Last Friday Mariel & I cooked something we were both craving that day… CURRY! Mariel recently had the curry noodles at Surgarbowl & got inspired to make her own version that was absolutely amazing. It was green curry, white fish, bean sprouts, cilantro, coconut milk, & rice noodles. First and for most we boiled water to soak the noodles in. Then we added some vegetable oil with the green curry paste to create our base sauce alongside with coconut milk. With the base all married together, it was time to add the fish, bean sprouts, & cilantro which cooked very fast with the lid on. Roughly around 5-10 minutes of cooking and it was ready to combine the noodles & the sauce/fish together in a bowl to consume. If your looking to get your curry fix, this recipe is for you!
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Here is a photo of the beautiful sky after dinner
Saturday nights are becoming a ritual for Mariel & myself to cook dinner right after I’m done work. This past Saturday night we were really craving some scallops in a simple way without wrapping bacon around it like everyone else does and we decided to sauté them in brown butter/olive oil with salt & paper seasoning. 30 secs on each side to get enough browning without over cooking it… that is a no no!
Now its on to the sides which were pretty easy as well for the prep and cook time. We wanted some greens and startch soo we got some zucchini and potatoes that were seasoned in olive oil and salt & pepper and thrown in the oven to roast. We put the potatoes in 10mins before actually putting in the zucchini to make sure we didn’t over cook them…
We were both really pleased how this meal came out for the simplicity & minimal seasoning that each ingredient stood out on its own without getting masked by over seasoning. Keep it simple!
After the hella fun time last night, a bunch of us decided to go for some brunch in the morning at Sawmill. This buffet had a wide range of items from salads, roast beef, eggs benedict, beacon, chocolate fountain, fruits, & much more and was only $20! This blowed my mind… need to go there more often! We had soo much food there, we started to experiment with the plethora of items to mix together… like BACON & CHOCOLATE! It was surprisingly delightful from the sweetness of the chocolate and the saltiness of the bacon… this is going to be a staple from now on. After brunch I headed to Haven to pickup my newest addition to my collection. These monochrom Be@rbricks are soo dope! Wish I had enough doe to get the 1000%, but not this time…
On Sunday the Foosh fam and I went for a staff din din at Koutouki Taverna. We all like nom’n & drinking soo we went for the Meze which is basically a whole tastings of their famous/good dishes and a couple of bottles of wine. We all were seriously full after the 4th dish… BUT it was all good and I do recommend going there if you have not yet! Here are some photos of the dishes while I was gorging my face full of these delightful dishes…
Last night me and the miss did our ritual saturday night cooking. Since it was super nice out, we decided to kick off spring time BBQ with burgers & fries! For the burgers I made it with normal ground beef & lean ground beef to balance out the fat content. I added several spices from The Keg steak spice, dry thyme, garlic powder, salt & peper, and oatmeal. Then I added onions, two eggs, olive oil, and worchester sauce. Mix throughly to get all the indigents together…of course use your HANDS to get the full experience of making your own burgers!
Mariel wanted to do some yam fries
I made the burgers roughly around 8oz… they were big fatty burgers which I LOVE! I BBQ’d them on mid-high heat for roughly around 5mins on each side with the lid down to cook it throughly. At the last minute I put cheese on some of the burgers and toasted our kaiser buns which was an excellent choice by the miss. This was defiantly a great start to the BBQ season…
Have an EXCELLENT BBQ Season Everyone!
Of course we take photo’s of ourselves…
Keep on Nom’n!
For one of my assignments for journalism we had to do a small introduction of using a multimedia platform of pictures relating to audio. Of course the first thing that came to mind was doing a timeline of cooking or baking something delicious. Soo Mariel & myself baked the moistest, chocolate-ly, deliciouses cake I’ve ever tasted thus far… no joke! The music chosen to be matched with my photo’s was actually Mariel’s suggestion of Oscar Peterson Trio & Lester Young - “Almost Like Being In Love”. Such a perfect match to the baking images because of the soulful sounds of jazz… Here are some of the images!
The baker
The photographer
Keep on Nom’n!
I honestly can eat a sandwich for every meal of the day. Today I was craving a good old croissant sandwich. Soo I took some black forest ham, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, mayo, & fresh cracked peper and went to town on making this AWESOME sandwich. Along side with my sandwich, I had a glass of pomegranate & blueberry juice to get some de-toxins in my body after the weekend. Feels good to eat healthier food than what I was eating… hopefully I can keep up this string of eating healthier!
