I've eaten quite a few good things in this last week or so but I have an unfortunate lack of pictures for some of it. Noteably the Japanese lunch I ate with Jenny. I will take a picture when I next go back there. I ordered the unagi don which was eel cooked in miso, soy and lemon juice on a bed of rice. It was pretty good and because it wasn't doused in teriyaki sauce, I could sample the taste of eel which actually tasted a lot like a type of fish. Jenny ordered the sashimi don which was half cabbage, half rice and a bit of sashimi. It was in the hugest bowl so you can only imagine how much cabbage Jen ate.
Anyways, as those who were present at the occassion know, I had a little fondue shindig last weekend. I made some homemade pizza.
This is the dough making process. It's the best part of making pizza.
I didn't get some full pizza shots because I was too slow but here's my plate. I was trying to be a little experimental with my pizza flavours but they didn't really turn out nearly as good as I had planned. The satay chicken was a bit dry and the satay sauce went kinda hard. The shrimp and surimi sweet chili was okay but the sauce went a bit hard on that as well. The pesto was also a bit dry and needed more flavour. The only pizza I found successful was the much more Italian style meatlovers pizza. I guess I should stick to what I know. I guess you can't go wrong when you smother a pizza in sauce, cheese and meat. Next time, I'm just gonna make a bunch of meatlovers pizzas.
The dessert was my favourite part despite the fact I fried my tongue right and good. The fondue set Jen got me for my birthday last year was ultra-powerful, running on methylated spirits rather than the meagre little candle some have. We poured a ton of Hershey's chocolate syrup in. Justina sweetened it up a little bit more when she dropped a bit of dark chocolate in while attempting to make chocolate chocolate fondue. We dipped strawberries, apple, pear, orange, banana, donuts and marshmallows into the fondue until we were way too overloaded with sweetness.
It was a good night. My apologies to my girlies who couldn't make it. Hopefully you can make it to my next great shindig.
Labels: fondue, Italian, pizza |
I'm so jealous!!! *drools at the sight and thought of the night's menu*