though. Jen and I couldn't really figure out why you'd want to order those things unless it was to line your stomach before loading it with gelato goodness.Labels: dessert, Japanese |
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| Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| Thai Flame |
It's been awhile so I thought I would finally getting around to making my post from Saturday night. A group of friends and I (Linda, Matt, Crystal, David, Jenny and her Matt) went out for dinner to Thai Flame. I had a great time hanging out with friends but that's not what this blog is about. It's about food. I don't eat my friends so they can take a backseat.
Naturally, I ordered something with peanut sauce. I forget what it was actually called but it was vegies and tofu with peanut sauce. It was pretty good but probably the worst kinda praram dish I have had. I found the peanut sauce too water. It needed to be a lot thicker. It looks thick on top but quickly ends up being like a peanut soup, which is kinda hard to coat the vegies in. The mushrooms weren't as flavoursome as I would have liked. Nothing seems to compare to the mushrooms at Khao now. Also I did not like the addition of celery because celery is gross and horribly crunchy. No amount of cooking seems to soften celery. I wasn't a big fan of the corn either. This all sounds very negative but anything with peanut is always still quite tasty.
For dessert, I ordered the chocolate mud cake. Next time I go back I will try the deep fried icecream. The chocolate mud cake was delicious. Perfectly moist and not crumbly. I'm kinda having difficulty remembering it clearly now. It was topped with a flood of rich chocolate sauce and served with cream (which I scooped into the chocolate sauce because chocolate goes well with everything desserty). Reminiscing makes me want to eat chocolate cake.... yum.
 Here are the banana rolls and vanilla icecream with what looks like caramel sauce that Jenny and her Matt consumed.
This is the dessert Linda and her Matt shared - passionfruit cheesecake. Doesn't it look delicious. Linda graciously offered to pose with it. Isn't she sweet too?
 And here is a waitress carrying a flaming chicken. I bet you gotta have sure feet to carry one of those. Imagine the kind of accidents you could have...
And that's about all I have to say about that. Labels: chocolate, dessert, Thai |
| posted by Lauren @ 12:34 PM |
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| Tuesday, September 05, 2006 |
| 50 Things To Eat Before You Die |
I saw this list awhile ago but since I have nothing else to post, here ya go.
BBC's 50 Things To Eat Before You Die
1/Fresh fish
Yes, unless you mean "I just caught this like two seconds ago" fresh. One of my goals in life is to someday eat fresh fish at the Tsujiki Fish Market in Tokyo.
2/Lobster
3/Steak
4/Thai food
5/Chinese food
6/Ice cream
7/Pizza
8/Crab
9/Curry
10/Prawns
11/Moreton Bay Bugs
I'm pleased to know that this is not actually a bug but a lobster.
12/Clam Chowder
It's probably a tragedy that I went to New England and didn't try lobster but I'll do it next time.
13/Barbecues
14/Pancakes
lol. You know I've done this one!
15/Pasta
16/Mussels
Ew, ew and more ew.
17/Cheesecake
18/Lamb
19/Cream tea
One day I will have a tea party and we all shall have cream tea.
20/Alligator
21/Oysters
I think I've eaten oysters. Can't remember what they taste like though. I'm put of trying them because I don't particularly like stuff that comes from a shell.
22/Kangaroo
23/Chocolate
24/Sandwiches
25/Greek food
I may have eaten Greek food but I don't have any distinct memories of it.
26/Burgers
27/Mexican food
28/Squid
29/American diner breakfast
I've probably eaten a diner style breakfast but apart from Denny's which I don't think counts, I've never eaten breakfast in an American diner.
30/Salmon
31/Venison
It's possible I've eaten venison too. I did go to a deer farm but I can't remember so I won't count it.
32/Guinea pig
I'm not sure I can see this being fulfilled. My friend used to have a pet guinea pig and I babysat it once and I don't think I could eat a guinea pig without thinking of him.
33/Shark
34/Sushi
35/Paella
I've been meaning to try and cook paella....
36/Barramundi
37/Reindeer
Wouldn't this be a fabulous Xmas dish? haha.
38/Kebab
39/Scallops
40/Australian meat pie
I'm counting this despite the fact I haven't had an Australian meat pie because NZ meat pies are pretty much the same thing. Perhaps they are even better. Why let the Aussies win?
41/Mango
42/Durian fruit
Must prepare some kind of fumigation system before I do this. Possibly eat it outdoors.
43/Octopus
44/Ribs
45/Roast beef
46/Tapas
One day I will eat tapas in Spain. Yum.
47/Jerk chicken/pork
48/Haggis
I'm not feeling a great desire to eat haggis despite it's place on the list.
49/Caviar
50/Cornish Pastry
My score is 31/50. Not bad but then most of these are pretty easy. I have a list somewhere of really strange foods to try. Maybe I'll dig that up sometime when I have nothing to post. Let me know what your scores are. |
| posted by Lauren @ 4:30 PM |
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| Monday, September 04, 2006 |
| How Healthy Are You? |
Not much too report on the fascinating food front. I ate some fairly good stuff on Michael's birthday but I didn't get any pictures so it's not really worth mentioning.
Instead I will post a quiz.
| You Are 68% Healthy |  Your diet is quite healthy, but you don't too crazy with what you eat.You know how to eat what's good for you, but you're also careful not to deprive yourself. |
See, I'm not unhealthy! These foods I post about are only 'sometimes' foods. I mainly exist on a diet of toast, honey, maple syrup, oatmeal, rice, bananas, mushroom, broccoli, cauliflower and tofu. |
| posted by Lauren @ 7:26 PM |
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